What the Issue Is

What We Discovered

We only included covers of Novels, Anthologies, Collections, and Omnibuses. We excluded art in Magazines and stand-alone novellas, since we already cover that in our regular Pro Artists page. We excluded art that only appeared in fanzines since it wouldn't qualify for the Professional Artist award. We only included art that appeared in at least one English-language publication. We excluded anything that only appeared in non-genre publications. We limited the list to artists who had at least three different covers published during this time. We only included art where ISFDB had a url for an image.

This still produced a list of 800+ different works of art by 148 different artists, which is what you'll find below. If we merged our regular list into this one, the result would be about 1,000 works and 200 artists. For dedicated fans, this may be exactly what's wanted, but we worry that this is way too big for most folks.

What We'd Like to Know

Boxed sets appear as covers.

Artists with pen names are not merged together.

The lightbox sometimes stops working before the last image on Chrome and Opera, seems to be complete in Firefox and Edge.

We don't fix errors in ISFDB data.



The Soldier Rise of the Jain



Nightwise Laytham Ballard / Nightwise



The Brass God The Gates of the World



Fallen Gods The Tides of War



Broken Skies A New Dawn



Hired Gun Machete System Bounty Hunter



Liberation The Bad Company



Degeneration The Ghost Squadron



Impersonation The Ghost Squadron



Recollection The Ghost Squadron



Bourne The Ascension Myth



The Christmas Invasion Doctor Who Target Novelizations



Rose Doctor Who Target Novelizations



Divided Souls The Soul Guide



Soul Ascendance The Soul Guide



Dark Triumph His Fair Assassin



Mortal Heart His Fair Assassin



Friendly Fire The Bastard Legion



The Serpent The Immortal Dealers



The Guardian The Immortal Dealers



Runebinder The Runebinder Chronicles



The Tree The Wrath & Athenaeum



Hunted Haven Realm



Charmed Haven Realm



Cursed Haven Realm



Claimed Haven Realm



Entangled Haven Realm



Thief Rebel Heart



Under the Bones Shadows in the Water



Brief Cases The Dresden Files



The Thief Black Dagger Brotherhood



Blood Fury Black Dagger Legacy



Wind Rider Tales of a New World



Elisha Daemon The Dark Apostle



Restore Me Juliette / Shatter Me



Highland Dragon Master Dawn of the Highland Dragon



Prophet Allie's War / Bridge & Sword



Dragon Allie's War / Bridge & Sword



Burn Bright Alpha and Omega



Uncharted Arcane America



Oblivion Starfire (Steve White and collaborators)



Black Triumph The Alien Resistance



Castellan Grey Knights



Knightsblade Imperial Knights



Neogenesis Theo Waitley



Oath of a Warrior Legends of the Fenian Warriors



Trial of a Warrior Legends of the Fenian Warriors



Carnival of Fear Creepiest Show on Earth



Carnival of Nightmares Creepiest Show on Earth



Demonslayer The Psychonaut Trilogy



Divided We Stand What's Left of My World



Quietus The Unity



Terminus The Unity



Firebrand Green Rider



A Veil of Spears The Song of Shattered Sands



Harbor Seven Sisters of Silverleaf



Hounded The Iron Druid Chronicles



Hexed The Iron Druid Chronicles



Denied Luna Lake



Scourged The Iron Druid Chronicles



Triple Threat Justice of the Covenant



Double Down Justice of the Covenant



Single Shot Justice of the Covenant



Page Protector of the Small



Squire Protector of the Small



Lady Knight Protector of the Small



Ash Alt Apocalypse



Lit Alt Apocalypse



Torrent Alt Apocalypse



Affliction Alt Apocalypse



Undefeated World EMP Survivor Series



Legacy The Traveler (Tom Abrahams)



Mortal Engines Hungry City Chronicles / Mortal Engines Quartet



Predator's Gold Hungry City Chronicles / Mortal Engines Quartet



Infernal Devices Hungry City Chronicles / Mortal Engines Quartet



A Darkling Plain Hungry City Chronicles / Mortal Engines Quartet



Darkfire Guild of Shadows



Broken Bones A New Dawn



Discovery First Colony



Committed The Ascension Myth



Dawn Arrives The Second Dark Ages



The Invasion The Call (Peadar Ò Guilin)



Reflection A Twisted Tale



The Immortal Renshai Flight of the Renshai



Fugitive Six Lorien Legacies Reborn



Allied Ruined / Emelina Flores



Flotsam Peridot Shift



Invincible Ark Royal



The Wrong Girl Return to Fear Street



The Massacre of Mankind War of the Worlds Sequels



Dangerous Mate Shifters of Bear's Den



Hunted Mate Shifters of Bear's Den



Runaway Mate Shifters of Bear's Den



Stolen Mate Shifters of Bear's Den



Untamed Mate Shifters of Bear's Den



Outliers The Outliers Saga



Uprising The Outliers Saga



Rebel Dragon Pearls of Desire



Rebel Bear Pearls of Desire



Rebel Lion Pearls of Desire



Rebel Wolf Pearls of Desire



Wolf Rising SWAT: Special Wolf Alpha Team



The Last Wolf The Legend of All Wolves



A Wolf Apart The Legend of All Wolves



Bringers of Hell The Tau Ceti Agenda



Dragonshadow Heartstone (Elle Katharine White)



Mystic Dragon The Mystic Trilogy



The Rift Coda The Rift Uprising Trilogy



The Wolf Under the Northern Sky



For a Muse of Fire Jetta / For a Muse of Fire



Age of War The Legends of the First Empire



The Magic Engineer The Saga of Recluce



Outcasts of Order The Saga of Recluce



Songsmith High Hallack



Guardian Galactic Gladiators



Cyborg Galactic Gladiators



Levi Hell Squad



Manu Hell Squad



Unchained Shifter Night



Guardian Alternative Detective / Steeplejack



Never Fade The Darkest Minds



Garro The Horus Heresy



Ruinstorm The Horus Heresy



Old Earth The Horus Heresy



Mister Monday The Keys to the Kingdom



Grim Tuesday The Keys to the Kingdom



Drowned Wednesday The Keys to the Kingdom



Sir Thursday The Keys to the Kingdom



Lady Friday The Keys to the Kingdom



Superior Saturday The Keys to the Kingdom



Lord Sunday The Keys to the Kingdom



Ramiel Dark Warrior Alliance



Rivaled Warrior Dark Warrior Alliance



Gemstone Wylde Magick



Beautiful Demons Peachville High Demons



Inner Demons Peachville High Demons



Wasting The Book of Maladies



Escape Space City



Torn Asunder Protected by the Damned



Knight's Creed Tales of the Wellspring Knight



Knight's Struggle Tales of the Wellspring Knight



A Sacred Pact War of The Angels



Waking The Leviathan War of the Damned



Subversive Giants War of the Damned



Juntto War of the Damned



Redemption War of the Damned



Stealing Life Dreams of Inan



Haven Tales of the Aftermath



Medusa Uploaded The Medusa Cycle



Friendly Fire The Fifth Ward



Nightblood The Frostblood Saga



The Autumn Fairy The Autumn Fairy Trilogy



Betrayed Bitter Harvest



Redeemed Bitter Harvest



Timespell Elemental Witch



BloodLust Rise of the Iliri



Instinctual Rise of the Iliri



Defiance Rise of the Iliri



Inseparable Rise of the Iliri



Tenacity Rise of the Iliri



Resilience Rise of the Iliri



Upheaval Rise of the Iliri



Fire Dance Last Song Before Night Universe



Sheepfarmer's Daughter The Deed of Paksenarrion



Gridlinked Ian Cormac



The Soldier Rise of the Jain



Portals Into the Galaxy



Unforgiven The Forgotten (M. R. Forbes)



Cujo Castle Rock



Wild Hunger Heirs of Chicagoland



Dragon Blood The World of the Lupi



Armistice The Amberlough Dossier



Moonshine & Magic A Southern Charms Cozy Mystery



Fly Trap Fly by Night



Sharp Change Black Meadows Pack



Burn Underground Encounters



Blaze Underground Encounters



Bear and Baby Wolves of Angels Rest: Montero Bears



Bachelor Bear Wolves of Angels Rest: Montero Bears



Barely Bear Wolves of Angels Rest: Montero Bears

Based on some conversations on File 770 about better ways to find candidates for the Best Professional Artist Hugo Award, we decided to try using the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) as a source. The result is spectacular, but maybe a bit overwhelming, so we decided not to try to integrate it with our regular Pro Artists page this year. Instead, we're treating this as an experiment and inviting feedback on how we might best use this wealth of data in the future to help people who're trying to find professional artists to nominateOur regular Pro Artist page shows about 300 works by 100 different artists. It's heavily slanted towards artists who drew covers for magazines (because we are a short-fiction review site) but we always include covers from top-selling novels as well. We completely miss new cover art for reprinted novels, something George R.R. Martin himself complained about A separate concern is that although our regular list includes artists with just a single published piece of art in the year of eligibility, the WSFS Constitution says that "In the Best Professional Artist category, the acceptance should include citations of at least three (3) works first published in the eligible year" (section 3.10.2). Kevin Stanlee clarified that that's a suggestion , not a requirement, but it would be nice to follow it if possible. If we did that with our regular Pro Artist list, though, there would be only 17 artists on the list. Clearly something more is needed.ISFDB is a fantastic resource with information about stories, authors, publications, and, most important for this purpose, art and artists. Perusing the list is fine to check eligibility for a specific artist, but manually using it to make a comprehensive list would be too much work. However, you can download the ISFDB MySql database to your own server and do your own queries. That creates the possibility of automating this entire process.So we did.If we simply included everything from calendar 2018, it would come to almost 1,000 different artists, so we did a few things to trim the list:We're interested in any sort of feedback on ways to prune this list, on problems in the formatting, on how we might best provide this info in the future, or anything else relevant to the topic.Problems we already know about include:Please let us know what you think!