2023 Hugo artist categories

Fan Artist continues to frustrate me by leaning so heavily towards artists who do work for fanzines and convention programs; I continue to wish for some sort of category reform. It's been pointed out to me that that day might come sooner if we let Fan Artist get nuked by the 25% rule, but I believe people are also actively working on getting rid of the 25% rule before it eats Fanzine, Fancast, or Fan Writer (see here), a proposal which seems likely to make faster progress than any pressure-driven reform of Fan Artist.

Anyways, here are this year's finalists, my ranking under the cut.

Best Fan Artist

Iain Clark
Richard Man
Laya Rose
Alison Scott
España Sheriff
Orion Smith

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Best Professional Artist

Sija Hong
Kuri Huang
Paul Lewin
Alyssa Winans
Jian Zhang
Enzhe Zhao

I nominated Hong, Huang, Lewin, and Winans, beating out Novella for the category in which I have the most nominations on the final ballot. Zhao and Zhang's stuff is also very cool, these are going to be hard to rank.

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