2026 Hugos: Best Professional Artist

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As not very scientifically determined by me.

1) John Picacio
2) Tran Nguyen
3) Tom Roberts
4) Kelly Chong
5) Dave Kellett
6) Lulu Chen

NB that Lulu Chen’s website has several bogus links.

In previous years I have also posted my votes for Best Fan Artist, but I know too many of the finalists to feel comfortable doing that this year. I will say, however, that I will not give a high preference to the finalist who stated that they got onto the Hugo final ballot out of spite.

2026 Hugos: Novella | Novelette | Short Story | Dramatic Presentation, Short Form | Professional Artist | Poem | Astounding Award
Best Novel: The Incandescent | Shroud | The Raven Scholar | The Everlasting | Death of the Author | A Drop of Corruption, and my votes
Best Graphic Story or Comic: The Invisible Parade | three more finalists | A Wizard of Earthsea, and my votes
Best Related Work: Colourfields | The Cuddled Little Vice | Inventing the Renaissance | Positive Obsession, and my votes
Lodestar: Holy Terrors | Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe | Among Ghosts | They Bloom at Night | Oathbound | Sunrise on the Reaping, and my votes
Where to get them | Goodreads/Librarything/StoryGraph stats