Escher.gif (426 bytes)

eFanzines.com
science fiction fanzines on-line

FAAn Awards 2003

The 2003 Fanzine Activity Achievement awards were presented at Corflu Badger, the fanzine fans convention, in Madison, Wisconsin, during the weekend of April 25th to 27th, 2003.

FAAn Award Winners:

* Best Fanzine: Chunga
* Best Fanwriter: Randy Byers
* Best Fan Artist: Steve Stiles
* Best Letterhack (Harry Warner Jr. Memorial Award): Joseph Nicholas
* Best New Fan: John Teehan
* Number One Fan Face: Randy Byers

Detailed breakdown of the nominees and voting:

FAN ACTIVITY ACHIVEMENT AWARD RESULTS, 2003

(For Fan Activity in 2002)

Best Fanzine:
1.) Chunga, edited by Randy Byers, Andy Hooper & carl juarez: 98 points
2.) Plokta, edited by Steve Davies, Alison Scott, Mike Scott, et al: 47 points
2.) Wabe, edited by Jae Leslie Adams, Tracy Benton & Bill Bodden: 47 points
4.) Banana Wings, edited by Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer: 45 points
5.) Trap Door, edited by Robert Lichtman: 34 points
6.) Bento, edited by David Levine & Kate Yule: 19 points
7.) Tortoise, edited by Sue Jones: 17 points
8.) Floss, edited by Lillian Edwards: 16 points
9.) Head, edited by Doug Bell and Christina Lake: 15 points
10.) SF Commentary, edited by Bruce Gillespie: 14 points
11.) Challenger, edited by Guy Lillian III: 11 points
12.) eI, edited by Earl Kemp: 9 points
Tied with 8 points: File 770, Littlebrook, No Award
Tied with 6 points: Ansible, Efanac, The Knarley Knews, Non-Stop Fun
Tied with 5 points: ERBZine, Ethel the Aardvark, Rune 86, Steam Engine Time, Tommyworld, Vanamonde, Wassamatta U.
Tied with 4 points: Crazy from the Heat, Quasiquote, Twink
Tied with 3 points: The Alexiad, DR, Joie DeVivre, Peregrine Nations, Uncle Smiley's Bookcase, Masque, YHOS, Zoonation
Tied with 1 point: Fantasy Commentator, Horizons, Lofgeornost, The Revenge of Hump Day


Best Fan Writer
1.) Randy Byers -- 68 points
2.) Claire Brialey -- 34 points
3.) Andy Hooper -- 29 points
4.) Jae Leslie Adams -- 26 points
5.) Ted White -- 21 points
6.) John Hertz -- 18 points
7.) Max -- 17 points
8.) Mark Plummer -- 15 points
9.) Arnie Katz -- 13 points
10.) Lilian Edwards -- 12 points
10.) Alison Scott -- 12 points
Dave Langford -- 9 points
Tied with 8 points: Doug Bell, Tracy Benton, Steve Davies , Lesley Reece
Tied with 6 points: Lenny Bailes, Alison Freebairn, Arthur Hlavaty, Earl Kemp, Jo Walton, Kate Yule
Tied with 5 points: James Bacon, Tommy Ferguson, Don Fitch, John Henri Holmberg, Joyce Katz, Paul Kincaid, Petra Levandowski, Sue Mason, Yvonne Rowse, Steven Silver, Ian Sorensen, Harry Warner Jr., Henry Welch
Tied with 4 points: rich brown, Bruce Gillespie, Judith Hanna, Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Tied with 3 points: Gordon Eklund, Ken Forman, Sue Jones, Greg Pickersgill, Maureen Kincaid-Speller, Cheryl Morgan
Tied with 2 points: Jerry Kaufman, Christina Lake, Luke McGuff,
Tied with 1 point: Tanya Brown, Graham Charnock, Victor Gonzalez, D. Gary Grady, Tony Keen, Guy Lillian III, Ray Nelson, Dale Speirs


Best Fan Artist

1.) Steve Stiles -- 98 points
2.) Sue Mason -- 63 points
3.) Georgie Schnobrich -- 42 points
4.) Dave Hicks -- 39 points
5.) D. West -- 33 points
6.) Alan White -- 31 points
7.) Dan Steffan -- 29 points
8.) Craig Smith -- 25 points
9.) Alison Scott -- 19 points
10.) Marc Schirmeister -- 16 points
Brad Foster -- 15 points
Stu Shiffman -- 12 points
Teddy Harvia -- 11 points
Ross Chamberlain -- 6 points
Terry Jeeves -- 5 points
Tied with 3 points: Sheryl Birkhead, Ulrika O'Brien
2 points: Kurt Erichsen
Tied with 1 point: Atom, carl juarez, Ray Nelson, Mark Plummer, Bill Rotsler, Taral


Harry Warner Jr. Memorial Award for Best Letterhack:

1.) Joseph Nicholas -- 58 points
2.) Lloyd Penney -- 50 points
3.) Harry Warner Jr. -- 49 points
4.) Robert Lichtman -- 40 points
5.) Ron Bennett -- 19 points
6.) Milt Stevens -- 15 points
7.) E. B. Frohvet -- 11 points
8.) Kim Huett -- 9 points
8) Steve Jeffery -- 9 points
10.) Alexis Gilliland -- 8 points
10.) Kate Schaefer -- 8 points

6 points: Joseph Major
Tied with 5 points: Tracy Benton, Sheryl Birkhead, Don Fitch, John Foyster, Lyn McConchie, Steve Stiles, Howard Waldrop
Tied with 4 points: Chris Bell, Ken Forman, Jerry Kaufman, Eric Lindsay, Andrew Plotkin
Tied with 3 points: Harry Andruschack, Emma Bull, Jukka Halme, Sue Mason, Max, Ulrika O'Brien, Vicki Rosenzweig, Ted White
2 points: Jeff Schalles
Tied with 1 point: Richard Brandt, rich brown, Jim Caughran, Lillian Edwards, Trinlay Khadro, Eloise Mason, Mark Plummer, Alison Scott, Ruth Shields


Best New Fanzine Fan:
1.) John Teehan -- 36 points
2.) Tony Keen -- 30 points
2.) Eloise Mason -- 30 points
4.) Ang Rosin -- 22 points
5.) Damien Warman -- 18 points
6.) Max -- 17 points
7.) Pete Young -- 16 points
8.) Jan Stinson -- 13 points
9.) Doug Spencer -- 11 points
10.) Flick -- 6 points

Tied with 5 points: James Bacon, Michael Burstein, Randy Byers, Jukka Halme, Janice Ian, Erika M. Lacey, "Unnamed Male Offspring"
Tied with 4 points: Julianne Chatelaine, Earl Kemp
Tied with 3 points: Anna Feruglio Del Dan, Roxanne Gibbs, Tobes Valois, D. West, Art Widner
Tied with 1 point: Doug Bell, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Mike Lowrey, Fionna O'Sullivan, Yvonne Rowse, M.J. Simon, "Tim," Wilson Tucker

FAN FACE #1:
(This is an unofficial sixth FAAn Award, calculated and bestowed only when a fan is able to amass more total voting points across all categories than any single fan or fanzine receives in any single category. In this year, for example, if no fan had managed to exceed the 98 points received by Steve Stiles as best Fan Artist, and each of the editors of CHUNGA, who all are credited with its 98 points as Best Fanzine, then we would have no Fan Face #1. Happily, several fans had more than 98 total points across all five categories, allowing us the pleasure of calculating the top 20 finishers for Fan Face #1, therefore permitting each of the subsequent finishers to refer to themselves as "Fan Face #8," etc. should they feel the desire to do so. To be eligible for the list, a fan must receive votes in at least two categories:)

1.) Randy Byers -- 176 points
2.) Andy Hooper -- 127 points
3.) Sue Mason -- 118 points*
4.) Steve Stiles -- 103 points
5.) carl juarez -- 99 points
6.) Tied: Claire Brialey and Alison Scott -- each 79 points
8.) Robert Lichtman -- 78 points
9.) Jae Leslie Adams -- 73 points
10.) Mark Plummer -- 61 points
11.) Tracy Benton -- 60 points
12.) Steve Davies -- 55 points
12.) Harry Warner Jr. -- 55 points
14.) D. West -- 36 points
15.) Eloise Mason -- 31 points
16.) Lillian Edwards -- 29 points
17.) Kate Yule -- 25 points
18.) Doug Bell -- 24 points
18.) Ted White -- 24 points
20.) John Hertz -- 23 points


(*-- Although not a named editor, Sue Mason is an acknowledged and pivotal member of the "Plokta Cabal," and therefore counts the 47 votes amassed by that fanzine.)

Four-Way Fans:
It is very unusual for a fan to receive votes in all four of the "disciplinary" categories, for being the editor of a fanzine receiving votes as the best of the year, as well as votes for being the best fan writer, artist and correspondent of the year. This year, we can give special recognition to Sue Mason and Alison Scott for receiving votes for Best Fanzine, Fan Writer, Fan Artist and Letterhack.