Ken McIntyre Award

A British award for the best fanzine art (and since 1998 generally fan art) named to commemorate fan artist Ken McIntyre, who died in 1968. Once or twice, the longer name Ken McIntyre Memorial Award appeared; Checkpoint 15 also mentioned a fund associated with it.

It is unclear when and how it ceased… in fact, even started to be awarded: Then quotes reports from December 1970 that the award "was being organised by Rog Peyton and would be presented for the first time at the 1971 Eastercon", but then nothing at all of it at the con itself.

Year	Winner	Reason	Notes / source
1971	(Jim Pitts ?!?)	(cover of Balthus 2 !?!)	Reported in Checkpoint Trial Issue 0 and Focal Point as "not awarded this year". Also, Balthus 2 appeared in September, long after Eastercon 22, let alone the eligibility year. Possibly confusion due to similarity with Pitt? Or a runner-up?
1972	Martin Pitt		https://ansible.uk/Then/then_4-1.html No mention in Checkpoint, which had a hiccup/hiatus right after the con.
1973	David Fletcher	cover of Shadow 18	Reported in Checkpoint 37 and 38
1974	not presented		According to report in Checkpoint 47
1975	Carol Gregory		Reported in Checkpoint 61
1976	Jon Langford		but see also very differing recollections in Tackett's Travels in Taffland; no mention in Checkpoint
1978	Steve Bruce
1981	Pete Lyon
1982	Rob Hansen
1994	Barbara Mascetti	the Stratmann wedding invitation	Reported in Ansible 81
1995	Dave Harwood	cover of Attitude 2	Reported in Ansible 94
1996	not presented		no nominations received accordihg to Ansible 106
1998	not presented		"still languishing in fannish apathy", as Ansible 130 put it
1999	Tom Abba		Reported in Ansible 142, incl. the award being "formerly for fanzine art, now revived for 'unpublished artwork in Eastercon art show'"
2000	Sue Mason	2Kon Progress Report 1 cover	https://news.ansible.uk/a154.html#01
2001	(Tom Abba ???)		Likely error for the 1999 win. Ansible 166 Paragon report does not mention the McIntyre but the "Paper Tiger art show award", won by Abba as well in 1999 and which, as better sponsored and organised, presumably made the McIntyre's new definition superfluous, went to Jay Hurst.

It seems to have had a fraught history. There was a rec.arts.sf.fandom discussion in 1998 and Bridget Hardcastle posted:

We tried to administer the Ken MacIntyre award at the 1996 Eastercon. Both the original and the published form of the artwork need to be displayed, and must be judged by a panel of five people including (I think - my brain is being severely dredged at this point) a con committee member, a Knight of St Fantony, a member of some other group (either Brum, BSFA or FoF [ Friends of Foundation?], I forget) and two other people chosen in an arcane manner.

Later, Bernie Peek posted

The Ken MacIntyre award is in an even worse state. It wasn't mentioned in the con publications this year [1998] and wasn't awarded. The award was originally intended to be for fanzine art. The conditions laid down for choosing the recipient makes it very difficult to administer. Because it's theoretically possible to meet the conditions, no Eastercon feels that it has the authority to change the rules.

In 1989, the rules were reported as:

The Ken McIntyre award is given for the best fanzine artwork of the year. All pieces of art must be nominated in advance. Both the original artwork and a published copy must be on display at the con. The winner is chosen by a committee that consists of: 

1) A BSFA nominee, 
2) A Knights of St. Fantony nominee, 
3) The convention committee nominee, 
4) Rog Peyton (or proxy), 
5) A. N. Other. 

In the event that any of these members is not available, then the remaining members of the Ken McIntyre award committee may select others to make up the number. 

...this all seems pretty complicated...

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