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Being world famous is a tough gig. Ask Irene Gallo.
She's known, not only for being the art director for Tor Books, one of the leading publishers of science and fantasy fiction. Not only for her great blog, The Art Department, an incredible resource for all things art. Not only for her work on staff with the Illustration Master Class, the week-long workshop that pairs diamond-in-the-rough artists with seasoned working pros. And not only for her own immaculate taste in art. Put all that aside, if you can.
She's world famous for the wonderful glimpses into her life that she shares on-line—her pics!
We assume she's a closet shutterbug because she takes these amazing photos of her travels and escapades. City to city, country to country, err...lighthouse to lighthouse. A life in the day indeed.
We were fans of Ms. Gallo eons before she ever became aware of us. Spectrum, the annaual tome that collects the best of the best in fantastic art, has a jury every year to help pick the art that goes into the book. Dwight has been buying Spectrum for...well...a while now, and he knew her name from one of the juries. He mentioned it to me a couple years ago and I've been trolling her blog ever since.
A few months back we heard that she was gonna be in our fair city for the 2010 Dragon*Con and thought, "Hmmm, now's our chance. Let's try and get her on the podcast!"—provided we could find her. Dragon*Con is only about 40,000 people, mind you.
But God love the Interwebs. We shot a few notes, tweets and Facebook posts out there and lo and behold, on Saturday, up to our humble little table walks Irene. Cool as a cucumber and sweet as pie. Dwight was on hand as our ambassador to say hello and gush appropriately (WHERE THE HELL WERE ADRIAN AND I....ARRRRGGGH?!).
Turned out, she was completely amenable to the idea of an interview and so, here we are.
Whatever you wanna know about Irene Gallo and the terrific work she does, we hope she answered it for you in our talk. We were just happy to be able to hang with such a champion of art and illustration. Truly, the love resides within her.
Maybe one day in the future we can all break bread together, sip some wine and join her in one of those world famous montages she posts on The Art Department. Chronicling the weekend's merriment. Who knows..?
- SWAiN
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