Irene Gallo is a Zombie
Take another look at the cover. See that zombie on the right, indicated by the arrow (drawn in by me)? That’s Tor art director Irene Gallo! (Click to enlarge.)
When I first saw it, I said to myself, “Hey, that kind of looks like Irene.” Then I see Irene’s blog in which she explains. Compare for yourself with some images from Flickr.
Irene went on (in a comment) to ID some of the other zombies: Alan Williams, Greg Manchess, and Kristina Carroll. (I could only find a website for one of them; I assume all three are artists.)
I wonder what’s cooler: Being tuckerized into a story as a zombie, or being artistically tuckerized on the cover of a book?
Kristina Carroll
9:13 pm Jul-16-2008This is very cool John! I actually had to forward this to Neil with some other cool stuff, figuring he would get a kick out of it and he writes about it here: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/07/how-to-tell-your-friend-you-really.html
This is becoming quite the blogged about book already! I might have to overcome my very rational fear of Zombies to check it out…