Vale and Farewell, Dario Corallo (1960-2026)

By Rick Meints

The World of Glorantha has just lost its most prolific artist, the Sicilian artist Dario Corallo who has died at the age of 66. I say with confidence that Dario drew more art for Gloranthan publications than any other artist. Between Glorantha fanzines Tales of the Reaching Moon and Tradetalk, Moon Design Publications Gloranthan Classics series, and a swathe of titles in the Jonstown Compendium, are just some of the places where his art lives on.

Dario brought Glorantha to life through his artistry. Even more generously, because he often wanted little or no money for his work.

I met Dario in the early 90s while doing the layout for the Glorantha fanzine Tales of the Reaching Moon. Every issue of Tales I worked on featured his art. Dario made himself available to do spot art on short notice, usually delivering the desired piece within a day or two. It made my layout work so much easier when I could request a quarter page piece of art to round out an article. Sometimes he sent 3 or 4 extra pieces "just in case."

Similarly, every issue of Tradetalk I worked on meant working, quite happily, with Dario. He often did the majority of the internal art for each issue, plus the cover. When I ceased doing the layout Dario did the layout too, all the way through to Tradetalk's final issue (#20).

Moon Design Publications owes him a debt of gratitude as well. He did all four of the covers for the Gloranthan Classics series, along with many internal art pieces. He took great joy, as we all did in seeing those early RQ2 supplements get back into print. Like many of us, those were the books that started our lifelong love of Glorantha.

Tentacles Press featured Dario's cover art on many of their products, including both their Pavis & Big Rubble series, and their Ye Book of Tentacles series of publications. He loved drawing Trolls, Elves, Chaos Creatures, and ducks especially.

Dario never ran out of inspiration, and he never missed a deadline. When we fell short of enough art he always rose to the task, just drawing more without hesitation or complaint. I'm pretty sure for some books he provided ALL of the art.

Lastly, if you peruse the Jonstown Compendium you will quickly see how he drew covers and internal art for so many of its books. He kept drawing right up until almost the end. He loved the community so much, and gave so much of himself to it.

We owe Dario an unrepayable debt. We will all miss him greatly.

Vale and farewell. We say a final "gratzi" to which we know he would have responded to with "prego."