William Stout

The definitive first volume exploring the formative years and early comics career of legendary artist William Stout, told in his own words and artwork. William Stout’s Comics, Volume 1 is the first installment in a three-volume celebration of the legendary artist’s comics career, focusing on his formative years and early professional work. Featuring more than 75 complete comic pages, over 370 comic-style illustrations and personal works, and rare historical photographs, this volume is a visual treat for his fans and comics historians alike. Written and narrated by Stout himself, the book traces his journey from childhood obsessions and early superhero creations to his time at the Chouinard Art Institute, where influential mentors helped shape his artistic voice. It explores his pivotal time as an assistant to Russ Manning on Tarzan of the Apes, the impact of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ stories, and Stout’s wide-ranging early output, from car and motorcycle comics to his unexpected entry as a sports cartoonist. Also included are never-before-seen early drawings and superhero creations, new portrait drawings of his artistic heroes, and side-by-side comparisons of his earliest and recent works that reveal his remarkable evolution. This volume further documents his first professional assignments, from working as a Disneyland portrait artist and contributing to fanzines to creating comics for CYCLE-toons, rounding out this richly illustrated book. Carefully crafted over ten years in close collaboration with William Stout, Volume 1 brings to life a cherished chapter in comics history and sets the stage for the volumes to come.

A premium collection demonstrating the effectiveness of the comics medium for telling the most personal of stories--the autobiography. Showcasing some of the first published autobiographical stories from living-legend artists, mainstream greats, and young indie up-and-comers Featuring stories by Will Eisner, William Stout, Gabriel B and F bio Moon, Stan Sakai, Sergio Aragon s, and many more of comics' top talent

Here are dinosaurs as you've never seen them before in a dramatically expanded new edition of the book that started the renaissance in dinosaur books. Here are dinosaurs that are swift, stunning, scary and stupendous., presented in a lavish format. Using the latest paleontological research, The New Dinosaurs presents a scientifically accurate look at the way dinosaurs lived: how they moved, ate, dueled, drank and mated. From ten-ton brontosaurus to thirty-foot hadrosaurus, here is a story more fantastic than fantasy itself "This book travels you wonderously in time and lands you where you've always wanted to be: cheek by jowl with the mighty samurai lizards..."--Ray Bradbury"Nothing changes like the past." No part of the past has changed more in the last few decades than our picture of the dinosaurs. When William Stout drew the pictures for the first edition of Dinosaurs, in 1981, the ancient reptiles were big, lumbering brutes, cold-blooded slowpokes driven to extinction by the wily mammals eating their eggs. Now they're still big, but that's almost the only point that hasn't changed. Warm-blooded, feathered, nest-building, under attack from outer space; what's not to like? No wonder dinosaurs have become so popular.Stout is a comic book and record album artist who has been a designer for movies such as Dinosaur His dinosaur paintings have an Art Nouveau quality, with strong, flowing lines and glowing colors. Not hyper-naturalistic, they are beautiful and dramatic, like the highest-quality manga or illustrated novels. The book's text is in the present tense, and is vivid and novelistic: Othnielia slowed down when he came to the bank of a wide creek. Near it, a neuropteran was perching in mid-air. The span of its wings was close to that of othnielia's fingered feet, which spread as he crept up on the dragonfly. The New Dinosaurs will fire the imaginations of dinosaur lovers of all ages. --Mary Ellen Curtin

"Dinosaur Tales" is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. Included are tales such as "Besides A Dinosaur", "A Sound of Thunder" and "The Fog Horn". Bradbury is also the author of "Farenheit 451", "The Martian Chronicles" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes".