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Suffice to say that every time I come across a discussion of natural history where everything is framed in terms of alpha males establishing their dominance and establishing a dynasty, my mind goes back to this 50-year-old Wein & Wrightson parable.
Question time! I'm planning to do another animatronic expedition on Wednesday, and one of the trickiest parts is correcting the feet. Are there any good one-stop guides to dinosaur foot drawing? How many toes, which have claws, etc?
It's been a few years, but I'll once again be doing a class for this year's online Wild Wonder nature journaling conference. Early bird pricing ends July 1!
I've been delving into paleontology stuff again (more on that in a bit) and I'm relating to @restingdinoface.bsky.social's aversion to lazy cliches about "dynasties" and "dominance" and "biological need to be the alpha" (ahem). It keeps making me think of issue 10 of the original "Swamp Thing"...
So what happens when you rant nonstop about enslaving the world in a cemetery full of martyred slaves? You can see the "Tales From the Crypt"-style outcome here:
50yearoldcomics.com/2024/02/10/s...
I'll probably be heading back to the "Dinos Alive" exhibit in Oakland pretty soon, so I've been studying up on the featured animatronic dinosaurs (plus Dimetrodon). I want to have a good handle on their actual sizes and historical context.
A bit of unused handout ephemera from this week's Cartoon Camp at @cartoonart.bsky.social : How to enjoy museums, according to me and Julie.
Here, Swampie's nemesis Arcane has returned from the dead to battle our hero in an abandoned slave cemetery, where he spectacularly fails to read the room.
This isn't exactly what I'm after, but it's pretty cool if you're into footprints.
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/din...