Rise and shine, the LITC podcast is here again! We have some colourful and pretty gnarly palaeoart to show you from the spectacularly-named Tudor Humphries. For the interview, Marc and Natee discuss the lovely – and somewhat controversial – book The Iguanodon’s Horn, with its author and illustrator, the award-winning Sean Rubin. Is making fun of outdated palaeoart tropes fair game? Will we keep comparing dinosaurs to fish? Why is there a tiger in Africa? Will Natee finally admit that T. R. is their favourite dinosaur? Are we big in Japan, like Godzilla? And will we ever, ever, ever, shut up about TetZooCon? Find out none of this and less in episode 36!
In the News
- Marc has been to both the Manchester Museum and the Sedgewick Museum of Earth Sciences in Cambridge, both of which have dinosaur representation… but, having failed to take pictures, did it really happen?
- We didn’t mention it, but Gemma is going to a talk by Dicky van der Zalm on Marie Hubrecht at the Joke Smit College in Amsterdam on September 15. Details here.
Vintage Dinosaur Art
Originally from 1988, T. R. & Friends was known to British audiences as The Sainsbury’s Book of Dinosaurs. It was written by Rupert Matthews and illustrated by the beloved British artist Tudor Humphries (1953), who specializes in animal art.
- Marc’s original review from 2019 is here!
Interview
Sean Rubin (1986) is an author and illustrator of children’s books known for books such as Bolivar (2003), This Very Tree (2021) and The Passover Guest (2021, with Susan Kusel). He lives in Virginia. His latest book, The Iguanodon’s Horn, has made waves in the palaeo world. The book is reviewed by Marc here.
Natee who?
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3 Comments
Masao Okazaki
August 31, 2024 at 8:45 pmSurprised yet delighted to hear my name!
Gemma Hazeborg
September 2, 2024 at 4:40 pmI hope I didn’t butcher it!
Masao Okazaki
September 4, 2024 at 5:02 pmOnly slightly mangled. But I grew up in the US with my name constantly mispronounced. I’m used to it.