You can tell I was going to be a palaeontologist...
Something from my misspent youth this time. As kids my siblings and myself hit upon the great idea of producing a calendar as a Christmas present for our grandparents, quite probably because it was cheap. Basically we decided on a theme and then got drawing (in pencil first, then inking in later so that our dad could photocopy it at work). I suspect I had a pretty big hand in picking the 1994 theme (see below), the fact that Jurassic Park came out in 1993 was surely a coincidence. Anyway, as this resurfaced recently I thought I'd scan it in and post it here for posterity.
The front cover Pretty sure I've just copied these from JP merchandise:
January Pfft! This is clearly a Deinonychus...:
February We even ripped off the JP typeface for the months:
March An interesting mutant:
April Proof that randomly including Dimetrodon in dinosaur books does confuse kids:
May Apparently Toyota landcruisers were always associated with dinosaurs...:
June Obviously I didn't have great editorial control:
July Well it is the party month:
August Here we erect a new species:
September A reconstruction worthy of Waterhouse:
October Are those feathers?:
November Nice to see our notes section got used:
December It's all been building up to this:
3 comments:
Sometimes I think I'm great with kids, then I see something a child produced about dinosaurs and my inner red pen comes out.
Not a dinosaur, not a dinosaur, not a herbivore, not...
I'm suitably ashamed of myself.
Holy shit! you were actually a kid when JP came out! I feel so old!
Very good renditions BTW:)
Absolutely brilliant stuff! I used to rip off Jurassic Park a lot; I called it "Mesozoic World" or something...used BMNH plastic dinosaurs and had them attack Playmobile visitors...
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