Out This Week: Meozoic Art Volume II

By John Freeman on September 23, 2025 • ( 0 )

On sale this week, from Bloomsbury Wildlife, is Mesozoic Art Volume II, edited by Steve White and Darren Naish, and, just like the first volume, it looks incredible.

Following on from the hugely popular Mesozoic Art, published in 2022, this new volume showcases 25 amazing artists whose work represents the very best of palaeoart.

Our knowledge of how dinosaurs and other extinct species looked is continuously evolving with each new palaeontological discovery, as is the dramatic art that depicts these ancient worlds. Palaeoartists now have access to more information than ever before, allowing them to achieve greater levels of accuracy in their work.

Using fossilised material and the latest scientific knowledge, palaeoartists visualise and recreate creatures from the prehistoric world – they put flesh on the bones of long-extinct species and their environments. It is through this imaginative artform that fossils can be brought to life in fresh, breathtaking detail.

Mesozoic Art Volume II, edited by Steve White and Darren Naish - Sample Pages

Mesozoic Art II (AmazonUK Affiliate Link) presents 25 new leading paleoartists who present life in the primordial past through a broad diversity of artistic styles and techniques, from traditional graphite pencils to cutting-edge digital art.

Arranged by portfolio, each piece is accompanied by an extended caption by the highly regarded palaeontologist and artist Darren Naish, and editor Steve White.

The artwork featured offers so much more than images of dinosaurs: it also showcases the world they lived in, the other animals and plants that would have been a part of the species’ ecosystem, and their place in the history of life on this planet.

*Cooling Off: Monolophosaurus, art by Steve White*

Steve White has been an editor, colourist, inker and artist for almost four decades, beginning his career at Marvel UK on the likes of Care Bears, Transformers and Thundercats in the late eighties before writing for 2000AD, editing for Titan Comics, and being an illustrator on numerous books and magazines. Steve has been contributing editor on several art books for Titan including Dinosaur Art, Dinosaur Art II, and The Paleoart of Julius Costonyi.

Darren Naish is a vertebrate palaeontologist who has published several popular books on prehistoric life. He is an associate editor for the journal Cretaceous Research and has made a number of media appearances in connection with his work.

• Mesozoic Art Volume II, edited by Steve White and Darren Naish is on sale from Thursday 25th September 2025 | ISBN: 978-1399412216 | AmazonUK Affiliate Link

• Mesozoic Art, edited by Steve White and Darren Naish | ISBN: 978-1399401364 | AmazonUK Affiliate Link

• Bloomsbury Wildlife

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.