Steve White’s new art booklet, the aptly titled Dinosaur Drawings, is now in stock from the ace artist, colourist and author, ahead of the artist an author’s appearance at DinoCon, returning to Birmingham next month.
A simple 48-page A5 booklet collecting various sketches created for buyers of his other artbooks, Steve is selling it for £7 or £15 with a sketch (on the inside front cover) plus postage.
Dinosaur Drawings will be available at the forthcoming DinoCon next month; if you’re attending but would like a sketch, contact via his official website with what you’d like, and you can pick it up at the con. (If you won’t be at the con, and would like a copy, you can also contact him to sort out details such as postage).
All Steve’s other artbooks are also in stock, available to buy direct: contact him via social media (@sharkbitesteve on X, Instagram, FB, BlueSky).
DinoCon 2026
DinoCon is returning on Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th July 2026 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole. Tickets are available to purchase here. The event is the UK’s largest Palaeontology themed convention, celebrating all things prehistoric. With a focus on education and fun, there will be talks and presentations from palaeontologists around the world, stalls selling a wide variety of palaeo paraphernalia, exclusive palaeoart workshops, and much more.
Guest of Honour at the event is David James Armsby, best known for his animated films SAURIA and Dinosauria. (All episodes are available on his YouTube Channel, Dead Sound). David will be premiering his eleventh Dinosauria film at DinoCon.
Speakers also include Palaeoartist, musculoskeletal biologist, and vertebrate palaeontologist Matt Dempsey, who will be hosting a talk at about how dinosaurs are reconstructed; screenwriter, producer and director, Tim Haines, who will be hosting a talk about the upcoming miniseries Surviving Earth; ecologist George Hancock, who will be hosting an academic talk on dinosaur camouflage; and Sue Judd, who will be hosting a talk at about the creation of Everything Dinosaur‘s first in-house model.
More Sharks from Steve!
Steve White should need no introduction to most downthetubes readers. He 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 also been contributing editor on several art books for Titan, including Dinosaur Art and The Paleoart of Julius Costonyi.
His next illustrated work arrives in bookshops on 18th February 2027: Prehistoric Sharks: The Evolution of Sharks in 40 Species, written by Charlene da Silva. It’s described by publisher Bloomsbury Wildlife as the ultimate illustrated resource to fossil sharks, from the buzzsaw sharks to Megalodon.
Crossing the line between natural history and pop culture, modern sharks have captured the public imagination like few other animals. Now, Prehistoric Sharks blends richly detailed palaeoart and cutting-edge science to bring their ancestors to life. The book is available to preorder now (AmazonUK Affiliate Link).
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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.
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