EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 10 © 2015 Book Palace Books (96 PAGES in Full edition)

4 ABOVE: Stout's love affair with Tyrannosaurus Rex was cemented when, at the tender age of three, he was taken by his parents to see 'King Kong' FACING PAGE: One of Stout's most iconic representations of the T-Rex, intended as the cover for the 1981 publication, 'The Dinosaurs: A Fantastic View of a Lost Era', until the publisher decided to opt for a less predictable raptor and chose a herbivorous Parasaurolophus instead. The words were spoken by Nordy Roblin, one of Stout’s friends and very much an exponent of the philosophy that he espoused. Having run away from home in Mexico City to Tahiti at the age of 14, where he took up quarters with a woman twice his age, eventually returning to L.A. where he became a Spanish Literature professor at UCLA, later bailing from that occupation to sell bread and pastries from his own bread truck. Roblin’s admonishment became a mantra for Stout and it is a story he is happy to relate as he looks back on a career in art which has not only secured him creative fulfilment and a comfortable living but has also provided him with enough adventures to easily eclipse any number of Hollywood fantasies. Stout’s artistic odyssey began when his family moved from Stout’s birthplace (September 18th 1949) of Salt Lake City, Utah to Los Angeles, California. His passion for drawing, coupled with a rich appreciation of the weird, manifested itself from an early age, when he