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Of course, Michael Crichton’s “Jurassic Park” (’90) is the book that changed everything & ushered in a new era of paleo-pop. Oddly enough, the story started in ’83 as a screenplay about a genetics grad student who recreates a dinosaur.
Víctor Mora also created a hero of the Middle Ages named Capitán Trueno. Trueno had his fair share of dinosaur trouble, too.
(Though, let's face it, most kids, if they even would color the grass, would just scribble over it all in solid green, ignoring the individual blades.)
Bernie Wrightson's dinosaur portfolio from ~1977. Wrightson originally intended these to be coloring pages for kids, but changed his mind, thinking the drawings were probably too detailed.
Norem liked to work in acrylic. He never thought of his work as anything more than a job until late in his life when he started to encounter fans of his paintings. Arthritis forced him into retirement in his 80s, though he did still occasionally paint until his death in 2015.
Somewhere along the line he did some paleoart painting, presumably for a book, though I can't find what. He also painted a few of the uber-gory "Dinosaurs Attack" cards, which I'll let the reader explore on their own.