Wow – I had no idea he did all of that stuff! I am glad I posted the initial
question, as this is amazing stuff from all you guys!
Thanks! Kevin
From: comicartl-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <comicartl-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
Of Malcolm Bourne (Redacted sender "m.j.bourne" for DMARC)
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 3:45 PM
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Subject: [comicart-l] Re: So I am sitting earlier this evening...
Although I’ve been to the Houston area many times, as I have family there, I
have never been to the HMNS - next time! - however there is what i imagine must
be a similar exhibit at the Natural History museum in San Diego, which I have
been to quite a few times, where a dozen of Bill’s murals are hanging, and
where some years he’s done a lecture there in the days leading up to Comicon -
(whatever happened to that show??) - I think that’s where the work originated.
Certainly there is a lovely ‘coffee table book’ of the art, and at one point
you could buy a special edition that had a 'cut-off’ from one of the murals in
it - being a sucker for such things, i have one, embellished by a little Bill
drawing of course.
But Bill’s an eminent natural history artist in his own right, and has I know
been on several expeditions in that cause (tough life eh!) including to
Antarctica, drawing whales and the like. I suspect his most viewed work, in
fact, is his Dinosaur art at the Disney Theme parks, mostly around the
‘Dinosaur’ ride where there are some great dinosaur portraits mostly outdoors
and another huge mural in the ‘entrance halls' - I’ll dig out some pics from
trips if i can find them. In fact Bill told me that he started his art career
out of college by creating cut-out silhouettes for customers at Disneyland CA.
I love his work, own a few pieces and every year look forwards to gaping open
mouthed at what he has on display at SD, one of the booths I get to hang out at
for a while! (I even have the very rare privilege of an original portrait of me
that Bill offered to do for me a few years ago…..)
The fairly recent ‘Fantastic Worlds of William Stout’ book is a really nice
hardcover collection of his work - my stepson got it me for Xmas a couple of
years back - and the one from the Murals is called ‘Prehistoric Life Murals’,
fittingly enough, and there are some great dinosaur books of his on the shelves
alongside fantasy stuff - many of the younger generations in our family have
received dinosaur books of his, from me, for birthdays, and chanukah/christmas
whether they like it or not!! (They do - kids love dinos.)
Malcolm
On 13 Jan 2021, at 19:22, Alexander Johnson <alexander.park.johnson@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:alexander.park.johnson@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Re: Some of his best work has been seen by tons of people who don’t ever know
his name like the massive murals of prehistoric life at the Houston Museum of
Natural Science.
I had no idea did work there. The HMNS has a wonderful paleontology exhibit -
https://www.hmns.org/exhibits/permanent-exhibitions/the-morian-hall-of-paleontology/
Regards,
Alex Johnson
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Your comments are more than welcome.
On Jan 13, 2021, at 12:34 PM, <phillipdanielanderson@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:phillipdanielanderson@xxxxxxxxx> > <phillipdanielanderson@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:phillipdanielanderson@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Bill famously did the storyboards to the first Conan movie in more of a comic
book style. I remember being at his table at a show in Austin & he had some of
those pieces & a couple were splash pages. This young guy was looking at 2
pieces & flipped a coin to decide between them. Unfortunately he thought they
were $10 & they were $1,000. Bill said he didn’t mind that the guy didn’t
realize that they were $1,000. He just couldn’t understand why the guy
wouldn’t go $20 for the pair!
He did some beautiful pre-production work for a Warlord of Mars movie that
didn’t get made. There was a nice full painting that I loved, but couldn’t
afford.
He’s done a number of movie posters as well. He has had kind of an amazing
career. Some of his best work has been seen by tons of people who don’t ever
know his name like the massive murals of prehistoric life at the Houston Museum
of Natural Science. Other work doesn’t really get seen by many people, but
impacts many people like his work for theme parks.
Phillip
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Behalf Of Bill Morrison
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 3:07 AM
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Subject: [comicart-l] Re: So I am sitting earlier this evening...
Bill has spent quite a lot of time working in the film industry doing
storyboards and production design. Notably, he designed the famous “Tar Man” in
Return of the Living Dead.
On Jan 13, 2021, at 12:46 AM, Kevin Alsop <amryl@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:amryl@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
On my couch to relax and watch some TV. Rambo: First Blood (the original) is
on and its at the end when he gets to back to town and takes care of business.
Credits are rolling and I am just watching them for no reason and a line pops
up that says “Storyboards William Stout”.
Is that OUR Mr. William Stout or some other person with the same name?
Kinda came out of nowhere and I had to scroll back up on the screen to make
sure of what I read!
Kevin
