These
books are born to tell about Dinosaurs. But these aren’t “the
usual dinosaur books”.
6
volumes, each of them built around a graphic novel that will show
scientifically rigorous Dinosaurs under the light of wonder: me and
Marco Signore whant to amaze our readers, even those who already know
these creatures and their world.
Each one of the 6 stories will be a trip through the three Mesozoic
periods, in different places all over the world. Your “host”
will be an exceptional narrator: the sun, eternal and sage witness
of the life on our planet. He will tell and comment the stories like
a fantasy narrator, without giving direct scientific notions, but
telling the stories as if the normal animal lifes you’ll read
about are ancient ancestral myths.
Scientifical
explanations about what you will see in each graphic novel will come
from the illustrated pupular part of each book, in which the palentologist
Marco Signore will give you all the informations you need to convert
your wonder about what you’ve just seen in the graphic novel
into amazing knowledge, because you’ll discover why Dinosaurs
lived like that, why they looked like that, why the carnivore hunted
like that and why the herbivore ate this plant instead of that one.
Marco will tell you how he knows these things, how fossil clues tell
him about the ancient world. A rigorous scientivif-popular part, but
written in a friendly, comprehensive and enjoyable way even for juvenile
readers.
These
two parts – graphic novel and scientific-popular – will
be tightly interconnected, thanks to notes that will recall the graphic
novel in the scientific part. So reading the scientific part you will
be able to come back to the graphic novel to see with your eyes a
notion you’ve just read about in the text.
These
books are the fruit of more than 4 years of work, and of the will
of faith in a dream that I have in my heart since my childhood. These
books are the “incarnation” of this website motto.
I hope you’ll enjoy our books; I hope that who considers himself
(or herself) an expert will be amazed even seeing things that he (or
her) already knows; I hope that reading our book you will fall in
love with Dinosaurs and Nature.
But above all, I hope that our work will simply make you daydream.
Knowing that we succeded in this would be the biggest satisfacion
we could obtain.
Matteo
Bacchin
American,
German, Japanese, South Korean and Italian edition:
• 6 Volumes
• Hardcover
• 64 color pages
• Published by: Abbeville Press (USA), Hanser (Germany), Kodansha
(Japan), Moonhak (South Korea), Jaca Book (Italy).
• Translation (USA) – Marguerite Shore
• Translation (GER) – Rehinard Tiffert
French
edition (La Saga des Dinosaures):
• 2 Volumes
• Hardcover
• 164 color pages
• Published by: Larousse.
• Translation and Adaptation: Laurence Nicolajeff
1•
USA - The Journey: Plateosaurus
1• GER - Die Reise des Plateosaurus
1• JAP - 
Synopsis –
We will follow the Plateosaurs migration cycle: these dinosaurs may
have migrated from the inner Laurasian regions to the outside coastal
regions, going along with the seasons – dry and wet –
pace.
We’ll see how these dinosaurs moved to the inner regions to
lay their eggs when rain transformed ‘em in green gardens; we’ll
see how juvenile Plateosaurs were forced to follow the adults migration
to avoid the dry season famine.
In the scientific part we will discover how Dinosaurs born and the
life of the Triassic period.
Period
– Upper Triassic (middle-upper Norian, about
210 m.y.a.)
Location – Central Laurasia (Germany,
Baden-Wurttemberg)
Protagonist– Plateosaurus engelhardti
Other Animals– Liliensternus liliensterni,
Nothosaurus giganteus, Eudimorphodon ranzii and
so on...
Drawings
/ Colour / Subject and Script / Narrator Script / Cover
– Matteo Bacchin
Scientific Part – Marco signore
Graphics and Pagination – Marinella
Carzaniga
Foreword (USA) - Mark Norell
Foreword (JAP) - Eric Buffetaut
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USA - A Jurassic Mystery: Archaeopteryx
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GER - Das Geheimnis des Archaeopteryx
2• JAP - 
Synopsis
– Who or what killed
the colorful Archaeopteryx which lays on the bottom of the
lagoon? Let’s learn how lived the ancient birds ancestor, and
let’s try to find the killer among the animals that fill the
Jurassic archipelago: small Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Crocodiles and
prehistoric Fishes.
And in the background, a big tropical storm…
In the scientific part, we’ll discover how Jurassic Dinosaurs
spread al lover the world, how they learned to fly and how a paleontologist
understands fossils.
Period
– Upper Jurassic (Kimmerdigian, about 155 m.y.a.)
Luogo – Central Laurasia (Germany,
Solnhofen)
Protagonist – Archaeopteryx
lithographica
Other Animals– Juravenator starki,
Pterodactylus kochi, Steneosaurus, and so on...
Drawings
/ Colour / Subject and Script / Narrator Script / Cover
– Matteo Bacchin
Scientific Part – Marco signore
Graphics and Pagination – Marinella
Carzaniga
Foreword (USA) - Mark Norell
Foreword (JAP) - Eric Buffetaut
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USA - The Hunting Pack: Allosaurus
Synopsis
– An Allosaur pack
is ruled by an enormous old male. They hunt in groups the huge sauropods,
they grew their hatchlings. But one day a young and powerful male
Allosaurus threats the old chief harem. The two mighty carnivores
engage a duel for the supremacy of the territory… how will it
end?
In the scientific part, we’ll discover the most spectacular
ecosystem of earth’s history: the North America Morrison Formation.
Period
– Upper Jurassic (Tithonian, about 150/145 m.y.a.)
Location – Northwestern Laurasia (USA,
Utah-Wyoming)
Protagonist – Allosaurus fragilis
Other Animals – Brachiosaurus altithorax,
Ceratosaurus nasicornis, Stegosaurus armatus and so on...
Drawings
/ Graphic Novel Colouring (from page 14 to page 19) / Subject and
Script / Narrator Script / Cover – Matteo Bacchin
Graphic Novel Colouring (from page 20 to page 39)
– N.L.C srl
Scientific Part – Marco Signore
Graphics and Pagination – Marinella Carzaniga
Foreword (USA) - Mark Norell
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USA - Growing Up in the Cretaceous: Scipionyx
Synopsis
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In the Scipionyx family the eggs just opened. Adults teach
to their joungsters how to live and defend ‘em from dangers:
the armoured Nodosaurid and the fearful Baryonyx, who’s
fishing on the seacoast. We will live the dangerous Dinosaur’s
childhood.
In the scientific part we will discover all the secrets of Dinosaurs
behaviour.
Period
– Lower Cretaceous (early Albiao, about 112 m.y.a.)
Location – Southern Laurasia (Central-Northern
Italy)
Protagonist – Scipionyx samniticus
Other Animals– Baryonyx walkerii,
and so on...
Scientific
Drawings / Script / Narrator Script / Cover – Matteo
Bacchin
Graphic Novel Drawings – Chiara Belleello
Graphic Novel Colouring – N.L.C srl
Scientific Part and Subject – Marco Signore
Graphics and Pagination – Marinella Carzaniga
Foreword (USA) - Mark Norell
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USA - Giant VS Giant: Argentinosaurus and Giganotosaurus
Synopsis
– A day of the life
in the herd of the biggest animals who ever walked on the earth –
Argentinosaurs – on the path to lay their eggs, through the
threat of a pack of one of the biggest carnivore ever existed: Giganotosaurus.
How do these titans of a passed era lived?
In the scientific part, we’ll discover Dinosaurs differentiation
during the Lower Cretaceous – looking to the final apex –
and how Dinosaurs eat.
Period
– Lower Cretaceous (Late Albian, about 95 m.y.a.)
Location – Southwestern Gondwana (Argentina,
Patagonia)
Protagonist – Argentinosaurus huinculensis
Other Animals – Giganotosaurus carolinii,
Patagopteryx deferrariisi, Iguanodon, Sarchosuchus, Skorpiovenator
bustingorryi and so on...
Scientific
Drawings / Subject / Script / Narrator Script / Cover –
Matteo Bacchin
Graphic Novel Drawings – Chiara Belleello
Graphic Novel Colouring – N.L.C srl
Scientific Part – Marco Signore
Graphics and Pagination – Marinella Carzaniga
Foreword (USA) - Mark Norell
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USA - T. rex and the Great Extinction
Synopsis
– In a world not so
different by our, one of the most evolved carnivores ever existed
patroling its unlimited hunting territory. He’s the king of
Dinosaurs, he’s Tyrannosaurus rex. During one of his
trips, the hungry T. rex sights an old one-eyed Triceratops,
and decides to attack it. They begin one of the most epic battles
ever fought.
At the apex of their evolution, Dinosaurs extingushed. Let’s
try to discover why in the scientific part of the 6th and last book.
Period
– Upper Cretaceous (Late Maastrichtian, about
65 m.y.a.)
Location – Northwestern Canada
Protagonist– Tyrannosaurus rex
Other Animals– Triceratops horridus, Edmontosaurus
regalis, Ankylosaurus magniventris and so on...
Drawings
/ Subject and Script / Narrator Script / Cover
– Matteo Bacchin
Graphic Novel Colouring – Laura Brancati (N.L.C.
srl)
Scientific Part – Marco Signore
Graphics and Pagination – Marinella Carzaniga
Foreword (USA) - Mark Norell
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