The Man Behind the Festival of Books Dinosaur Logo

The illustration crowning this weekend’s LA Times Festival of Books doubles as a jolly green homecoming for USC alum Bob Staake. And who better to paper the in-between years than a reporter for The Daily Trojan?

Staake, who drew cartoons as a non-student for the Trojan for two years before landing a USC scholarship, tells Alexis Driggs that the above illustration came from his unused pile:

Not every image he sketches ends up in a book, such as the image of a dinosaur on the Empire State Building reading a book that he recently re-designed as a dinosaur on top of a stack of books to promote the Festival of Books.

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