Greg at a Brachylophosaurus dig site near Malta Montana

Gregory Wenzel is an award winning writer and illustrator specializing in natural science subjects. His first illustrated book about Dinosaurs, The Monsters who Died was done in 1982 and since then he has written and illustrated books about dinosaurs, Giant Dinosaurs of the Jurassic and The Feathered Dinosaurs of China, as well as illustrating many other books covering a wide range of subjects from leopards to creatures of the deep sea, and of course dinosaurs. His art has also been used on The Tonight Show, The Discovery Channel and in Michael Crichton’s book “The Lost World” as well as in natural history museums and on posters.

Greg is also an acclaimed sculptor creating 10 models for the Battat line of dinosaur toys, considered by many to be the best line of toy dinosaurs ever produced, as well as 26 wild animal toys for Safari, Ltd. His larger sculptures can be found on the halls of museums like the Boston Museum of Science.

Greg lives in Massachusetts with a studio filled with bones and fossils and all manner of natural history objects including his cat Nikitta. He is not the only artist in his family. His brother, David Wenzel, is an illustrator and graphic novelist, (Kingdom of the Dwarfs, Middle Earth: The World of Tolkien Illustrated, The Hobbit, a graphic novel) and his nephew, Brendan Wenzel, is a children’s author and illustrator. (They All Saw A Cat, Hello, Hello, A Stone Sat Still)

Book Illustration

Charlesbridge Publishing

Soundprints

Alfred A. Knoff, Inc.

G.P. Putnam Sons

Turnstone Publishing Group

Newbridge Communications

John Wiley and Sons

Storey Publishing

Innovative USA

Indiana University Press

Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc

Toys

Battat

Safari, Ltd

Magazine and Exhibit Illustration

The Tonight Show

ABC Primetime

The Discovery Channel / Paleoworld

Scholastic Inc.

Popular Science Magazine

Earth Magazine

Dinosaurus Magazine

Dinosaur Frontline

Dinamation International Ceratopsian Exhibition

U.S. Forest Service

The Dinosaur Society

Boston Museum of Science

American Museum of Natural History

Judith River Dinosaur Institute