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Dinosaur Comics
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AuthorTemplate:Pluralize from textRyan North
Websitewww.qwantz.com
Current status/scheduleUpdated every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday except Canadian holidays
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GenreTemplate:Pluralize from textHumour

Dinosaur Comics is a constrained webcomic by Canadian writer Ryan North. It is also known as "Qwantz", after the site's domain name, "qwantz.com". The first comic was posted on February 1, 2003,[1] although there were earlier prototypes. Dinosaur Comics has also been printed in three collections and in a number of newspapers.[2][3] The comic centers on three main characters, T-Rex, Utahraptor and Dromiceiomimus.[4]

Comics are posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Every strip uses the same artwork and panel layout;[5] only the dialogue changes from day to day. There are occasional deviations from this principle, including a number of episodic comics.[6] North created the comic because it was something he'd "long wanted to do but couldn’t figure out how to accomplish... [he doesn't] draw, so working in a visual medium like comics isn’t the easiest thing to stumble into."[7]

Cast

  • T-Rex, the main character that appears in all six panels.
  • Utahraptor, T-Rex's comic foil, appears in the fourth and fifth panels of the comic.
  • Dromiceiomimus appears in the third panel. She is generally friendly to T-Rex, answering either neutrally or with mild, friendly criticism.
  • The tiny woman in panel four and the house in panel three have contributed dialogue but are usually silent.
  • Other unseen characters occasionally contribute dialogue. For example, "God" speaks from off panel in bold all-caps, "Satan" speaks from off panel in dark red all-caps, and T-Rex's sinister neighbours (raccoons and cephalopods) speak in italicized all-caps from off panel.

Creation

Ryan North started Dinosaur Comics during his last year of his undergraduate degree. In a 2016 interview, he said he "wanted to do something with comics [but] I couldn't draw — still can't draw. I didn't realize that there was such a thing as writers in comics. I thought it was all one person." At about the same time as he came up with the concept of a fixed-art comic, North received a school assignment to, as he described it, "do something interesting with the Internet." He was assigned a group, and his group was given the URL qwantz.com. After some time, his group had done nothing and North decided to upload some comics to the site. The first Dinosaur Comics strip was posted on February 1, 2003 and was called "Today is a beautiful day."[8]

All the comics are six-panel strips, using clip art that North found on a CD he had purchased. Every strip uses the same art, with occasional exceptions, such as the mirror universe comics which uses the art but reversed.[8]

Reception

Dinosaur Comics has received several awards and recognitions. It was named one of the best webcomics of 2004 and 2005 by The Webcomics Examiner.[9][10] Wired listed Dinosaur Comics as one of "Five Webcomics You Can Share With Your Kids"[11] and PC Magazine included the comic in its "10 Wicked Awesome Webcomics" list.[12] Cracked.com named Dinosaur Comics one of the 8 funniest webcomics on the internet.[5]

In 2005, it won "Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic" in the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards.[13] Soon after, in August 2005, Dinosaur Comics was accepted into the Dayfree Press.[14] In 2006, the blook Dinosaur Comics: Huge Eyes, Beaks, Intelligence, and Ambition was a runner up for the Lulu Blooker Prize for comics.[15]

Collected editions

  • The Best of Dinosaur Comics: 2003–2005 AD: Your Whole Family Is Made of Meat (April 15, 2006, Quack!Media) Template:ISBN
  • Dinosaur Comics fig. d: Dudes Already Know About Chickens (2010, TopatoCo) Template:ISBN
  • Dinosaur Comics fig. e: Everybody knows failure is just success rounded down (2011, TopatoCo) Template:ISBN
  • Dinosaur Comics fig. f: Feelings are boring, kissing is awesome (2012, TopatoCo) Template:ISBN

See also

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.North, Ryan (February 1, 2003). "Dinosaur Comics No. 1". Dinosaur Comics. Archived from the original on July 1, 2009. Retrieved November 15, 2008.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Warmoth, Brian (June 19, 2006). "North by T-Rex". Wizarduniverse. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Is Dinosaur Comics printed anywhere else off the Internet?
    It was in a few papers, but they tended to go bankrupt, so that was the end of that. There were a lot of university papers. If a university paper or a school paper asks to run the comics, I'm like, 'Sure! Don't worry about payment, just putting it in will be great.' But for large papers I ask for a little bit of money. Then they go bankrupt.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Doctorow, Cory. "Dinosaur Comics collection: improbably fantastic re-use of dinosaur clip art". Boing Boing. Archived from the original on December 25, 2012. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Elfring, Matt (May 30, 2012). "Web Comic Spotlight: 5/30/12: Dinosaur Comics". Comic Vine. Archived from the original on May 31, 2012. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
  5. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Swaim, Michael (September 12, 2007). "The 8 Funniest Webcomics". Cracked.com. Archived from the original on October 23, 2008. Retrieved November 15, 2008.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.North, Ryan (March 19, 2003). "Dinosaur Comics No. 35". Dinosaur Comics. Archived from the original on November 2, 2009. Retrieved November 25, 2009.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mitchel, Bill (August 13, 2009). "In Depth: Ryan North". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on October 28, 2012. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
  8. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Medley, Mark. "Choose your own interview with webcomic pioneer Ryan North". Archived from the original on January 17, 2021. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dale, Beran; Hellman, David. "The Best Webcomics of 2004". The Webcomics Examiner. Archived from the original on July 19, 2010.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dale, Beran; Hellman, David. "The Best Webcomics of 2005". The Webcomics Examiner. Archived from the original on July 25, 2010.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Richards, Brent (July 1, 2009). "Five Webcomics You Can Share With Your Kids". Wired. Archived from the original on April 9, 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Reynolds, Whitney (June 4, 2007). "10 Wicked Awesome Webcomics". PC Magazine. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards". Ccawards.com. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Today is a Beautiful Day". Dayfree Press. Archived from the original on August 23, 2005. Retrieved October 21, 2021.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fraser, Stephen (April 3, 2006). "Cooker Beats Hooker to Win Blooker - Literary Prize for Books From Blogs Names Winners" (Press release). London and Raleigh, NC: Lulu.com. PRWeb. Archived from the original on June 22, 2006. Retrieved October 21, 2021.

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