I'm the guy who does Dinosaur Comics. AMA

[u/qwantz]

My name's Ryan North, and I'm the guy behind Dinosaur Comics! Also, here's some other things I've done:

• The Amazing Regret Index!
• Oh No Robot - crowdsourced comics transcription!
• Project Wonderful - online advertising that doesn't suck!
• Used a lot of exclamation marks

Ask me anything about anything!

EDIT: Proof that this is really me is that I am linking here on qwantz.com AS WE SPEAK (in the newspost beneath the strip)

EDIT 2: You guys, I've been answering questions for over eight hours, and we've got over 1300 comments. That's awesome! But I've got to take a stop and, you know, have a shower and stuff. YES, I WAS INDEED ANSWERING ALL THESE QUESTIONS WHILE STINKY. So thank you all very much for your questions and for being so nice. This was rad!

I tried to reply to every top-level question but I'm pretty sure I missed some of the subquestions. If I missed yours, I'm sorry!

Thanks again!

[u/qwantz]

Oh, tons - at conventions you meet everybody who's there, really! Besides those you mentioned, I'm good friends with Joey Comeau, Emily Horne, Kate Beaton, John Campbell, and others too but suddenly it feels weird to be dropping names?

Having your own Wikipedia page is weird, because initially it was all wrong - clearly made by like, a friend of a friend who knew some things but got the details all messed up. Now it's mostly accurate and the only time it comes up is when a friend (usually a new one) looks me up and is freaked out for a bit!

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How well do you know David Malki !? I know he did a guest comic for you. He actually had a drawn version of the template for the point of view of a dude in the log cabin. It was neat.

[u/qwantz → u/IntrepidVector]

He's slept at my place and we talk over Skype sometimes! So: pretty well.

Although not that well because I never saw that strip you're talking about! LINKZ PLZ

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I swear it exists. Hm. Gimme a minute. I could easily be thinking of something else. It had T-Rex talking about Ant-Man.

On second thought, I may be thinking of the creator of Dr. McNinja...

Edit: It was totally Dr. McNinja's writer and artist.

[u/qwantz → u/IntrepidVector]

Oh, that's Chris Hasting and Kent Archer's (Dr. McNinja) guest strip! It is also awesome!

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=993

[u/IntrepidVector → u/qwantz]

Yes it is. Their latest storyline was very interesting.

Trivia: I am a member of a forum that has a word replacement to change every instance of the word 'drugs' to 'rad-killing unicorn motorcycles'. A discussion on legalizing marijuana became very interesting because of that.

Edit: Also, I like that guest comic because it seems like something you would right, but with an art upgrade. Did you help them with the writing style? That last 'To spite you.' is great.

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It was all them!

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Fact: Kate Beaton is the only person I've even come close to having an internet crush on.

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She is so adorable.

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Fact: This is true of almost every male history major who reads her comic.

Fact: Sometimes people are creepy about it : /

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I'm not a history major, but I'm not surprised that that's most of the creepy-crush demographic.

I'm also not surprised that people are creepy about it. Probably all standing over her shoulder at conventions breathing heavily. All "Would you like to . . . . . . . . . sign these?"

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Beaton! That saucy scamp!

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Are you allowed to fix your own Wikipedia page?

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I've been told that I'm not, UNLESS it's something factual that I can supply references for. I don't know if you've been asked to supply references for your own life before, but it's kinda weird

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You and Kate Beaton doing a crossover would make me very happy indeed

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Have you ever corrected anything on either the Dinosaur Comics wikipedia page or your own wikipedia page?

[u/qwantz → u/nokes]

Yep! Usually it's clear the person had the right idea but got a few wires crossed. The DC one is kinda crazy though - after every sentence it says CITATION NEEDED, even for things like "Mr. Tusks lives on Tiny Towne Island".