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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 1 February 2003, though there were earlier prototypes. Dinosaur Comics has also been printed in two collections and in a number of newspapers.
Comics are posted on most weekdays. Each comic uses the same artwork, with only the dialogue changing from day to day. There are occasional deviations from this, such as several episodic comics. It has been compared to David Lynch's The Angriest Dog in the World comic, and also made references to it. The strips take on a wide variety of topics, including ethical relativism, the nature of happiness, and the secret to being loved.
Cast
Main cast
The main characters' names are each dinosaur's genus (with the notable exception being "T-Rex", an abbreviation of the Tyrannosaurus' full binomial name). Although other dinosaurs have been mentioned in the strip, they are rarely shown.
- T-Rex is the main character. He is a green, 27-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex . His character is portrayed as self-confident, but frequently shown up by other characters, especially Utahraptor. He is good-hearted, but occasionally shows signs of being egotistical or selfish. T-Rex appears to be stomping a log cabin and a woman in the third and fourth panels of the comic, respectively.
- Utahraptor, T-Rex's comedic foil, appears in the fourth and fifth panels of the comic. One early comic says one of his identifying features is that he "frequently debunk theories." Utahraptor is gay, as North confirmed in the title of the RSS feed for the December 13, 2007 comic:
- Dromiceiomimus appears in the third panel. She is generally friendly to T-Rex, answering either neutrally or with mild, friendly criticism. She has been a romantic interest of T-Rex's. Episode 6 suggests that they were once together, and that Dromiceiomimus broke up with T-Rex.
Supporting cast
- Several comics take place in a mirror universe. In this arc, the standard comic has been flipped horizontally, as if seen in a mirror. All of the dinosaurs, in addition to being literal mirror images, sport drawn-on goatees to demonstrate that they are the mirror-universe counterparts of the normal characters (a parody of Star Trek's Mirror-Spock).
- God and the Devil make frequent appearances in the strip, speaking from off the tops and bottoms of the panels respectively, in bold and capitalized letters and with the Devil's font in red. They also speak with little or no punctuation and can be heard only by T-Rex. Topics of conversation between T-Rex and God vary, but the Devil and T-Rex mostly discuss video games and Dungeons & Dragons .
- T-Rex's neighbors: families of raccoons and cephalopods who talk to T-Rex in unsettling tones, with capitalized italics.
- Morris: a tiny bug, lacking in self-confidence, who mostly appears on T-Rex's nose and speaks in lowercase letters.
- A fictionalized version of 19th-century poet Edgar Allan Poe first appears offscreen, supposedly relaxing on T-Rex's couch, and later as a needy, annoying friend of T-Rex's, following T-Rex around and only wanting to talk about their relationship with one another.
- A fictionalized version of actor Patrick Stewart appears in several comics.
- A fictionalized version of William Shakespeare appears in an intermittent series called "Literary Technique Comics."
- Mr. Tusks: an elephant affected by island dwarfism. He speaks only in the sixth frame and frequently makes puns on the word "short" and variants. He is the Vice-Mayor of a fictional place known in the comic as Tiny Towne.
Scenery characters
These supporting characters almost never speak. Often, they are simply part of the scenery of the strip, and in later strips they are very rarely even acknowledged, despite their regular appearance. They all appear in the strip while T-Rex is about to stomp on them. These characters are:
- The tiny house in panel 3 (occupied in at least one strip)
- The tiny car in panel 3 (possibly occupied, and "slightly out of scale")
- The tiny woman in panel 4, whom North has called "the most competent character in the entire comic."
Easter eggs
Every comic contains at least three hidden comments (easter eggs). One is contained in the title tag, which can be accessed by holding the cursor over the strip and waiting for the title text tooltip to pop up, or through the image file's properties menu for browsers with a length limit. The second, which began appearing with the fifth comic, is found in the subject line of the "Contact" e-mail address. The third is found in the RSS feed of the comic and the archive page, being, essentially, the comic's title. The "Transcribe This Comic!" image at the bottom of some comics has a hidden message in its title text as well. The ads displayed on the site, both for Dinosaur Comics merchadise and third-party products, also have hidden messages in their title text. Additional easter eggs have been left in some comics, such as the URL to God's ringtone (the Téléfrançais theme) hidden in the watermark of one comic and an image steganographically hidden in a comic about steganography. The image at the bottom of the webpage displaying the tiny woman and house changes according to the current season.
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. Cracked.com named Dinosaur Comics one of the 8 funniest webcomics on the internet.
In 2005, it won "Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic" in the Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards. Soon after, in August 2005, Dinosaur Comics was accepted into the Dayfree Press.
Japan English class
Dinosaur Comics was used by an English teacher in Japan for creative writing exercises. The project was similar to Penny Arcade 's "Remix Project". The teacher, a friend of North's, used blank templates of the comic and had his students fill in dialogue. The results of this activity were posted to the Dinosaur Comics fan art page, and two phrases from the students' comics ("Am I bad man?" and "People is sometimes kind") were used in DC merchandise.
April Fool's joke
On April Fool's Day 2008, Dinosaur Comics was part of a three-webcomic prank involving Questionable Content and xkcd , where each comic's URL displayed another comic's web page. www.questionablecontent.net displayed the Dinosaur Comics website, www.qwantz.com displayed xkcd , and www.xkcd.com displayed Questionable Content .
See also
- Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists (includes material from Dinosaur Comics )
References
- ^ North, Ryan (1 February 2003). "Dinosaur Comics #1". Dinosaur Comics . http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1 . Retrieved 15 November 2008 .
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"Q: 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." "North By T-Rex: Dinosaur Comics' Ryan North talks about bringing up his dino-baby in the world of webcomics."; Internet Archive link. - ^ "HI MERCURY—I'm so happy you got rid of that stoopid comic! You might as well be running crap by Callahan in your paper as the never-funny Blecky Yuk-o. Maakies and Perry Bible Fellowship are keepers; Dinosaur Comics looks promising... ". http://web.archive.org/web/20070929090553/http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Letters?category=22120&issue=267907;
- ^ a b Swaim, Michael. "The 8 Funniest Webcomics". Cracked.com . http://www.cracked.com/article_15240_8-funniest-webcomics.html . Retrieved 15 November 2008 .
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