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Ryan North

Cartoonist and writer, Dinosaur Comics and Squirrel Girl

How we know it's theirs

Their 2012 r/IAmA AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 38 posts and 2674 comments from u/qwantz, dated 2009 to 2026, most often in r/IAmA, r/comics and r/adventuretime.

Best moment

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I'm Ryan North! I write Dinosaur Comics, the Adventure Time comics, and I'm Kickstarting a choose-your- own-path version of Hamlet. AMA”

what does "qwantz" mean?

u/qwantz replied

If you follow the letters on a QWERTY keyboard it draws a T-Rex, constellation-style.

But beyond that it has the same secret semantics as "xkcd"!

More moments

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I'm Ryan North, the writer of Dinosaur Comics, Squirrel Girl, Shakespeare Chooseable-Path Adventures, and now a time travel survival guide! AMA”

When I started reading Dinosaur Comics one of the first ones I saw had everyone talking about radio formats or something with T-Rex stating in the last panel "this comic will only appear once" or something along those lines. I was then unable to return to the page after leaving…

u/qwantz replied

THIS IS A REAL THING I DID AND ONCE YOU SEE THE COMIC ONCE I STORE THE IP AND NEVER SHOW IT AGAIN, INSTEAD SILENTLY REPLACING IT WITH A DIFFERENT COMIC

YOU ARE NOT INSANE

BUT YOU HAVE BEEN... SELECTED

In a thread on r/IAmA

I'm the guy who does Dinosaur Comics. AMA

u/qwantz replied

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My original idea was that every month, I'd switch up the template. At the end of the first month I was going to switch to Astronaut Comics, but the astronaut clip art I had totally sucked and I believe I had to travel that weekend anyway, so I said "OH WELL" and continued on with the images I already had.

Context: a redditor asked if he'd ever thought about a new template Source

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I am Ryan North, OG webcartoonist and author, including the upcoming HOW TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD. AMA!”

I just pictured Velociraptor coming up behind Trex to make sure he heard that laugh

u/qwantz replied

FUN FACT: I had this idea early on that "Hah hah hah" would be the SINCERE laugh in the comic, and if they said "Ha ha ha" that was supposed to be an insincere, forced laugh. But then I never…

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FUN FACT: I had this idea early on that "Hah hah hah" would be the SINCERE laugh in the comic, and if they said "Ha ha ha" that was supposed to be an insincere, forced laugh. But then I never went back to make sure that was consistent so I don't think I can point to all 20 years of comics and say that it holds for all of them. But it does hold for some of them!