Ryan North





Ryan North

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October 20, 1980 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Ryan M. North is a Canadian writer and computer programmer who is the creator and author of Dinosaur Comics, and co-creator of Whispered Apologies and Happy Dog the Happy Dog.

North grew up in Ottawa, Ontario where he studied computer science (minor in film) at Carleton University before moving to Toronto for his Master's degree in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, specializing in computational linguistics. He is a humorist, programmer and longboarding enthusiast; but also designs t-shirts as a day job.

Probably his most well known work, Dinosaur Comics, a fixed-art webcomic, has run for more than 1,500 issues and has been published by Quack!Media as The Best of Dinosaur Comics: 2003-2005 AD: Your Whole Family Is Made Of Meat. Hi...more


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Average rating: 4.10 · 2,106 ratings · 367 reviews · 11 distinct works
Machine of Death: A Collect...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1,389 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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Your Whole Family is Made O...
4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Dinosaur Comics, fig. d: Du...
4.72 of 5 stars 4.72 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2010
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Dinosaur Comics, fig. e: Ev...
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4.83 of 5 stars 4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 419 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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“To answer your question as honestly as I can, I've wanted since I was very little to not have to worry about money. I've never been poverty-level poor (I mean, there's been years where I've been officially beneath the poverty line, but that wasn't poverty: that was being a student and living the Student Lifestyle), but I've been in a place where you know you can't afford a better-quality food, where you can't do certain things because of money, and I'd prefer not to have those problems if I can. I sort of have troubles with money in general, with how it determines so much of our lives but with how we all try to ignore it, but I would like to be (and stay) in a place where I can pick up some new comics and games and not worry about how much they cost.

This is terrible; you're asking me where I want to be in the future, what I want my life to be like, and the only thing I can tell you is "Man, all I know is I don't want to be POOR.”
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“Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.”
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“Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated!”
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