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Dinosaur Comics is a webcomic by Canadian author Ryan North. Also known as 'Qwantz' because of the site's domain name of, it has been online since February 1, 2003. Each weekday a new comic is posted; each comic uses the same artwork as every dinosaur comic before it, with only the dialogue changed. This has almost been done unintentionally by other cartoonists who like to copy and paste or cannot draw, and intentionally by many of his fans - the website has an extensive fan art section — who often take it far beyond his own experiments. Examples: or, or extensions into entirely different media like this video:

There are also easter eggs: every comic contains three hidden comments. One is accessed by holding the cursor over the strip and waiting for the title text tooltip to pop up. Another is found in the title of the RSS article. The third is found in the subject line of the 'comments' e-mail address. Some of the title text comments are longer than Mozilla allows for. (There is a Mozilla bug report for this behavior that is four years old; some readers have become impatient.) In this case, the full comments (and the email subject lines) can be found by viewing the properties page of the link and the comic.

Dinosaur Comics was named one of the best webcomics of 2004 by The Webcomics Examiner. In 2005, it won "Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic" in the Web Cartoonists’ Choice Awards.

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