# Dinosaur Comics Dinosaur Comics is a webcomic by Canadian writer Ryan North that has used the exact same six panels of clip-art dinosaurs since February 1st, 2003. The humor comes entirely from the dialogue between T-Rex, Dromiceiomimus, and Utahraptor, whose poses and expressions never change from one strip to the next. ## Overview Dinosaur Comics is a weekday webcomic hosted at qwantz.com where every strip reuses the same six panels of clip-art dinosaurs, letting the writing carry the entire joke[3]. The recurring cast is T-Rex, the loud philosophizing protagonist, plus the smaller Dromiceiomimus and the skeptical off-panel Utahraptor who usually gets the last word[2]. The strip's whole appeal is the constraint. Because the art never changes, readers get the punchline through pure text rhythm, and running gags like T-Rex stomping a tiny house and a lizard in panel two turn into a shared visual language for longtime fans[5]. Creator Ryan North later leaned into that same voice for tie-in comics and choose-your-own-adventure novels, but Qwantz stayed the daily home base[1]. ## How It Spread Dinosaur Comics picked up momentum inside the webcomics scene in 2004, starting with a ComixTalk review that April and shout-outs in the commentary of Questionable Content later the same year[3]. On April 1st, 2005, novelist and comics writer Warren Ellis named it one of his favorite webcomics on his blog, which pushed a wave of new readers toward qwantz.com[4]. The following month BoingBoing linked the strip in a webcomics roundup, a Wikiquote page went up in June 2005, and in November a parody site called NewsRex mashed Reuters headlines into the Dinosaur Comics template[3]. That December, About.com's Web Cartoonist Choice Awards named it the year's Most Outstanding Anthropomorphic Comic[3]. By the early 2010s a fan-built timeline of in-comic events was circulating, North was doing repeat Reddit AMAs, and the strip was being written up by outlets including Smithsonian Magazine and Comic Book Resources[3]. Guest strips using the six-panel template appeared from creators including Wondermark's David Malki, who filled in around North's August 2010 wedding[5]. ## How to Use The Dinosaur Comics format is easy to riff on because the panels are fixed: pick T-Rex as the loud thesis-haver, Dromiceiomimus as the friendly follow-up, and Utahraptor as the off-panel skeptic in panels four through six[2]. Fan and guest versions typically keep the six-panel grid and the stomped-house gag intact, and swap in new dialogue on any topic from linguistics to Shakespeare[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Dinosaur Comics? Dinosaur Comics is a weekday webcomic by Ryan North at qwantz.com that uses the same six clip-art dinosaur panels every strip and changes only the dialogue between T-Rex, Dromiceiomimus, and Utahraptor[1]. ### Where did Dinosaur Comics come from? Ryan North registered qwantz.com in November 2002 and posted the first strip on February 1st, 2003, after building the six-panel layout in a clip-art program with posable dinosaur figures[1]. ### What does Dinosaur Comics mean? The name refers to the cast of three dinosaurs, and North has said the domain qwantz has the same kind of arbitrary origin as xkcd, a letter combination picked because it was still free[2]. ### How do you use Dinosaur Comics? The template keeps the fixed six panels and the stomped-house gag, with T-Rex driving the argument and Utahraptor answering off-panel in the final frames, a structure guest artists like David Malki have reused for tribute strips[5]. ### Is Dinosaur Comics still popular? The strip is a webcomics classic that is still updating, with new comics appearing on qwantz.com as recently as August 2026 keeping the same T-Rex and Utahraptor dynamic[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1]() 2. [https://www.qwantz.com]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/dinosaur-comics]() 4. [https://www.warrenellis.com/?p=533]() 5. [https://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1768]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/dinosaur-comics Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library