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'''Dinosaur Comics''' is a daily [[webcomic]] put out by the effervescent [[Ryan North]]. It features [[T-Rex]] stomping on a [[log cabin]] and a [[Tiny Woman|tiny woman]], along with [[Dromi]] and [[Utahraptor]]. They discuss topics varying from [[lesbians]] to [[philosophy]] to [[bicurious|bicuriosity]]! Sometimes they even go so far as to discuss [[etc]]! Also Ryan bring back [[Morris]] please.

==Main Characters==
*[[T-Rex]], the lovable rascal.
*[[Utahraptor]], the rascally loveboat.
*[[Dromiceiomimus]], the dromiceiomimus.
*[[Tiny Woman]], the stompee.

==Supporting Characters==
*[[God]].
*[[The Devil]].
*[[Morris]] the tiny bug.
*[[Captain Suggestible]]
*[[Professor Science]]
*[[Jaques Esqueleto]]
*[[Fictional Jimbo Wales]]
*[[Time Traveling Edgar Allen Poe]]
*[[Mr. Tusks]]
*[[William Shakespeare]]
*[[Patrick Stewart]]
*[[Batman Head]]
*[[Doug]]

==This section was totally cut out of the wikipedia entry so incredibly lame==
A unique subculture has evolved around Dinosaur Comics. Ryan and T-Rex's prose style is often used by fans when talking about the comics or about other issues. Examples can be seen in the news box on the site itself, as well as in the comments on the [[LiveJournal]] [http://www.livejournal.com/users/dinosaurcomics/ syndication]. The style involves using few punctuation marks, capitalizing words and using the words "woo" and "awesome" in large quantities. There are other points in T-Rex's style which are often imitated, with the expected comic effect of an [[in-joke]], by fans. These include over-use of exclamation points, using the word "also" followed by a colon to begin sentences to emphasize the lack of a smooth segue, ending declarative sentences with a question mark, and speaking in all caps with little to no punctuation as God does in the comic (this is generally imagined to be a loud and monotone voice which often denotes sarcasm or other irony).

Fan prose style examples:
*''"It is quite common for Dinosaur Comics fans to over-use exclamation points!"''
*''"Also: this also-construction."''
*''"Ending declarative sentences with a question mark for comic effect is a common technique?"''
*''"Hello, people! What are the haps?"''
*''"I think the only way you could have made it worse were if you had all of that generate a javascript window.write encoded in hex. man, that would have been awesome."''
*''"wooooooooooo new member woo"''
*''"DINOSAUR COMICS FANS LIKE TO OVER USE CAPITAL LETTERS IN A KIND OF SELF-AWARE IRONY"''
*''"N-nervously stuttering the first word of a sentence to imply uncertainty?"''
*''"Today is a good day I think to declare what I would like to do today!"''

==Font==
The comic is in Lucida Console 13 {{fact}}

==Meaning of Qwantz==
[[Image:QwantzKbd.jpg|thumb|The house was thrilled as by an electric shock]]
The subject of perennial speculation.  Offered solutions included the keyboard map of T-Rex. However, a mysterious stranger revealed some facts:

''Johann Joachim Quantz'' (January 30, 1697 - July 12, 1773) was a German flutist, flute maker and composer. He was born in Oberscheden, near Göttingen, Germany, and died in Potsdam. 
 
Quantz began his musical studies as a child with his uncle (his blacksmith father died when Quantz was young), later going to Dresden and Vienna. It was during his time as musician to Frederick Augustus II of Poland that he began to concentrate on the flute, performing more and more on the instrument. He gradually became known as the finest flautist in Europe, and toured France and England. He became flute teacher, flute maker and composer to Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the Great) in 1740. He was an innovator in flute design, adding keys to the instrument to help with intonation (playing in tune), for example. 
 
Although Quantz wrote many pieces of music, mainly for the flute (including around 300 flute concertos), he is best known today as the author of Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiÃ¨re zu spielen (1752), a treatise on flute playing. It is of great interest today as a source of information on performance practice and flute technique in the 18th century.

Then [[Ryan North|Ryan]] replied, implying that this is, in fact, the source of the name!{{fact}}
{{quote|author=Ryan|text='Tis true!}}{{fact}}
The comic is also available through http://poo.ca and http://chewbac.ca, as well as http://dinosaurcomics.com and http://dromiceiomim.us.

==See also==
*[[Dinosaur Comics Timeline]]

==External Links==
*[http://qwantz.com/ Dinosaur Comics]
*[http://kundor.org/junk/qwantzfacial.avi Qwantz.com Doesn't Change Facial Expressions]
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