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Ryan M. North (born October 20, 1980) 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 graduated in 2005. He is a humorist, programmer and longboarding enthusiast; but also designs t-shirts as a day job. His parents are Anna and Randall North. He has a younger brother, Victor North. He is married to Jenn Klug.

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. In addition to his comics, North has created three tools to aid webcomic authors: Oh No Robot, a webcomic transcription tool which creates searchable text databases for comics; RSSpect, a method of creating RSS feeds for websites; and Project Wonderful, a pay-per-day auction-based ad serving system. The first two are free, while the latter takes 25% of each sale. Project Wonderful and Dinosaur Comics serve as a full-time source of income for North, making him one of a few self-sufficient webcomic artists. Before Dinosaur Comics, North created Robot Erotica.

The name Ryan North is held by many other individuals, and Ryan North the webcomic author sarcastically tried to stop these other people using his name in a series of satirical emails. North once got himself in trouble with authorities by sending crank emails. He was also connected to the arrest of a group of 15-year-old girls in Ravenna, Ohio when they created and distributed a number of cardboard boxes, inspired by a website he hosts for Poster Child.

On November 8, 2006, Ryan North launched the site Every Topic in the Universe Except Chickens, which provides a solution to vandalism on Wikipedia, in that it encourages vandals only to vandalize the article on chickens: "...instead of vandalizing Wikipedia in general, we all just vandalize the chicken article." North reasoned that it was worth trading the reliability of the chicken article if it meant freeing the rest of the encyclopedia from the threat of vandalism because "Dudes already know about chickens." His site has been covered by the mass media.

A collection of short stories titled, "Machine of Death" will be released October, 2010 through Bearstache Books (http://machineofdeath.net/a/about). It is co-edited by Ryan North and inspired by his December 5th, 2005 comic (http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=675)

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Total Books: 61
Adventure Time
Adventure Time (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781782760009
ISBN-10: 1782760008
Genre: Children's Books
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Adventure Time Mathematical Edition v 2
Adventure Time Mathematical Edition V 2 (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781782760474
ISBN-10: 1782760474
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
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Adventure Time Mathematical Edition v 3
Adventure Time Mathematical Edition V 3 (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781782760542
ISBN-10: 1782760547
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
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Adventure Time The Graphic Novel Collection Volumes 1  10 Books Collection Box Set
Adventure Time v 3
Adventure Time V 3 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781782760337
ISBN-10: 1782760334
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels
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Adventure Time Vol 1
Adventure Time Vol 1 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781608862801
ISBN-10: 1608862801
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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Adventure Time Vol 1 Mathematical Ed
Adventure Time Vol 1 Mathematical Ed (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781608863242
ISBN-10: 1608863247
Genres: Children's Books, Comics & Graphic Novels
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Adventure Time Vol 17
Adventure Time Vol 17 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781684153312
ISBN-10: 168415331X
Genre: Children's Books
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Adventure Time Vol 2
Adventure Time Vol 2 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781608863235
ISBN-10: 1608863239
Genres: Children's Books, Comics & Graphic Novels
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Adventure Time Vol 2 Mathematical Ed
Adventure Time Vol 2 Mathematical Ed (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781608863211
ISBN-10: 1608863212
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
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Adventure Time Vol 3
Adventure Time Vol 3 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781608863174
ISBN-10: 1608863174
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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Adventure Time Vol 3 Mathematical Edition
Adventure Time Vol 4
Adventure Time Vol 4 (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781608863518
ISBN-10: 1608863514
Genres: Children's Books, Comics & Graphic Novels
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Adventure Time Vol 4 Mathematical Edition
Adventure Time Vol 4 Mathematical Edition (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781608863969
ISBN-10: 1608863964
Genre: Children's Books
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Adventure Time Vol 5
Adventure Time Vol 5 (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781608864010
ISBN-10: 1608864014
Genre: Children's Books
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Adventure Time Vol 5 Mathematical Edition
Adventure Time Vol 5 Mathematical Edition (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781608864799
ISBN-10: 1608864790
Genre: Children's Books
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Adventure Time Vol 6
Adventure Time Vol 6 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781608864829
ISBN-10: 1608864820
Genre: Children's Books
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Adventure Time Vol 6 Mathematical
Adventure Time Vol 6 Mathematical (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781608867103
ISBN-10: 1608867102
Genre: Children's Books
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Adventure Time Vol 7
Adventure Time Vol 7 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781608867462
ISBN-10: 1608867463
Genre: Children's Books
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Adventure Time Vol 7 Mathematical Edition
Adventure Time Vol 7 Mathematical Edition (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781608868407
ISBN-10: 1608868400
Genre: Children's Books
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Adventure Time Vol 8 Mathematical Edition
Adventure Time Vol 8 Mathematical Edition (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781608869671
ISBN-10: 1608869679
Genre: Children's Books
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Adventure Time Volume One [Scholastic Edition] (Paperback)
Marvel Rising [Marvel Rising 2018] (Paperback)
Midas [Midas Flesh] (Paperback)
Romeo and or Juliet [Chinese Edition] (Hardcover)
Romeo and / or Juliet [Chooseable-Path Adventures] (Paperback)