Ryan North

Comics are for Nerds

I have mixed emotions about this article in the Guelph-Mercury of Ontario, Canada. On the one hand, I'm glad that the guy has found his niche drawing pictures of mammary un-glanded reptiles. On the other, I'm lying and don't care about him one way or another. Here's the most important bit:

When Ryan North was a kid in Ottawa, the comic shop was next to a pornography store and he always felt it was unsavory to go inside.

"Even today a lot of comic shops have giant images of She-Hulk in a bikini in their window, so it's not a very inclusive environment and the medium still has this stigma of being for nerds and socially underdeveloped people," says North, whose webcomic, "Daily Dinosaur Comics," is viewed by an average of more than 100,000 people each day online.


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