Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here are your hosts. John Joseph Adams and David Barr

Kirtley.

Hi this is Dave. this is John and welcome to episode 93 of Geek's Guide to the

Galaxy. Our guest today is Ryan North creator of the popular web comic Dinosaur Comics, which has run for over 2,000 issues

using the exact same art and panel layout for each strip.

A kickstarter he launched for his book, To Be or Not To Be, a Choose Your Own Adventure style version of Hamlet raised well for half a million dollars, making it the most successful publishing related kickstarter ever.

He also co-edited the Short Story anthology Machine of Death, which hit number one on

Amazon.com the day of its release. A sequel This Is How You Die is Out Now.

Then stick around after the interview for a panel discussion on choose your own adventure books.

All right, so let's get to our interview.

All right, so we're here with Ryan North. Welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

All right, so you have a lot of projects you've been doing, but it all started with your web series

Dinosaur Comics. So you want to tell us about that?

Oh yeah, that's a comic where it's the same pictures all the time and I change the words and it's

better than it sounds what I always say.

And that came out of me wanting to do a comic and not being able to draw.

And so I had this brilliant idea for a comic

where it would be the same story every time with different pictures and you know that's

the exact wrong project for me to be doing.

I can't draw and I thought well maybe I flipped this and have the same pictures and different

story would work and ten years later I guess it did.

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