Rory The Dinosaur is a new children’s picture book by cartoonist Liz Climo. This is an outgrowth of her hobby, drawing cute panel comics, but she’s not quitting her day job any time soon. That’s because her day job is working on storyboards for The Simpsons. Her simple, funny and cute comics made her a familiar sight online, at Reddit and Pinterest, with a little help from George Takei.
She tells me, “I started writing the book around the same time I found out I was pregnant, and finished before [my baby] was even born (then I did most of the illustrations with her chilling in a bassinet next to me). Now that I’m a mom, I relate to the story way more than I did when I wrote it. Rory’s dad is following him around, wanting to let him have his independence while still making sure he’s safe and taken care of – something I’m very familiar with now! I just wrapped on my second Rory book, and that one Marlow gave me a ton of inspiration for. I am definitely hoping to do more, and I think being a mom has a lot to do with that.”