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" A huge potential audience, great interaction with your readers, the ability to see what people like and what they don't, the ability to see how people respond to what you're doing in real-time - there's just tons of great stuff that you get by being online. "

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" I read all these Marvel wikis, and there are characters that just stand out to you, and you think, 'How is this character not being used? This is crazy.' "

Ryan North

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Crazy

" I'd hate to be writing 'Adventure Time' comics and not be excited about it. "

" I think the best villains are ones that you can look at and say, 'Yeah, he's obviously going about this the wrong way or going too far or whatever, but I can see where he's coming from.' Magneto's a great example of that, and the reason he and Charles Xavier can have such great conversations is that they can both make some good points. "

" I do actually do good work! And it's hard! And I'm worth it! "

" Squirrel Girl is basically a Silver Age character in the modern age, and that makes her a fish out of water in a lot of ways. She likes being a superhero. She likes fighting crime. She doesn't sit around brooding in the darkness of her Squirrel Hole trying to figure out new ways to make crime pay. "

" I love the idea that if you're going to travel through time, you do it in this insanely dangerous car travelling at 88 miles per hour. "

" My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-your-own-path format. It was a great fit for a book where you control what happens - a book as game - because the plot of 'Hamlet' is very game-like: get a mission from a ghost to kill the final boss, kill the final boss, and game over. You win. "

" It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way. "

" Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity. "

" Sometimes I feel like I must be hinting at this deep well of knowledge when, really, I just skim off the surface. "

Ryan North

Sometimes

Feel

" The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and figure out their different fates. "

" Everything I write should have lasers. That's my #1 rule. "

" It's a lot harder for an author that's unpublished to say, 'Hey, here's a new book.' There's nothing of theirs to read, so you don't know what it's going to be like. Kickstarter is great, but you also have to put your work out there whenever you can so you can build a reputation. "

" The great thing about online comics is that this happens naturally, even if you don't advertise. "

" My goal is for a complete collection of 'Squirrel Girl' comics to be equivalent to a C.S. bachelor degree. Now there's a comic that increases in value! "

" As a kid, I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing - and I think seeing the 'Adventure Time' universe rendered by the artists in those stories will scratch that same itch really well. "

" The nice thing about Squirrel Girl is that she's smart, and she looks for situations that don't necessarily involve punching people all the time. "

" With 'Machine of Death,' we became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon in a single day. "

" The first mp3 I downloaded, which I guess was illegal, was a symphonic rendering of the Super Mario Brothers 1-1 theme song. It was great. I was like, 'This is blowing MIDI files out of the water. This is the future, right here.' "

" A shot-down advance doesn't have to mean the end of a relationship, right? You can still be friends, as long as you're not dumb about it. "

" I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle. "

Ryan North

Big Proponent

Lifestyle

" In earlier comics, my only priority was telling a joke in the last panel, but now I try to make every panel as interesting as possible, and that normally means at least a li'l joke there. "

" The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read as comic for us. "

" It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full. "

" I thought there was something inherently interesting in people turning to gold. It's pretty cool. "

" I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends. "

" For me personally, I get to be a cartoonist, because my comic would never survive in print. Maybe one in 100 people would like it, but online, I can gather that one percent all in one place. "

Ryan North

Survive

People

" I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case it was the last. But then I talked to other cartoonists, and I realized ideas are cheap; you can have a million ideas. The tricky part is the follow-through: making good ones work, making the best out of the raw material! "

" There may be this hidden, hate-filled community of online cartoonists, but if there are, I haven't found it yet. We're all generally pretty nice people, it turns out! "

" Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer. "