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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
Think
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Crazy
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" No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun. "
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" 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. "
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Point Of View
Point
View
" I believe that a good comic script can succeed despite being drawn badly, but that a bad script can't be saved by good art. Of course, great writing and great illustration makes for a great comic 100 percent of the time. "
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" 'Adventure Time' tells stories where anything can happen, but what happens is. It stars Finn, a boy who fights evil, and Jake, a dog with stretchy powers. Both of them can talk. "
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Evil
" 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. "
Ryan North
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Roads
Loved
" As all C.S. students know, first year is super easy, but second year is when things get harder. At least that's how it was in my experience. And I didn't have to save the planet between classes either. Instead, I went home and studied quietly. I was a party animal. "
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Experience
Animal
" 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! "
Ryan North
Community
Hidden
Nice
" I think with most things online, if you treat your audience like friends instead of like Impressions and Clickthrough Percentages and Returns On Investment, then you're off to a great start. "
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Think
Start
Great
" I spent age 6-12 basically thinking about 'Back to the Future' all the time, so I think it's probably had a pretty huge influence on me and the way I think and write. "
Ryan North
Think
Thinking
Time
" There's tons of people doing awesome things with comics online - I'm just one dude! "
Ryan North
People
Things
Doing
" The challenge is to stay true to the characters while also having them be entertaining every day, because it turns out that just watching someone be true to themselves isn't that rad to watch. "
Ryan North
True
Challenge
Be True
" I actually put Jubilee in 'Squirrel Girl.' I made it a priority. "
Ryan North
Made
Girl
Priority
" You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too. "
Ryan North
Hope
Will
Writing
" It turns out childbirth is really... messy. "
Ryan North
Childbirth
Really
Out
" 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. "
Ryan North
Great
You
Doing
" You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing new things with it. "
Ryan North
Crazy
New Things
Doing
" 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. "
Ryan North
Control
Boss
Game
" Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer. "
Ryan North
Computer
Words
Won
" When I graduated, I sort of went from school to being a cartoonist, and I couldn't draw. "
Ryan North
Sort
Draw
Being
" 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. "
Ryan North
Work
Reputation
You
" You can always take on more projects; it just makes your life worse and worse. "
Ryan North
Your
Always
Just
" 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. "
Ryan North
Book
Explore
Fun
" 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. "
Ryan North
You
Great
Good
" The idea of taking command of your life and doing something that you're not sure if you can do and you're not really sure if you should do it, I think is pretty timeless. We all face those doubts often, if not constantly. "
Ryan North
Pretty
You
Think
" I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle. "
Ryan North
Big Proponent
Lifestyle
Am
" It's good to have hobbies. "
Ryan North
Good
Hobbies
" 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. "
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Me
Survive
People
" 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.' "
Ryan North
Right
Song
Theme
" Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics. "
Ryan North
Being
Work
Well
" 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! "
Ryan North
Degree
Now
Squirrel