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" It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full. "
Ryan North
Write
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" 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! "
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Degree
Now
Squirrel
" 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
" Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer. "
Ryan North
Computer
Words
Won
" I thought there was something inherently interesting in people turning to gold. It's pretty cool. "
Ryan North
Thought
Interesting
Gold
" 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. "
Ryan North
End
You
Relationship
" You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too. "
Ryan North
Hope
Will
Writing
" 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. "
Ryan North
Art
Great
Succeed
" There's a difference between children's literature and all-ages literature. One is written expressly for children. The other is written for everyone, including children. And the difference usually manifests in not talking down to kids. "
Ryan North
Children
Talking
Literature
" 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. "
Ryan North
Think
Start
Great
" 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
Character
Crazy
" 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. "
Ryan North
Girl
She
People
" '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. "
Ryan North
Stars
Time
Evil
" I believe good writing can save bad art. "
Ryan North
Good
Writing
Believe
" This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool. "
Ryan North
Talk
Hard
Awards
" I do actually do good work! And it's hard! And I'm worth it! "
Ryan North
Work
Worth It
Worth
" Everything I write should have lasers. That's my #1 rule. "
Ryan North
Everything
Should
I Write
" It turns out childbirth is really... messy. "
Ryan North
Childbirth
Really
Out
" 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. "
Ryan North
Try
Possible
Now
" 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
" 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
" Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics. "
Ryan North
Being
Work
Well
" I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle. "
Ryan North
Big Proponent
Lifestyle
Am
" I actually put Jubilee in 'Squirrel Girl.' I made it a priority. "
Ryan North
Made
Girl
Priority
" What I thought would be fun would be Squirrel Girl being this computer science student, working in STEM, because you don't see a lot of characters there, never mind female characters. Also, I studied computer science, so it's not too hard to write. "
Ryan North
Fun
Girl
Science
" I never actually watched 'Teletubbies.' Maybe I missed out. "
Ryan North
Out
Maybe
Missed
" 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. "
Ryan North
Point Of View
Point
View
" 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! "
Ryan North
Work
Worry
You
" I've said this before, but I think one of the reason so many of the cartoonists I know have become friends is because the Internet is a much more cooperative space. "
Ryan North
Internet
Friends
Know
" You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea. "
Ryan North
Still
Dumb
Everyone
" I've never written a novel before, and part of the reason I haven't is I was worried about getting 50,000 words into a book and realizing I'd made a mistake on word three that would mean throwing everything out. "
Ryan North
Words
Reason
Mistake