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" 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

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Ryan North

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" 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. "

" You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea. "

" 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. "

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

" It turns out childbirth is really... messy. "

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

" No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun. "

" 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. "

" There are so many ways to make a book or comic, but most involve doing something online. "

" 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. "

" You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing. "

" '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. "

" There's only one Squirrel Girl! "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" Social media has been a great change. It's also a great way to disseminate comics and market them. "

" This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool. "

" When I graduated, I sort of went from school to being a cartoonist, and I couldn't draw. "

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

" 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. "