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" I do actually do good work! And it's hard! And I'm worth it! "
Ryan North
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" 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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" It's good to have hobbies. "
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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.' "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I thought there was something inherently interesting in people turning to gold. It's pretty cool. "
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" 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. "
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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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Now
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" I believe good writing can save bad art. "
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Writing
Believe
" 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. "
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True
Challenge
Be True
" Sometimes I feel like I must be hinting at this deep well of knowledge when, really, I just skim off the surface. "
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Feel
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" 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. "
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Book
Explore
Fun
" 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. "
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Try
Possible
Now
" 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. "
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Reason
Mistake
" You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too. "
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Hope
Will
Writing
" I've always found it funny when people call 'Romeo and Juliet' 'the greatest love story ever told' because - man - it does not work out well for those kids, you know? I'd like to think the greatest love story ever told would at least let them be together for more than a few hours. "
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Love
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Man
" 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.' "
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Right
Song
Theme
" I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends. "
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Dude
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" It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way. "
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Learn
Jazz
Way
" 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. "
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She
People
" With 'Machine of Death,' we became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon in a single day. "
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Machine
Book
Death
" This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool. "
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Talk
Hard
Awards
" When I graduated, I sort of went from school to being a cartoonist, and I couldn't draw. "
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Sort
Draw
Being
" I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle. "
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Big Proponent
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" Writing 'Jughead' in general is a pleasure because - and I think a lot of very tall guys can agree with me on this - there was a time in my teenage years where I just ate all the time and never got full. "
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Never
" It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full. "
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Story
" 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. "
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Girl
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" I can see people sharing my comics and talking about them, which is very gratifying. "
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See
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Talking
" No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun. "
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Real
Offense
" Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer. "
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Computer
Words
Won