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" I never actually watched 'Teletubbies.' Maybe I missed out. "
Ryan North
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" Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity. "
Ryan North
Working
Time
Lot
" It's a lot harder for an author that's unpublished to say, 'Hey, here's a new book.'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
" There are so many ways to make a book or comic, but most involve doing something online. "
Ryan North
Something
Online
Book
" 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
" 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
" 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
" It turns out childbirth is really... messy. "
Ryan North
Childbirth
Really
Out
" I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle. "
Ryan North
Big Proponent
Lifestyle
Am
" 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
" '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'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
" 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. "
Ryan North
Know
Experience
Animal
" Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer. "
Ryan North
Computer
Words
Won
" I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends. "
Ryan North
Dude
Friends
Anchor
" It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full. "
Ryan North
Write
Satisfying
Story
" 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
Think
Roads
Loved
" Librarians are awesome; I don't care who knows it. "
Ryan North
Who
Awesome
Knows
" No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun. "
Ryan North
Lot
Real
Offense
" 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
" 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
" It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way. "
Ryan North
Learn
Jazz
Way
" There's only one Squirrel Girl! "
Ryan North
Squirrel
Only
Girl
" 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
" The funny thing with Ophelia is that I remembered her being this really cool, awesome female character when I read 'Hamlet' in high school, and when I went back and read it, no, she's not. "
Ryan North
Funny
Cool
Character
" 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. "
Ryan North
Think
Me
Never
" If you're going to be adapting something across media, you should at least have the moves that people want you to hit and that you want to hit. "
Ryan North
Hit
People
Want
" 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
" I thought there was something inherently interesting in people turning to gold. It's pretty cool. "
Ryan North
Thought
Interesting
Gold
" You always hope a book's going to be a success. I don't think I've ever written a book thinking, 'This will be bad and no-one will like it!' "
Ryan North
Thinking
Think
Success
" I do actually do good work! And it's hard! And I'm worth it! "
Ryan North
Work
Worth It
Worth