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

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" Librarians are awesome; I don't care who knows it. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" I actually put Jubilee in 'Squirrel Girl.' I made it a priority. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" You can always take on more projects; it just makes your life worse and worse. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I can see people sharing my comics and talking about them, which is very gratifying. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Squirrel Girl is basically a Silver Age character in the modern age, and that makes her a fish out of water in a lot of ways. She likes being a superhero. She likes fighting crime. She doesn't sit around brooding in the darkness of her Squirrel Hole trying to figure out new ways to make crime pay. "

" It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full. "

" 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! "

" I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity. "

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

" It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way. "

" 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. "

" I do actually do good work! And it's hard! And I'm worth it! "

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

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

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

" It's good to have hobbies. "