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" 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

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Ryan North

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Feel

" 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. "

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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. "

Ryan North

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" My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-your-own-path format. It was a great fit for a book where you control what happens - a book as game - because the plot of 'Hamlet' is very game-like: get a mission from a ghost to kill the final boss, kill the final boss, and game over. You win. "

" 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. "

" Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" It's good to have hobbies. "

Ryan North

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

" There's tons of people doing awesome things with comics online - I'm just one dude! "