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" 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

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" Sometimes I feel like I must be hinting at this deep well of knowledge when, really, I just skim off the surface. "

Ryan North

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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! "

" 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!' "

" 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. "

" 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 care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too. "

" With 'Machine of Death,' we became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon in a single day. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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" It's good to have hobbies. "

Ryan North

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" Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" There's only one Squirrel Girl! "

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

" I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends. "

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

" 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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People

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

" 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. "

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

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

" '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. "