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" Librarians are awesome; I don't care who knows it. "
Ryan North
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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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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Man
" 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. "
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Children
Talking
Literature
" 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. "
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Great
You
Doing
" With 'Machine of Death,' we became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon in a single day. "
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Machine
Book
Death
" There's only one Squirrel Girl! "
Ryan North
Squirrel
Only
Girl
" Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics. "
Ryan North
Being
Work
Well
" It's good to have hobbies. "
Ryan North
Good
Hobbies
" 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
" 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
" 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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Character
Age
Girl
" 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
" This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool. "
Ryan North
Talk
Hard
Awards
" '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
" 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
" 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! "
Ryan North
Work
Worry
You
" I do actually do good work! And it's hard! And I'm worth it! "
Ryan North
Work
Worth It
Worth
" 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
Me
Survive
People
" I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle. "
Ryan North
Big Proponent
Lifestyle
Am
" 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
" The great thing about online comics is that this happens naturally, even if you don't advertise. "
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You
Great
Online
" 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. "
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Funny
Cool
Character
" 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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You
Travel
Time
" It turns out childbirth is really... messy. "
Ryan North
Childbirth
Really
Out
" 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. "
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Crazy
New Things
Doing
" It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full. "
Ryan North
Write
Satisfying
Story
" 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
" You can always take on more projects; it just makes your life worse and worse. "
Ryan North
Your
Always
Just