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" No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun. "
Ryan North
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" It's a lot harder for an author that's unpublished to say, 'Hey, here's a new book.'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. "
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Work
Reputation
You
" 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. "
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Reason
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" This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool. "
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Talk
Hard
Awards
" 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. "
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Point Of View
Point
View
" It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way. "
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Learn
Jazz
Way
" You can always take on more projects; it just makes your life worse and worse. "
Ryan North
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Just
" It's good to have hobbies. "
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Good
Hobbies
" I spent age 6-12 basically thinking about 'Back to the Future' all the time, so I think it's probably had a pretty huge influence on me and the way I think and write. "
Ryan North
Think
Thinking
Time
" I can see people sharing my comics and talking about them, which is very gratifying. "
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See
People
Talking
" Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer. "
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Computer
Words
Won
" Social media has been a great change. It's also a great way to disseminate comics and market them. "
Ryan North
Change
Great
Media
" It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full. "
Ryan North
Write
Satisfying
Story
" 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
" Sometimes I feel like I must be hinting at this deep well of knowledge when, really, I just skim off the surface. "
Ryan North
Sometimes
Feel
Like
" 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
" 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. "
Ryan North
You
Great
Good
" I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle. "
Ryan North
Big Proponent
Lifestyle
Am
" The great thing about online comics is that this happens naturally, even if you don't advertise. "
Ryan North
You
Great
Online
" 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
" I thought there was something inherently interesting in people turning to gold. It's pretty cool. "
Ryan North
Thought
Interesting
Gold
" 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. "
Ryan North
Love
People
Man
" 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
" Librarians are awesome; I don't care who knows it. "
Ryan North
Who
Awesome
Knows
" I never actually watched 'Teletubbies.' Maybe I missed out. "
Ryan North
Out
Maybe
Missed
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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True
Challenge
Be True
" There are so many ways to make a book or comic, but most involve doing something online. "
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Something
Online
Book
" You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea. "
Ryan North
Still
Dumb
Everyone
" 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