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" Social media has been a great change. It's also a great way to disseminate comics and market them. "
Ryan North
Change
Great
Media
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" 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. "
Ryan North
True
Challenge
Be True
" Librarians are awesome; I don't care who knows it. "
Ryan North
Who
Awesome
Knows
" I can see people sharing my comics and talking about them, which is very gratifying. "
Ryan North
See
People
Talking
" 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. "
Ryan North
Point Of View
Point
View
" It turns out childbirth is really... messy. "
Ryan North
Childbirth
Really
Out
" It's a lot harder for an author that's unpublished to say, 'Hey, here's a new book.'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. "
Ryan North
Work
Reputation
You
" The nice thing about Squirrel Girl is that she's smart, and she looks for situations that don't necessarily involve punching people all the time. "
Ryan North
Girl
She
People
" 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. "
Ryan North
Art
Great
Succeed
" I thought there was something inherently interesting in people turning to gold. It's pretty cool. "
Ryan North
Thought
Interesting
Gold
" I'd hate to be writing 'Adventure Time' comics and not be excited about it. "
Ryan North
Excited
Adventure
Hate
" The first mp3 I downloaded, which I guess was illegal, was a symphonic rendering of the Super Mario Brothers 1-1 theme song. It was great. I was like, 'This is blowing MIDI files out of the water. This is the future, right here.' "
Ryan North
Right
Song
Theme
" It's good to have hobbies. "
Ryan North
Good
Hobbies
" 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. "
Ryan North
Children
Talking
Literature
" 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
" What I thought would be fun would be Squirrel Girl being this computer science student, working in STEM, because you don't see a lot of characters there, never mind female characters. Also, I studied computer science, so it's not too hard to write. "
Ryan North
Fun
Girl
Science
" 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
" With 'Machine of Death,' we became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon in a single day. "
Ryan North
Machine
Book
Death
" No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun. "
Ryan North
Lot
Real
Offense
" You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea. "
Ryan North
Still
Dumb
Everyone
" 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
" 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
Think
Me
Never
" 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
" 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. "
Ryan North
Funny
Cool
Character
" 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. "
Ryan North
Hit
People
Want
" 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
" 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. "
Ryan North
Crazy
New Things
Doing
" The great thing about online comics is that this happens naturally, even if you don't advertise. "
Ryan North
You
Great
Online
" 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
" There's tons of people doing awesome things with comics online - I'm just one dude! "
Ryan North
People
Things
Doing
" Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity. "
Ryan North
Working
Time
Lot