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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
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Be True
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" Everything I write should have lasers. That's my #1 rule. "
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" 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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" I actually put Jubilee in 'Squirrel Girl.' I made it a priority. "
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" Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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Thinking
Time
" 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!' "
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Think
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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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Hard
Awards
" 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! "
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Worry
You
" 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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Way
" 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
" 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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You
Think
" It's good to have hobbies. "
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Hobbies
" 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. "
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You
Great
Good
" I believe good writing can save bad art. "
Ryan North
Good
Writing
Believe
" 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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Words
Reason
Mistake
" There's tons of people doing awesome things with comics online - I'm just one dude! "
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People
Things
Doing
" 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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Age
Girl
" 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. "
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She
People
" I read all these Marvel wikis, and there are characters that just stand out to you, and you think, 'How is this character not being used? This is crazy.' "
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Think
Character
Crazy
" 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! "
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Degree
Now
Squirrel
" I can see people sharing my comics and talking about them, which is very gratifying. "
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People
Talking
" I do actually do good work! And it's hard! And I'm worth it! "
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Work
Worth It
Worth
" 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. "
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Explore
Fun
" It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full. "
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Satisfying
Story
" The great thing about online comics is that this happens naturally, even if you don't advertise. "
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You
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Online
" Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics. "
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Being
Work
Well
" 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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Possible
Now
" 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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New Things
Doing
" 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! "
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Hidden
Nice