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" There are so many ways to make a book or comic, but most involve doing something online. "
Ryan North
Something
Online
Book
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" Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer. "
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" A shot-down advance doesn't have to mean the end of a relationship, right? You can still be friends, as long as you're not dumb about it. "
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End
You
Relationship
" With 'Machine of Death,' we became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon in a single day. "
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Machine
Book
Death
" No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun. "
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Lot
Real
Offense
" Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity. "
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Working
Time
Lot
" 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. "
Ryan North
Try
Possible
Now
" I can see people sharing my comics and talking about them, which is very gratifying. "
Ryan North
See
People
Talking
" 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
" Everything I write should have lasers. That's my #1 rule. "
Ryan North
Everything
Should
I Write
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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 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
" It's good to have hobbies. "
Ryan North
Good
Hobbies
" 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.' "
Ryan North
Think
Character
Crazy
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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 do actually do good work! And it's hard! And I'm worth it! "
Ryan North
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. "
Ryan North
Book
Explore
Fun
" 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 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. "
Ryan North
You
Travel
Time
" 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
" 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
" When I graduated, I sort of went from school to being a cartoonist, and I couldn't draw. "
Ryan North
Sort
Draw
Being
" 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
" You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too. "
Ryan North
Hope
Will
Writing
" 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