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" 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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" I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends. "

Ryan North

Dude

Friends

Anchor

" 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. "

" It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way. "

" I believe good writing can save bad art. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" It turns out childbirth is really... messy. "

" Social media has been a great change. It's also a great way to disseminate comics and market them. "

" You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" There's only one Squirrel Girl! "

" Everything I write should have lasers. That's my #1 rule. "

" No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun. "

" You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing. "

" I do actually do good work! And it's hard! And I'm worth it! "

" I thought there was something inherently interesting in people turning to gold. It's pretty cool. "

" Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics. "

" There's tons of people doing awesome things with comics online - I'm just one dude! "

" 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. "

" 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

Survive

People

" 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. "

" It's good to have hobbies. "

Ryan North

Good

Hobbies

" '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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "