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" There's tons of people doing awesome things with comics online - I'm just one dude! "
Ryan North
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" 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. "
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" Social media has been a great change. It's also a great way to disseminate comics and market them. "
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" You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing. "
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" When I graduated, I sort of went from school to being a cartoonist, and I couldn't draw. "
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" 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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" Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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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" Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity. "
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Lot
" It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full. "
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Story
" 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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Success
" 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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" I believe good writing can save bad art. "
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" There's only one Squirrel Girl! "
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" I thought there was something inherently interesting in people turning to gold. It's pretty cool. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Sometimes I feel like I must be hinting at this deep well of knowledge when, really, I just skim off the surface. "
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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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" 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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