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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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" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I can see people sharing my comics and talking about them, which is very gratifying. "

" The great thing about online comics is that this happens naturally, even if you don't advertise. "

" I never actually watched 'Teletubbies.' Maybe I missed out. "

" I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle. "

" With 'Machine of Death,' we became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon in a single day. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-your-own-path format. It was a great fit for a book where you control what happens - a book as game - because the plot of 'Hamlet' is very game-like: get a mission from a ghost to kill the final boss, kill the final boss, and game over. You win. "

" 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.' "

" Librarians are awesome; I don't care who knows it. "

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

" When I graduated, I sort of went from school to being a cartoonist, and I couldn't draw. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I actually put Jubilee in 'Squirrel Girl.' I made it a priority. "

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

" There are so many ways to make a book or comic, but most involve doing something online. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "