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" You can always take on more projects; it just makes your life worse and worse. "
Ryan North
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" 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. "
Ryan North
Character
Age
Girl
" There's only one Squirrel Girl! "
Ryan North
Squirrel
Only
Girl
" 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
Like
" 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
" There are so many ways to make a book or comic, but most involve doing something online. "
Ryan North
Something
Online
Book
" There's tons of people doing awesome things with comics online - I'm just one dude! "
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People
Things
Doing
" It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full. "
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Write
Satisfying
Story
" Everything I write should have lasers. That's my #1 rule. "
Ryan North
Everything
Should
I Write
" 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!' "
Ryan North
Thinking
Think
Success
" 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 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 thought there was something inherently interesting in people turning to gold. It's pretty cool. "
Ryan North
Thought
Interesting
Gold
" 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
" 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. "
Ryan North
Think
Thinking
Time
" Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity. "
Ryan North
Working
Time
Lot
" I do actually do good work! And it's hard! And I'm worth it! "
Ryan North
Work
Worth It
Worth
" '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. "
Ryan North
Stars
Time
Evil
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Ryan North
Know
Experience
Animal
" It turns out childbirth is really... messy. "
Ryan North
Childbirth
Really
Out
" Librarians are awesome; I don't care who knows it. "
Ryan North
Who
Awesome
Knows
" 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
" 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 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
" 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! "
Ryan North
Work
Worry
You
" Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer. "
Ryan North
Computer
Words
Won
" I can see people sharing my comics and talking about them, which is very gratifying. "
Ryan North
See
People
Talking
" With 'Machine of Death,' we became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon in a single day. "
Ryan North
Machine
Book
Death