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" You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea. "
Ryan North
Still
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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 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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" The idea of taking command of your life and doing something that you're not sure if you can do and you're not really sure if you should do it, I think is pretty timeless. We all face those doubts often, if not constantly. "
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" Everything I write should have lasers. That's my #1 rule. "
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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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" The great thing about online comics is that this happens naturally, even if you don't advertise. "
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" 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. "
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" It's good to have hobbies. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I'd hate to be writing 'Adventure Time' comics and not be excited about it. "
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" With 'Machine of Death,' we became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon in a single day. "
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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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" I believe that a good comic script can succeed despite being drawn badly, but that a bad script can't be saved by good art. Of course, great writing and great illustration makes for a great comic 100 percent of the time. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I never actually watched 'Teletubbies.' Maybe I missed out. "
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Maybe
Missed
" 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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" It's actually deeply satisfying to write a story out in full. "
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" You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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