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

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

" You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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!' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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! "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool. "

" There's only one Squirrel Girl! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "