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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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" 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. "

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

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

" A huge potential audience, great interaction with your readers, the ability to see what people like and what they don't, the ability to see how people respond to what you're doing in real-time - there's just tons of great stuff that you get by being online. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" As a kid, I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing - and I think seeing the 'Adventure Time' universe rendered by the artists in those stories will scratch that same itch really well. "

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

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

" No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun. "

" 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! "

" You can always take on more projects; it just makes your life worse and worse. "

" 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. "

" You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It's good to have hobbies. "

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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! "

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

" 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. "

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

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