Ryan North

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“There's only one Squirrel Girl!”