You can always take on more projects; it just makes your life worse and worse. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing. — Ryan North Creative Copy Share Image
I can see people sharing my comics and talking about them, which is very gratifying. — Ryan North Comic Copy Share Image
You care a lot about these stories you're writing, and you hope that someone else will care, too. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
When I graduated, I sort of went from school to being a cartoonist, and I couldn't draw. — Ryan North Being Copy Share Image
The funny thing with Ophelia is that I remembered her being this really cool, awesome female character when I read 'Hamlet' in… — Ryan North Character Copy Share Image
It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningful way. — Ryan North Education Copy Share Image
If you're going to be adapting something across media, you should at least have the moves that people want you to hit… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
I think with most things online, if you treat your audience like friends instead of like Impressions and Clickthrough Percentages and Returns… — Ryan North Friendship Copy Share Image
Don't worry, it's very clear that the painting was done by a human, most likely a human with one eye removed and… — Ryan North Anatomy Copy Share Image
I'm totally applying assumed Creative Commons rights and ripping this post from Jason verbatim, since it says everything I want to. — Ryan North Creative Copy Share Image
I'm suddenly worried people will think that I believe their religion can be summed up on four sex-obsessed sentences. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
I've said this before, but I think one of the reason so many of the cartoonists I know have become friends is… — Ryan North Cartoonists Copy Share Image
The first mp3 I downloaded, which I guess was illegal, was a symphonic rendering of the Super Mario Brothers 1-1 theme song.… — Ryan North Brothers Copy Share Image
Writing 'Jughead' in general is a pleasure because - and I think a lot of very tall guys can agree with me… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
It's a lot harder for an author that's unpublished to say, 'Hey, here's a new book.'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,… — Ryan North Book Copy Share Image
The idea of taking command of your life and doing something that you're not sure if you can do and you're not… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
As a kid, I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing - and I think seeing… — Ryan North Adventure Copy Share Image
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… — Ryan North Books Copy Share Image
I believe that a good comic script can succeed despite being drawn badly, but that a bad script can't be saved by… — Ryan North Art Copy Share Image
As all C.S. students know, first year is super easy, but second year is when things get harder. At least that's how… — Ryan North Animal Copy Share Image
There's tons of people doing awesome things with comics online - I'm just one dude! — Ryan North Awesome Copy Share Image
We need to encourage our kids to express their feelings. We need to help them find their voice. — Ryan North Child Copy Share Image
Social media has been a great change. It's also a great way to disseminate comics and market them. — Ryan North Change Copy Share Image
Being hungover is like winning the lottery, only they pay you in regret. — Ryan North Lottery Copy Share Image
“Hey, McFly!" Has Biff returned?? No! It turns out that Howard, George's neighbour, is there! And he wants to sell him Girl… — Ryan North Girl scout Copy Share Image
The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and… — Ryan North Book Copy Share Image
The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing… — Ryan North Alive Copy Share Image
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… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
For me personally, I get to be a cartoonist, because my comic would never survive in print. Maybe one in 100 people… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
My goal is for a complete collection of 'Squirrel Girl' comics to be equivalent to a C.S. bachelor degree. Now there's a… — Ryan North Bachelor Copy Share Image
I spent age 6-12 basically thinking about 'Back to the Future' all the time, so I think it's probably had a pretty… — Ryan North Age Copy Share Image
