Ryan North Quotes
Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity.
North, Ryan. "11 Questions with Ryan North." Interview by Marah Eakin. The A.V. Club, G/O Media, 2016.
In 2007 a new phenomenon appeared on the political scene where people who had taken amateur videos of politicians with inexpensive cameras or even cell phones began to “publish” them on a video web site called “U-Tube” which allowed anyone to do this for free. Suddenly the potentially or actually embarrassing video was not only able to be viewed by millions but via e-mail millions more were made aware of the video’s existence. In 24 hours an embarrassing video had more viewers then would see it on the national evening news. Brody was the first person to give it a name and warn politicians about the problem—The U-Tube Moment.
Ryan North is a Canadian writer and computer programmer. He is the creator and author of Dinosaur Comics, and has written for the comic series of Adventure Time and Marvel Comics' The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. His works have won multiple Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards and made New York Times Bestseller lists.