Ryan North In A Nutshell:

"The thing about Internet fame is that you wake up in the morning, you check your email and there's like six emails from someone, people you've never met telling you that you're great, which is amazing for the ego. Then you go outside and nobody knows who you are. So if you're going to be famous, it's a good kind of famous because you can turn it off and as soon as your head gets big, you realize you're just a guy sitting at a computer refreshing his emails. There are more things you could be doing."

This attitude is why Ryan is one of the happiest people I know. I'm sure there are people who tell him he sucks, too, but he doesn't waste a second thinking about those. This whole interview is very interesting, especially since it's conducted by Joshua Fruhlinger, who is no stranger to comics on the Internet, himself.