Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
BRIAN K. VAUGHANLife is mostly just learning how to lose.
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I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager.
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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn’t be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.
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I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.
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We’ve all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they’re all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.
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If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
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Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, “This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends.” It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I’d been spoon-fed.
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We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It’s a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.
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I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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It was interesting looking back at the ’80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time – the cliché of history repeating itself.
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Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of ‘Star Wars.’
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Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger’s doorstep. No matter how we’re eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.
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