I’m 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the ’80s and think back.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANAdaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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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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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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The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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I like being around teenagers. It’s good for drama; they feel everything much more intensely than adults do, their lives are much more interesting than ours. They’re mutants. They have these weird bodies that are rebelling against them and changing every day. Teenagers always equal good drama.
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Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
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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 love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is our best so far.
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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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Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
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I know I’m a grumpy old man, but I’m always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to have their favorite comics be “elevated” into another medium.
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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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