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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANI 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.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.
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How is it possible that our parents lied to us?” “Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You’re the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that…” “Everythings going to be alright.
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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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I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland in 1988 and there was just one year where suddenly all of the delivery kids that used to be boys were suddenly girls. It happened at our church too. Altar boys were suddenly altar girls.
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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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Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there’s room in our hearts for so few.
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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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I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
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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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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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My mom once told me that a good relationship isn’t where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.
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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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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 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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