Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANPacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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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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Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
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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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Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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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 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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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 think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
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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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I’ve always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
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To try and imagine that I’m another person is always going to be hard – whether I’m writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who’s trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.
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I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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