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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

Brian K. Vaughan

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.
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Before Children Forty Now Think
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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Drama Teenager Writing
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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Adventure Boys Female Two
The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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Comics Imagination Limited
Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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Immigration Trying Writing
The longer I’ve been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you’ll just be disappointed. You can’t force them to draw every image that’s in your head.
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Artist Giving Writing
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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Eventually Everyone Same Strangers
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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Country Mean People Suicide
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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Adaptation Men People
I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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Afraid Love Without World
A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
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Artists Letters Scripts
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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Leader Superhero Writing
I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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Book Comic Ends Stories
There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
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Feels Late Teach
I write the book for one person – for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she’ll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It’s a really weird job but I enjoy it.
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Books Jobs Manipulate Thinking Writing
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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Childhood Girl Stand

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