A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANHow 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.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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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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There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
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Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, “Avengers assemble?” “It’s clobberin’ time?” “Hulk smash?” Nico: “Try not to die.
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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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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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I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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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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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’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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I’m the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian’s from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it’s worked like a goddamn charm.
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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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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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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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I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.
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Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person’s hands, and I don’t think many screenwriters can say that.
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