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A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.

Brian K. Vaughan

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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History Interesting Itself Repeats Trying
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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Boys Girl Happen Kids Suddenly
I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn’t be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.
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Imaginative Real Stories
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
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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Ethnicity Gay Writing
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
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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Internet Privacy Thinking
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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Case Fantasy Horror Scenario Worst
Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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Bichest Terror Yeah
Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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More Occasional Pacifist Vegeterian
I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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Book Comic Ends Stories
Next up, I’m going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.
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Breathe Disgusting Next People Same
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
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’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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Perspective Stills
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
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