These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it’s true to life.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANImmigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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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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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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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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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
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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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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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Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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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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There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
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Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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