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Brian K. Vaughan

Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Adaptation Comics Destination Great Stepping
After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there’s no better place for new ideas than comics.
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Hollywood Ideas Years
I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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Afraid Love Without World
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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Factor Mention Names Talking Two
Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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Good Matter Partnership
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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Bodies Everything Teenagers Weird
I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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Perspective Stills
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of ‘Star Wars.’
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Fiction Stars Stories War
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
A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
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Artists Letters Scripts
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
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
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
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Artists Editors Stories
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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Body Heart Men
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
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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