If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANIt was interesting looking back at the ’80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time – the cliché of history repeating itself.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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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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Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
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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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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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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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I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
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Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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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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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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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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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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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 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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