That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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.
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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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My mom once told me that a good relationship isn’t where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.
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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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I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
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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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Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
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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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How 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.
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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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I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager.
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A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
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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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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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Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
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