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The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.

Brian K. Vaughan

I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, “This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends.” It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I’d been spoon-fed.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Childhood Friend Kids Real Refresh
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
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Adaptation Men People
I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Kids People Thinking
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Before Children Forty Now Think
No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Adventure Cowboy Play
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Drama Teenager Writing
The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Comics Imagination Limited
A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Artists Letters Scripts
Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Mean Past 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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Childhood Girl Stand
Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, “Avengers assemble?” “It’s clobberin’ time?” “Hulk smash?” Nico: “Try not to die.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Cry Guy Rallying Trying
It was interesting looking back at the ’80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time – the cliché of history repeating itself.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

History Interesting Itself Repeats Trying
That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Budgets Comic Imagination
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Boys Girl Happen Kids Suddenly
Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Immigration Trying Writing

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