A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANI 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.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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Next up, I’m going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.
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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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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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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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Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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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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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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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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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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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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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 think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
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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.
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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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