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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

I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Perspective Stills
Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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Life Loses Misty
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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Breathe Disgusting Next People Same
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Leader Superhero Writing
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
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
Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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Good Matter Partnership
There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
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Feels Late Teach
I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
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Kids People Thinking
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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Better Feel Good Mom Relationship
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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Knowing Life Stand True
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 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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Books Jobs Manipulate Thinking Writing
Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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Immigration Trying Writing
Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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More Occasional Pacifist Vegeterian
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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Case Fantasy Horror Scenario Worst

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.

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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.

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