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. VAUGHANI 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.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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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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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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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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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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There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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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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A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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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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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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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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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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It 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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