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. VAUGHANTo 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.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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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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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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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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Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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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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The longer I’ve been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you’ll just be disappointed. You can’t force them to draw every image that’s in your head.
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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.
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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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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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Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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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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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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Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, “Avengers assemble?” “It’s clobberin’ time?” “Hulk smash?” Nico: “Try not to die.
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