I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn’t be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANYeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.
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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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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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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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I love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is our best so far.
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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 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.
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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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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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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.
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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 think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.
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Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
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