After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there’s no better place for new ideas than comics.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANMy 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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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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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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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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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of ‘Star Wars.’
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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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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’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’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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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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I like being around teenagers. It’s good for drama; they feel everything much more intensely than adults do, their lives are much more interesting than ours. They’re mutants. They have these weird bodies that are rebelling against them and changing every day. Teenagers always equal good drama.
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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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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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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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