Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANWe’ve all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they’re all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.
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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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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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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 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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I’m the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian’s from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it’s worked like a goddamn charm.
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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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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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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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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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A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
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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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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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I’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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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.
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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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