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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.

Brian K. Vaughan

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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Book Girl Paper
Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person’s hands, and I don’t think many screenwriters can say that.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Hands Thinking Writing
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Boys Girl Happen Kids Suddenly
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Ethnicity Gay Writing
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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Country Mean People Suicide
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Childhood Friend Kids Real Refresh
I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn’t be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Imaginative Real Stories
What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there’s room in our hearts for so few.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Body Heart Men
No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.
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Adventure Cowboy Play
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. VAUGHAN

Adaptation Men People
Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Book Fan Nice
Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, “Avengers assemble?” “It’s clobberin’ time?” “Hulk smash?” Nico: “Try not to die.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Cry Guy Rallying Trying
Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger’s doorstep. No matter how we’re eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Eventually Everyone Same Strangers
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Bodies Everything Teenagers Weird
I’m 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the ’80s and think back.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Before Children Forty Now Think
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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

Internet Privacy Thinking

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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