It was interesting looking back at the ’80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time – the cliché of history repeating itself.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANI 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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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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I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
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Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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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 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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There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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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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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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The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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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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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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Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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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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