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. VAUGHANPacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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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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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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A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.
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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 think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
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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’m still digesting the ’90s. It takes some time to get perspective.
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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.
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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 write the book for one person – for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she’ll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It’s a really weird job but I enjoy it.
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The longer I’ve been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you’ll just be disappointed. You can’t force them to draw every image that’s in your head.
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Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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We’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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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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I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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