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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANThat was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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How is it possible that our parents lied to us?” “Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You’re the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that…” “Everythings going to be alright.
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We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It’s a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.
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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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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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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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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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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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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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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 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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Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, “Avengers assemble?” “It’s clobberin’ time?” “Hulk smash?” Nico: “Try not to die.
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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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