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.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANThere’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
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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’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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There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
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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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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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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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The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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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.
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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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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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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’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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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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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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