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Brian K. Vaughan Biography

Brian Keller Vaughan (born July 17, 1976) is an American comic book and television writer, best known for the comic book series Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, Pride of Baghdad, Saga, and, most recently, Paper Girls.

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The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

Appealing, Comics, Imagination, Limited, Thing

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

Away, Comics, Imagination, Limitations, Opposites, School

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

Childhood, Like, Quite, Time, Warp

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

Afraid, Love, Without You, World

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.

Book, Enjoy, Horrific, Jobs, 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. There was just this sense that all these young women knew there were openings here to be the first of their kind.

1988, Boys, Girl, Kids, Kind, Young

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

Art, Book, Children, Game

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

Feel Better, Good Relationship, Mom, Person, Relationship

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.

History, History Repeats Itself, Interesting, Looking, Repeating, Trying

Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed. 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.

Father, Kids, Mother, Seed, Time, Way

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.

Hotline, Know, Literally, Mean, New York, Suicide

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.

Adventure, Cowboy, Cowboys, Know, Play, Williams

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. 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.

Bodies, Day, Drama, Teenager, Weird, Writing

Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you'll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.

Children, Connections, Creations, Gave, Passion

I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!

Comics, Example, Genius, Pompous

It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. 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.

Children, Completely, Creators, People, Thinking, Time

For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.

Digital, History, Long, Reasons, Shipping

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

Course, Inspiration, Mckee, Playwright, Ruth, Wife

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.

Easter, Freeze, Hurt, Kids, Possible

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.

Childhood, Kids, Real, See, Seeing

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