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Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

Brian K. Vaughan

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Brian K. Vaughan
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 17
Comics Writer
Screenwriter
Television Producer
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Cleveland
Ohio
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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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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.
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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.
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I'm just grateful to finally be telling a story with all females at the lead.
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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. Adaptations are great, but for me, comics have always been the destination, not a stepping-stone to get somewhere else.
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When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.
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I've written about teenage heroes before, on Marvel's Runaways, and I remember at the time when I pitched it, it was a team that had more female members than males. Even that caused of much discussion about, Will there be a market for this, and should there at least be equal number of male and females?
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Reef aquariums are definitely the pinnacle of the hobby.
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Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.
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Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree?
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Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.
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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.
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My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.
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Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.
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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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Print and digital comics will always coexist.
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Each collected edition of Paper Girls that we put out will largely be set in an entirely different era.
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I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.
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There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.
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