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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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Brian K. Vaughan
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 17
Comics Writer
Screenwriter
Television Producer
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Cleveland
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Hollywood
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