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Brian K. Vaughan
Born: 1976, Cleveland, Ohio
Education: New York University, Bachelor’s Degree, Film and Dramatic Writing, graduated 1998
Horror, Science Fiction or Fantasy work
Y: The Last Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y:_The_Last_Man) #1-60 (scheduled to conclude late 2007)
Ex Machina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Machina_%28comics%29) #1-present
Runaways (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaways_%28comics%29) (Vol. 1) #1-18, (Vol. 2) #1-24
Pride of Baghdad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_of_Baghdad) Graphic Novel
Other Comics: Marvel, DC/Vertigo/Wildstorm, Darkhorse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_K._Vaughan)
Lost (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_%28TV_series%29) TV Series (Executive Story Editor)
Biography
Born in Cleveland in 1976, Brian K. Vaughan is the Eisner, Harvey, and Shuster Award-winning writer and co-creator of the critically acclaimed comics series Y: The Last Man, Runaways, and Ex Machina (picked as one of the ten best works of fiction of 2005 by Entertainment Weekly).
Recently named "Writer of the Year" by Wizard Magazine, and one of the “top ten comic writers of all time” by Comic Book Resources, Vaughan’s work has been featured and/or reviewed in countless mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, MTV, National Public Radio, and feminist magazine Bust, which photographed him for their “Men We Love” issue (don’t ask).
As an undergraduate film student at New York University, Vaughan got his big break as part of Marvel’s Stanhattan Project, a workshop for aspiring comic book writers. In the ten years since, he has written nearly all of the major DC and Marvel characters, everyone from Batman to the X-Men.
In September of 2006, Vertigo released Vaughan’s first original graphic novel, Pride of Baghdad, lavishly illustrated by artist Niko Henrichon. Inspired by an unbelievable true story of four lions who escaped the Baghdad Zoo during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Pride is equal parts anthropomorphic adventure and Animal Farm-like parable about the ongoing conflict in Iraq, and was described as "the best novel so far" about the war by the UK's Telegraph.
Along with his creator-owned work, Vaughan is currently writing The Escapists, a Dark Horse miniseries inspired by Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, as well as a new Doctor Strange limited series for Marvel with artist Marcos Martin.
This summer, the new WGA member/CAA client transplanted his poor playwright wife to Los Angeles, where Vaughan is currently working on the screenplay adaptations of Y and Ex Machina for New Line Cinema, as well as other new creations in film and television.
source (http://www.bkv.tv/pages/bio.html)
* Vaughan joined the staff of the TV show Lost as Executive Story Editor in December of 2006.
AfterEllen.com: So what is your background?
Brian Vaughan: I was born in Cleveland in 1976. Typical suburban up bringing, went to an all-boys Catholic high school, and college at NYU. Basically, I'm another boring white bald dude named Brian who writes comics.
AE: What was your favorite book(s) when you first got interested in comics and why?
BV: I had a lousy speech impediment when I was little (I couldn't pronounce my R’s), so to avoid Elmer Fudd jokes, I quietly kept to myself most of the time. Comic books were a tremendous escape for me, and characters like Spider-Man and Superman, who were mild-mannered, ineffective nerds who were able to transform themselves into lovable heroes, were hugely appealing, for obvious reasons.
I grew up with comics, and comics grew up with me. I was weaned on Marvel and DC, but soon graduated to the sophisticated stories of British writers like Alan Moore, who showed that super-heroes could work as powerful metaphors for the human condition, not just adolescent power fantasies. From there, I discovered the work of so-called underground cartoonists like Adrian Tomine, Joe Sacco and Chester Brown, who showed me that comics didn't even have to be about super-heroes they could be autobiographical, they could be works of journalism, they could be slice-of-life dramas grounded in the real world.
source (http://www.afterellen.com/archive/ellen/Print/2005/7/vaughan.html)
NR: Did you wind up finishing film school?
BKV: I ended up finishing for whatever that’s worth. It’s a good experience because obviously you can’t go to college to write comics nor should you, I think. But I think film school is probably as close to that as possible since there’s a lot to be gained from learning the three-act structure. Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.
NR: So you’re not really interested in pursuing a career in directing?
BKV: I don’t know, I go back in fourth. Being in film school, every film you work on is sort of like a failed science experiment where you set up these lofty goals and it always goes terribly awry. It’s really frustrating. Whereas comics are a lot of fun to work on because you have a limitless budget and you have a lot more control over the finished product. So I know there’s more money to be had in Hollywood, but for me the creative freedom that comes with comics is more appealing. Down the line if I could be in a position where I could be in a little more control over what happened in the movie maybe I would, but I don’t really have the hunger right now.
source (http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/interviews/18.html)
Brian K. Vaughan quotes
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. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.
—Ain't It Cool News interview
I just make crap up more than anything else.
—Ain't It Cool News interview
It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.
—Ain't It Cool News interview
But Cruise is really good! The man is a complete wackadoo, but so is every great actor who ever lived. You gotta separate the artist from his/her art, or you won't be able to enjoy anything. I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!
—BKV on War of the Worlds
"Writer's block" is just another word for video games. If you want to be a writer, get writing, you lazy bastards.
—MySpace blog, 09 April 2007
source (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brian_K._Vaughan)
Awards and nominations
Eisner Award (2005) for Best Writer, for his work on Y: The Last Man, Runaways, Ex Machina and Marvel's Ultimate X-Men, and for Best New Series (along with artists Tony Harris and Tom Feister) for Ex Machina.
Nominated for five Eisners in 2006: Best Writer; Best Single Issue, Best Serialized Story and Best Continuing Series for Ex Machina; and Best Serialized Story for Y: The Last Man.[2]
"Comic's Best Writer" (2006), Wizard magazine.
source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_K._Vaughan)
Brian K. Vaughan Web Site (http://www.bkv.tv/)
BKV on Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/briankvaughan)
Brian K. Vaughan
Born: 1976, Cleveland, Ohio
Education: New York University, Bachelor’s Degree, Film and Dramatic Writing, graduated 1998
Horror, Science Fiction or Fantasy work
Y: The Last Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y:_The_Last_Man) #1-60 (scheduled to conclude late 2007)
Ex Machina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Machina_%28comics%29) #1-present
Runaways (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaways_%28comics%29) (Vol. 1) #1-18, (Vol. 2) #1-24
Pride of Baghdad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_of_Baghdad) Graphic Novel
Other Comics: Marvel, DC/Vertigo/Wildstorm, Darkhorse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_K._Vaughan)
Lost (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_%28TV_series%29) TV Series (Executive Story Editor)
Biography
Born in Cleveland in 1976, Brian K. Vaughan is the Eisner, Harvey, and Shuster Award-winning writer and co-creator of the critically acclaimed comics series Y: The Last Man, Runaways, and Ex Machina (picked as one of the ten best works of fiction of 2005 by Entertainment Weekly).
Recently named "Writer of the Year" by Wizard Magazine, and one of the “top ten comic writers of all time” by Comic Book Resources, Vaughan’s work has been featured and/or reviewed in countless mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, MTV, National Public Radio, and feminist magazine Bust, which photographed him for their “Men We Love” issue (don’t ask).
As an undergraduate film student at New York University, Vaughan got his big break as part of Marvel’s Stanhattan Project, a workshop for aspiring comic book writers. In the ten years since, he has written nearly all of the major DC and Marvel characters, everyone from Batman to the X-Men.
In September of 2006, Vertigo released Vaughan’s first original graphic novel, Pride of Baghdad, lavishly illustrated by artist Niko Henrichon. Inspired by an unbelievable true story of four lions who escaped the Baghdad Zoo during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Pride is equal parts anthropomorphic adventure and Animal Farm-like parable about the ongoing conflict in Iraq, and was described as "the best novel so far" about the war by the UK's Telegraph.
Along with his creator-owned work, Vaughan is currently writing The Escapists, a Dark Horse miniseries inspired by Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, as well as a new Doctor Strange limited series for Marvel with artist Marcos Martin.
This summer, the new WGA member/CAA client transplanted his poor playwright wife to Los Angeles, where Vaughan is currently working on the screenplay adaptations of Y and Ex Machina for New Line Cinema, as well as other new creations in film and television.
source (http://www.bkv.tv/pages/bio.html)
* Vaughan joined the staff of the TV show Lost as Executive Story Editor in December of 2006.
AfterEllen.com: So what is your background?
Brian Vaughan: I was born in Cleveland in 1976. Typical suburban up bringing, went to an all-boys Catholic high school, and college at NYU. Basically, I'm another boring white bald dude named Brian who writes comics.
AE: What was your favorite book(s) when you first got interested in comics and why?
BV: I had a lousy speech impediment when I was little (I couldn't pronounce my R’s), so to avoid Elmer Fudd jokes, I quietly kept to myself most of the time. Comic books were a tremendous escape for me, and characters like Spider-Man and Superman, who were mild-mannered, ineffective nerds who were able to transform themselves into lovable heroes, were hugely appealing, for obvious reasons.
I grew up with comics, and comics grew up with me. I was weaned on Marvel and DC, but soon graduated to the sophisticated stories of British writers like Alan Moore, who showed that super-heroes could work as powerful metaphors for the human condition, not just adolescent power fantasies. From there, I discovered the work of so-called underground cartoonists like Adrian Tomine, Joe Sacco and Chester Brown, who showed me that comics didn't even have to be about super-heroes they could be autobiographical, they could be works of journalism, they could be slice-of-life dramas grounded in the real world.
source (http://www.afterellen.com/archive/ellen/Print/2005/7/vaughan.html)
NR: Did you wind up finishing film school?
BKV: I ended up finishing for whatever that’s worth. It’s a good experience because obviously you can’t go to college to write comics nor should you, I think. But I think film school is probably as close to that as possible since there’s a lot to be gained from learning the three-act structure. Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.
NR: So you’re not really interested in pursuing a career in directing?
BKV: I don’t know, I go back in fourth. Being in film school, every film you work on is sort of like a failed science experiment where you set up these lofty goals and it always goes terribly awry. It’s really frustrating. Whereas comics are a lot of fun to work on because you have a limitless budget and you have a lot more control over the finished product. So I know there’s more money to be had in Hollywood, but for me the creative freedom that comes with comics is more appealing. Down the line if I could be in a position where I could be in a little more control over what happened in the movie maybe I would, but I don’t really have the hunger right now.
source (http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/interviews/18.html)
Brian K. Vaughan quotes
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. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.
—Ain't It Cool News interview
I just make crap up more than anything else.
—Ain't It Cool News interview
It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.
—Ain't It Cool News interview
But Cruise is really good! The man is a complete wackadoo, but so is every great actor who ever lived. You gotta separate the artist from his/her art, or you won't be able to enjoy anything. I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!
—BKV on War of the Worlds
"Writer's block" is just another word for video games. If you want to be a writer, get writing, you lazy bastards.
—MySpace blog, 09 April 2007
source (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brian_K._Vaughan)
Awards and nominations
Eisner Award (2005) for Best Writer, for his work on Y: The Last Man, Runaways, Ex Machina and Marvel's Ultimate X-Men, and for Best New Series (along with artists Tony Harris and Tom Feister) for Ex Machina.
Nominated for five Eisners in 2006: Best Writer; Best Single Issue, Best Serialized Story and Best Continuing Series for Ex Machina; and Best Serialized Story for Y: The Last Man.[2]
"Comic's Best Writer" (2006), Wizard magazine.
source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_K._Vaughan)
Brian K. Vaughan Web Site (http://www.bkv.tv/)
BKV on Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/briankvaughan)