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Brian K. Vaughan

I write comic books with naughty words in them.

About Me

Hard at work on a million new projects, so I'm afraid I won't be reading messages or approving comments here for the foreseeable future.But much love to everyone at MySpace, especially those of you who offered my fellow writers and me your support during the strike.Be seeing you.

My Interests

Travel, skepticism, journalism

I'd like to meet:

A cadre of loyal readers of Y: THE LAST MAN, RUNAWAYS, EX MACHINA, and THE ESCAPISTS, willing to spread the word about these books that I write by any means necessary.

Music:

Chop Chop, Eels, Talking Heads, Summer Villains, Bowie, Pixies, Aimee Mann

Movies:

Kubrick, Coen Brothers, Orson Welles, Hitchcock, Scorsese, Spielberg, Tarantino, Coppola, Polanski

Television:

All Whedon, Deadwood, Rome, The Shield, Daily Show, Battlestar, Arrested Development, LOST

Books:

Day of the Locust, 1984, Catch-22, Watchmen, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, To Kill a Mockingbird, Optic Nerve, random Bogosian novels, Eightball, a million books I'm forgetting...And since someone asked, my FAVORITE PLAYS:All Chekhov (especially SEAGULL), Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN, Sondheim's ASSASSINS, Tom Stoppard's ARCADIA, Sam Shepard's TOOTH OF CRIME, most Shakespeare, Mamet's EDMUND, Kenneth Lonergan's LOBBY HERO, Kushner's ANGELS IN AMERICA, and Ruth McKee's THE NIGHTSHADE FAMILY

My Blog

THE END of BKV’s TOP FIVE NEW COMICS and a final update...

One last time, for those of you who won't be able to join us for Y: THE LAST PARTY at Los Angeles' Meltdown Comics this Friday (there will be some "standing room only" tix available at the door!), you...
Posted by Brian K. Vaughan on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:36:00 PST

BKV in rock stars bathroom and other insanitY

If you're as huge a fan of The Eels as I am, you can imagine how nutty it was to see Y: THE LAST MAN pop up in this recent Q Magazine interview with Mark Everett, the best singer/songwriter of his gen...
Posted by Brian K. Vaughan on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:52:00 PST

BKV's Advice on Writing Comics and Breaking In

((Reposting this for the new kids.--BKV))A ton of new traffic here after this joint got plugged in WIZARD, and I've gotten over 1,000 new messages, many of them asking for advice about writing and bre...
Posted by Brian K. Vaughan on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:20:00 PST

Read my comics for free (legally)!

A bump for the new kids...DC Comics has a FREE version of the multiple Eisner Award-winning first issue of EX MACHINA available for download right here. Check out the sci-fi political thriller that t...
Posted by Brian K. Vaughan on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:29:00 PST

F.A.Q. - PLEASE READ BEFORE SENDING A QUESTION!

Fellow MySpace Hipsters,By popular request, here are answers to my most frequently asked questions. If you have NEW questions, please post them below, so that everyone else can read them, too. (And ...
Posted by Brian K. Vaughan on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:54:00 PST

WGA STRIKE: BKV talks Lost, comics, film adaptations, etc.

***Why is the WGA striking?Because writers believe we deserve a fair share of the revenue generated by the stuff we helped to create, crazy as that sounds.There's an excellent summary of what I consid...
Posted by Brian K. Vaughan on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:45:00 PST

Janeane Garofalo Plugs Y: THE LAST MAN to Salman Rushdie, and Other Bits of Surrealism

Thanks to the two bajillion of you who emailed me this clip from HBO's REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER (the best part is about five minutes in). In the off-chance that Ms. Garofalo reads this, th...
Posted by Brian K. Vaughan on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:22:00 PST

Geek Love: BKV Interrogated by Joss Whedon

The boss interviews me over at COMIC BOOK RESOURCES, and if that doesn't sufficiently bore you, you can read about how I got the gig (and the original Faith movie that almost happened) over at NEWSARA...
Posted by Brian K. Vaughan on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:20:00 PST

BKV on MTV, plus Rosario Dawson, Amber Benson, Jeff Garlin, and more Hollywood nonsense...

I can't tell you how surreal it is to hear Kurt Loder say my initials, but thanks to producer Jennifer Vineyard for helping to edit me into something resembling coherence for this video report at MTV ...
Posted by Brian K. Vaughan on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:38:00 PST

WIRED awards Gov. Schwarzenegger, J.K. Rowling... and BKV?

As if this weren't the best year of my life already, on Friday, WIRED MAGAZINE is very generously flying me to San Francisco for an evening with the "innovators, instigators, and inventors" of The Eig...
Posted by Brian K. Vaughan on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:21:00 PST