![]() ![]() Now, my daughter is 11, and she’s read more graphic novels in her lifetime than I have.” Then you’re starting to hit the end of things you could push on mainstream audiences. ![]() ![]() “I remember growing up in the Eighties you’d hear people say ‘comics have grown up,’” he recalls to me, talking from his home in Los Angeles, over video chat. ( Saga, the series most fans would describe as his opus, has sold around 7 million copies to date, in various forms.) He’s had enough industry awards thrown at him to furnish a pretty sizable trophy room – among them 14 Eisner Awards, 14 Harvey Awards, and a Hugo – and has built a wide and passionate fan following. Over the past couple of decades, the Ohio-born comic-book writer has helped transform and vivify the artform through works such as the post-apocalyptic Y: The Last Man (with Pia Guerra), coming-of-age sci-fi Paper Girls (with Cliff Chiang), and the ongoing Saga (with Fiona Staples), a hugely popular space opera about childhood, parenthood and pacifism. ![]() “They have never been more spectacular than they are now.” He doesn’t mention it – prudently, perhaps – but Vaughan himself is an integral part of this “golden age”. Creatively, we’re in the golden age of comic books,” says Brian K Vaughan. ![]()
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