With Saga not letting up in its second year as well as by adding The personal Eye to his repertoire, Brian K. Vaughan is showing the world he continues to be a brilliant as well as clever virtuoso of comics storytelling.
With monumental hits like Y: The Last Man, Runaways, as well as Ex Machina, under his belt, Vaughan was a titan of imagination well before his present blockbusters—Saga as well as The personal Eye—really took off running. With his, as well as their successes, Vaughan has ended up being a pioneer in the comics industry, cutting a path as well as altering the method fans as well as creators alike look at comics. While he didn’t invent creator had comics, Vaughan has embraced it in a method not many others have as well as accomplished a high level of success in doing so.
Earlier this year I composed about exactly how Saga is this generation’s game altering comic. much like the method Gwen Stacy’s death is thought about by some to be the stimulate that marked the beginning of the Bronze Age of Comics, Bryan K. Vaughan’s Saga’s imaginative, bold, as well as oddly relatable stories may potentially be the stimulate that drives this generation of comics creators to disregard the dated as well as arbitrary set of censorships that guide the prominent comics today as well as reach for the stars instead.
As if one hit a year wasn’t enough, Vaughan teamed up with Marcos Martin to produce a different animal all together. A digital-only, DRM-free, full-length comic book, which isn’t that revolutionary in as well as of itself thinking about comedians like Louis CK as well as Aziz Ansari have been doing it for a couple of years, however when you take into account the “name your own price” pricing design you wouldn’t expect Vaughan as well as Martin to do that well, however they showed naysayers that the majority of the audience is willing as well as excited to pay for the content.
What is it that sets Vaughan’s composing apart? First, he makes the charm of his characters less about what they are than who they are. It doesn’t matter if his protagonists are lions, mutant kids, the last guy on Earth, or cool aliens with six arms or wings as well as magic, Vaughan’s characters believe as well as feel with all the complexity of genuine people. They’re untidy as well as flawed as well as so, so interesting. It likewise doesn’t hurt that they’re likewise extremely inventive concepts.
Secondly, Vaughan is a master of his craft. In a 2007 interview, Vaughan talks about his commitment to the three act plot structure on which western storytelling is developed upon. His stories have a beginning, a middle, as well as an end (for the most part) which provides the audience the sense that whatever we’re reading is building towards something of importance. In a market saturated with comics that publishers develop into franchises as well as that seem to want to run forever, Vaughan is not afraid to put a world to bed when the characters’ stories have run out. An obvious however weirdly brilliant idea.
Finally, as well as I’ve stated this before in other articles, however Vaughan likes comics. With things like Saga as well as Ex Machina, he’s not composing for the movie deal. He crafts the story to exist primarily on the page, which makes the reading experience much more seamless, enjoyable, as well as exciting.
For his work on Saga as well as The personal Eye, as well as for being a master storyteller as well as a pioneer in imagination as well as comics business, Brian K. Vaughan is this year’s independent writer of the year. All hail the king!