Brian K. Vaughan Biography

Brian K. Vaughan was born on July 17, 1976, at Cleveland, Ohio. Vaughan, very well known for the comic book series Y, The Last Man, is an American comic book and television writer, who did: Ex Machina, Runaways, Pride of Baghdad, Saga, and Paper Girls which he did most recently.

Brian K. Vaughan Age

Brian K. Vaughan was born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States on  July 17, 1976. He is 43 years old as of 2019.

Brian K. Vaughan Wife

Brian K. Vaughan has a wife who is a native of Ottawa, Canada, and playwright. The couple has two children and they currently, reside in Los Angeles.

Brian K. Vaughan Net Worth

An American comic book and television writer, best known for his comics, it is obvious that he has a good amount of wealth. Brian K. Vaughan’s estimated Net Worth is around $10 Million with a salary of $1,000,000 Per Year and $2,739.73 per day. However, information about his assets is still under review but will be updated as soon as possible.

Brian K. Vaughan Saga

Saga written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Fiona Staples is an epic space opera/fantasy comic book series published monthly by the American company Image Comics. Saga is based on ideas Vaughan conceived both as a child and as a parent and is heavily influenced by Star Wars.

It shows Alana and Marko a wife and husband, from long-warring extraterrestrial races. The couple struggles to care of their daughter, Hazel and still fleeing authorities from both sides of a galactic war. Hazel is born at the beginning of the series and who occasionally narrates the series as an unseen adult.

The comic was criticized as evocative of both science fiction and fantasy epics such as The Lord of the Rings and classic works like Romeo and Juliet and in solicitations as “Star Wars meets Game of Thrones.” It is Vaughan’s first time to employ narration in his comics writing and first creator-owned work to be published through Image Comics.

On March 14, 2012, the first issue of Saga was published to positive reviews and a sold-out first printing. In October 2012, it was published in trade paperback form. Its collected editions outsold those of The Walking Dead, another successful Image comic. It has been a consistent sales success.

Saga is one of the most celebrated comics being published in the United States. Saga has been met with wide critical acclaim and between 2013 and 2017, it has garnered numerous awards, including twelve Eisner and seventeen Harvey Awards. The first trade paperback collection has been noted for its diverse portrayal of ethnicity, sexuality, and gender social roles, and for its treatment of war. It won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story.

Brian K. Vaughan Career

Marvel Comics’ Tales From the Age of Apocalypse #2 in December 1996 was Vaughan’s first credit was for. Brian K. Vaughan wrote for some of the highest-profile characters at Marvel, including X-Men, Spider-Man, and Captain America. He wrote Batman and Green Lantern for DC Comics, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight for Dark Horse Comics.

Vaughan preferred writing his own characters from 2002 to 2008. Vaughan wrote the creator-owned monthly series Y: The Last Man, about the only man to survive the apparent simultaneous death of every male mammal on Earth in a post-apocalyptic science fiction series. In 2005 and 2008, The series received Eisner Awards and numerous other nominations. New Line Cinema acquired the film rights to the series. In March 2012, it was reported that Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia were in final negotiations to write their own version after Vaughan wrote his own screenplay for the project.

He published the graphic novel Pride of Baghdad in 2006, which centers on a group of lions who escape from an Iraqi zoo after the start of the Iraq War. The book was named the Best Original Graphic Novel of 2006 by IGN, calling it a “modern classic”, lauding it for combining a tale of a family with a powerful analogy of war, survival and praising Vaughan for representing various viewpoints through the different lion characters.

Brian K. Vaughan wrote another creator-owned series, Ex Machina from 2004 to 2010, about a former superhero known as the Great Machine who as a political thriller that depicts the life of Mitchell Hundred, who is elected Mayor of New York City in the wake of his heroism during the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The story is interwoven with flashbacks to his past as the Great Machine and set during Hundred’s term in office. The series explores both the mysteries surrounding Hundreds’ superpowers and the political situations he finds himself in. In July 2005, New Line Cinema purchased the film rights to the series and commissioned him to write one of the two commissioned scripts, which he was reported to be working on in 2007.

In 2010 after Vaughan completed Ex Machina he emphasized his previous statement that he would concentrate on creator-owned work, he said that he realized when he turned in the final Ex Machina script that it would be the first time he wasn’t under some kind of deadline at Marvel or DC since 1996.

Seasons 3 to 5 on the ABC TV series Lost were written, story edited and produced by Vaughan, a job he earned on the basis of his work on Y: Lost co-creator and executive producer Damon Lindelof was an ardent fan of the Last Man. The book was cast to series showrunner and executive producer Carlton Cuse by Lindelof.

He wrote a total of 7 episodes, the last of which was the April 2009 episode “Dead Is Dead”. Vaughan was first credited as a producer with the fourth-season premiere “The Beginning of the End”, he also produced a total of 29 episodes. Vaughan was also a co-producer on Lost: Missing Pieces, a spinoff Internet short film series produced during the hiatus between the show’s third and fourth seasons.

Brian K. Vaughan was selected by Steven Spielberg to adapt the Stephen King novel Under the Dome into a television series for Showtime In November 2011, which is Vaughan’s first television work since Lost. He exited the show before the second season premiered in 2014 where he was the showrunner and executive producer of the series.

The first issue of Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ epic space opera/fantasy series On March 14, 2012, was published by Image Comics. Saga, which he conceived to be a concept strictly relegated to comics, and not adapted to other media. Vaughan started writing the series when his wife became pregnant with his second child, which harbors parenthood as an underlying theme although he was a child when he first had the ideas for the book – which owes its inspiration to Star Wars.

It shows two aliens from warring races trying to survive with their newborn daughter. In the book, he has employed first-person narration in his comics writing which was Vaughan’s first publication for Image Comics. The first issue sold out of its first printing ahead of its March 14 release date, with a second printing ordered for April 11, the same release date for issue #2. The series has received positive reviews from MTV.

Brian K. Vaughan published the first issue of The Private Eye with artist Marcos Martín on Panel Syndicate in March 2013, a pay-what-you-want host for their creative efforts. DRM-Free comics available for purchase/download for whatever price readers wish to pay is offered by Panel Syndicate. Vaughan and Martin published 10 issues of The Private Eye and released the first issue of Barrier in late 2015 through Panel Syndicate.

It was announced at the Image Expo in January 2015 that Vaughan would release two new books through Image Comics in 2015: Paper Girls with Cliff Chiang and Matthew Wilson.

Brian K. Vaughan TV Shows

• Lost (2006–2009)
• 3.17 – “Catch-22” – April 18, 2007 (with Jeff Pinkner)
• Missing Piece #3 (PC #101) – “King of the Castle” – November 20, 2007
• Missing Piece #5 (PC #106) – “Operation: Sleeper” – December 3, 2007
• 4.02 – “Confirmed Dead” – February 7, 2008 (with Drew Goddard)
• 4.08 – “Meet Kevin Johnson” – March 20, 2008 (with Elizabeth Sarnoff)
• 4.09 – “The Shape of Things to Come” – April 24, 2008 (with Drew Goddard)
• 5.04 – “The Little Prince” – February 4, 2009 (with Melinda Hsu Taylor)
• 5.09 – “Namaste” – March 18, 2009 (with Paul Zbyszewski)
• 5.12 – “Dead is Dead” – April 8, 2009 (with Elizabeth Sarnoff)
• Under the Dome (2013-2014) – the showrunner, executive producer, writer

Brian K. Vaughan Films

• Untitled Silver Surfer film (TBA)  – Writer
• Untitled Mobile Suit Gundam film (TBA) – Writer