‘Last’ man creates different world on ‘Lost’
January 31st, 2008 | by admin |Original Post here: Snikkkt!
Source: CNN
Listening to writer Brian K. Vaughan summarize the plot of his comic book, “Y: The Last Man,” makes it sound like just another pulp title.
“A plague of mysterious origin destroys every male mammal, human being and animal on the planet,” he says, “except for one boy and his monkey. And wackiness ensues.”
Well, that’s the story boiled down to its basics. But the tale of amateur escapist Yorick Brown, the last man alive on an Earth now home to only women, and his monkey, Ampersand, is actually far more complex than Vaughan’s description reveals, involving long journeys, the value of memory and the politics of gender roles. The title, which has had a very successful five-year run, is coming to an end this week with the release of issue No. 60.
It is a finale that is equally emotional for both fans and its creator.
“I guess I’ve moved into acceptance but that doesn’t mean that I’m not still depressed about it,” says Vaughan, 31, a soft-spoken Cleveland, Ohio, native who now makes his home in Los Angeles.
“It’s been weird because it’s a gradual [form of] saying good-bye,” he says. “First, you finish the script, but then it still has to be penciled and inked, and there’s so many stages in comics that it’s sort of been like the stages of death.”
Vaughan’s career in comics dates back more than a decade, but his love for the medium stretches back to his adolescence. Already an avid fan of comic books, he discovered Alan Moore’s seminal graphic novel “Watchmen” on a family vacation. It would be the spark that inspired him to give life to his own stories.
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