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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned (Y: The Last Man #1)

by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra (Illustrator), José Marzán Jr. (Illustrator)

4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 · rating details · 33,618 ratings · 1,210 reviews

"Y" is none other than unemployed escape artist Yorick Brown (his father was a Shakespeare buff), and he's seemingly the only male human left alive after a mysterious plague kills all Y-chromosome carriers on earth. But why are he and his faithful companion, the often testy male monkey Ampersand, still alive? He sets out to find the answer (and his girlfriend), while runni...more

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Published January 2nd 2003 by Vertigo (first published September 2002)

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Oct 03, 2012 Nancy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recommended to Nancy by: Kemper

Shelves: comics, post-apocalyptic-dystopia, library-books, feminism, sf-fantasy

I haven’t read a comic book since I was a child, saving my measly allowance for Archie and his friends. Once I discovered my mother’s Harold Robbins novels, I never went back to comics…until now.

A number of my Goodreads friends enjoy graphic novels (as they are called now), so I became curious and asked my friend Kemper for a recommendation. Y: The Last Man was perfect for me to start with. I love post-apocalyptic stories and wanted some light, easy reading between school books.

A plague that des...more

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Dec 16, 2010 Architeuthis rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 1990s, graphic-novels

In typical comic book male-centric fashion, this series wonders what life would be like if all men died spontaneously...except for one.

I suppose if we're trying to put ourselves in the head of an early-nineties comic book reading teen, this might feel innovative. Unfortunately, I find that innovative in the world of comics is pretty much Iron Age for the rest of literature. How does Vaughan manage to make a series with gender issues at its center so bizarrely sexist?

Example: In a world where a...more

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Apr 05, 2013 StoryTellerShannon rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: need-reviewing, graphic-novels

What if all the men, except one young man and his male monkey pet, were wiped out all over the world and nobody knew why exactly? That's the setup for volume one of this series that takes a look at gender issues and progressive science versus a natural order of things. I like that the explanation for the plague is not known and there are several possibilities.

There's a fair amount of mischievous style humor in the first volume. For instance, women commemorate the dead man at an obvious phallic...more

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Sep 13, 2008 Bruce rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: teens, avid comics fans

Recommended to Bruce by: Washington Post comics blog commenter

I've read so much here and elsewhere about how brilliant this series is, and from the two books I've read, I'm afraid I can't agree. The concept (plague instantaneously kills all Y-chromosome mammals -- except a guy named Yorick and his pet capuchin monkey -- around the globe without warning) has tremendous promise. However, the execution in the two books I read (this one and Vol. 13) was pedestrian. Characterization, plot, and art were all two-dimensional. (By contrast, Judge Parker has more nu...more

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Jun 03, 2007 Keely rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: science-fiction, comics, reviewed, post-apocalyptic

A sort of reversal of the film 'Children of Men', Y the Last Man is sometimes difficult to take seriously. The storytelling itself is not bad, though it sometimes falls into the faults of Lost, with endless, predictable hardship. It is an interesting concept, and Vaughan at least connects himself tangentially to the literary tradition, but these connections are often too flimsy or too coincidental in construction.

The worst crime of all may be that one keeps feeling that Yorick is standing in as...more

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Oct 11, 2011 Brandon rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, comix, fiction, post-apocalyptic

All the men are dead.

Yorick Brown remains after a mysterious virus eliminates every last thing with a Y chromosome. While he’s expected to do his part in figuring out why he survived, he’s mainly concerned with finding his would-be fiancé in the outback of Australia.

This would be my first experience in reading a graphic novel where the main character isn’t flying/swinging/driving around in spandex. For my first foray into the non-superhero genre, I probably couldn’t have chosen a better series....more

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Oct 12, 2012 Jenn(ifer) rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novel-memoir, read-in-2012, own

So far so good! Volume 1 definitely piqued my interest enough to make me want to read Volume 2. And besides, the last man is HOT! What? I can't objectify the last man?

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Some notes (these are mostly for me to be mindful of as I read the remaining volumes):

Yorick- Yorick's father was a Shakespeare buff and named Yorick and his sister after characters from Shakespeare's plays. The name Yorick comes from Hamlet; Yorick is the deceased court jester. He is represented in the play by a s...more

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May 30, 2011 Jim rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: high school geeks

Shelves: comics

This book is wayyy overrated. What if every man in the world save one suddenly died? The results may surprise you...if you've never read or seen this kind of thing before. If you have, it's more of the same -- a by-the-numbers, competent execution of a goofy premise. It's a good "entry-level" comic, but it's one that you'll be embarassed by a few years from now.

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Aug 16, 2008 Jackie "the Librarian" rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: sciencefiction, graphicnovels, misery-oh-misery

An interesting variation on a familiar theme - a sudden plague kills MOST of the people on the planet. This time, it's all the males on the planet, leaving only women. Except for this one slacker kid named Yorick - and his pet monkey. Gotta have the annoying pet monkey, like Marcel on "Friends", or the whole premise falls apart.

As Yorick is no Einstein, just a regular guy, all he can think about is reuniting with his girlfriend. Who cares about why he is the sole survivor, right? Of course, his...more

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Jun 30, 2008 Jamie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Now that I've finished the series (well, the first 9 books -- the 10th is unavailable to me), I'll write a bit about how I feel about the series as a whole.

I really wanted to hate this series. It is incredibly sexist in so many ways, and I started taking notes on some of the more ridiculous aspects of it so I would remember by the time I got around to writing this. My husband would find random pieces of paper scattered around the house and ask me what "factories stop working, no electricity, int...more

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Dec 28, 2008 Erin rated it 3 of 5 stars

so - while i realize that the premise of this book is supposed to be stunning in overturning the stereotypical assumption that women without men will create a feminist/lesbian utopia, a la Herland, by proposing that left to their own devices, women would act like a bunch of goomba guys, arm themselves and create civil war, strife, and general mayhem, can any of us really image a scenario in which large groups of women, left without men for extended periods of time, would NOT 1) hug a lot 2) lick...more

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Jan 17, 2012 Stella ☢FAYZ☢ Chen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favourites, graphic-novels

To my fellow GONE fans, read this.

This is a better start then The Walking Dead. I've tried to read TWD but it never really caught my attention. I don't know if you know this about me but I am not very patient. It's either Get Exciting Now or Back to the Library for you.

This book was interesting and intricate. The multi-character perspective never got confusing and worked very well to add suspense into the plot. I will definitely pick up the next volume from the library.

Into the favourites shelf...more

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Jul 30, 2008 Seth Hahne rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anyone with sense

Shelves: comics

[[note: this review covers the entire series of ten volumes]]

Imagine a world in which every creature possessing a Y chromosome has just died. In a single moment, the world's animal population has been reduced by roughly half. This is a world where most of the world's politicians, most of the world's scientists, most of the world's military, most of the world's pilots, most of the world's film-makers, and most of the world's businessmen are no longer with us. This is a world of chaos and desperat...more [[note: this review covers the entire series of ten volumes]]

Imagine a world in which every creature possessing a Y chromosome has just died. In a single moment, the world's animal population has been reduced by roughly half. This is a world where most of the world's politicians, most of the world's scientists, most of the world's military, most of the world's pilots, most of the world's film-makers, and most of the world's businessmen are no longer with us. This is a world of chaos and desperation, a world trying to find its way in the cataclysm-wrought darkness.

And this is a world of nightmares and madness for Yorick Brown, the lone surviving man.

Y: The Last Man begins on July 17, 2002—about a half hour prior to the great extinction, and introduces Yorick, his pet monkey Ampersand (also male and also a unique survivor of the coming pandemic), and the beginning of a large cast of well-conceived female characters (for the curious, publisher Vertigo offers the first chapter in PDF). The second chapter picks up several weeks after the plague hit, revealing a world very much changed. Apart from those women who are simply scrambling to survive in and make sense of this new world, the new society-in-flux has given rise to numerous factions struggling with and abusing power. From the ultra-feminist Amazons who burned all the sperm banks to assure that the world would never again be plagued with men to those women who were involved in politics and the military prior to the fall of man, author Brian K. Vaughan presents a world that believably captures both the horror and hope of the human condition.

And all the while Yorick is racing from Boston to find his would-be fiancée Beth, who was participating in anthropological research in Australia when the plague hit.

It's a very slow race. The entire scope of the ten-volume series covers approximately five years and follows Yorick as he and his two companions Agent 355 (an American spy) and Dr. Allison Mann* (a bioengineer who hopes to clone Yorick to preserve the human race) as they traverse the globe (via foot, train, and boat) in search of Yorick's Beth. Because of their travels they experience enlightening episodes with Amazons, astronauts, agents, assassins, actors, antagonistas, androbots, atheists, angry Arizonans, and a whole mess of lesbians (both long-time and newly blossomed).

As far as speculative fiction goes, Y: The Last Man is really the creme de la creme, hitting all the right notes and being funny, grim, and mind-blowing for its duration. Vaughan has lessons to leave and pedagogy to forge, but he never gets preachy—and the moment he begins wading in that direction, his characters themselves seem to call him on the carpet for it. These are intelligent people and pretty well representative of the human race. While the book most overtly concerns Yorick and his quest, this is merely a framing device for an exploration of humanity itself (and to a lesser degree, women). Vaughan succeeds wholly in taking a genre concept that could have been been the basis for the typical male fulfillment fantasy and spinning into one of the most worthwhile fables of the last hundred years.

Y: The Last Man gets my highest recommendation.

Hm. As an epilogue, I suppose I should speak briefly about the art. Largely visually composed by Pia Guerra, the illustrations of the book sing in their subtly. This is not a book featuring dynamic duos or caped crusaders. It's about real people. And Guerra's line captures that about as well as any artist out there. So goo is her skill that I cannot imagine any other artist succeeding so well at capturing Vaughan's story, characters, and setting. Her talent is made more so obvious by the occasional instances of filler artists.

*note: Allison Mann is A. Mann, get it?
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May 23, 2008 George rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels

This graphic novel is about a plague that kills every man on Earth, minus one. Yorick has just graduated from college, and he’s wondering what to do with his life now that he’s all big and growed up. Before the plague hits, he’s in the process of digesting the fact that his English degree qualifies him to work at a bookstore (I majored in English, and speak from bitter experience). Yorick is proposing to his girlfriend over the phone when every man on Earth dies. Here are the possible causes of...more

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Apr 04, 2007 Ryan rated it 3 of 5 stars

This series would be great if every character didn't have precisely the same voice (which basically relies on the overuse of "fucking" (n.b.: yeah, I'd say "fucking" a lot too if I were dealing with death and chaos on that scale, but I felt like everyone kept saying it with the same frequency)), and if in every new community he visited Yorick didn't find the perfect girl for him who then dies, and if it did anything with stereotypes of women other than throw them out there for Yorick to be surpr...more

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Dec 26, 2011 Brad rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: The Fool on the Hill

Shelves: apocalypse, comic-books, curiousity-killed-the-bananas, graphic-novel, hopes-dashed-like-an-egg-on-cement, shite

So there's this thing that happens in post-apocalypse stories that I need to talk to you about.

You know how in a zombiepocalypse story we occassionally receive hints that it might be better for the women to stay safe so they can make babies? Usually it's only hints, and the male characters don't seem to want to offend the post-feminist sensibilities of the women, so instead the women tote guns and put their wombs at risk of becoming a zombie-buffet. But everyone gets along-ish, and there are us...more So there's this thing that happens in post-apocalypse stories that I need to talk to you about.

You know how in a zombiepocalypse story we occassionally receive hints that it might be better for the women to stay safe so they can make babies? Usually it's only hints, and the male characters don't seem to want to offend the post-feminist sensibilities of the women, so instead the women tote guns and put their wombs at risk of becoming a zombie-buffet. But everyone gets along-ish, and there are usually plenty of women and men, so it doesn't seem like fertility is the most important concern.

Or you get the big, bad group of fascist men trying to turn some poor girl into a "breeder" for the new human race, but she tends to rise up, spank their patriarchal asses, escape with her girl power intact, and hook up with some nice guy with whom she's fought for survival.

And in the bleakest of apocalypses there's no hope anyway, so who gives a shit about procreation? Everyone's dead or dying, cannibalism is running rampant, society has failed, and humans are doomed to extinction. The best the survivors can do is keep hiking down some road to whatever is further down the road with the world as nothing but the road.

But I've totally fucking had it now that I've read Y: The Last Man. This book really pisses me off to no end.

I'm fine with the Amazonian self-mutilators (I can buy an angry, post-apocalyptic group of violent women). I am willing to suspend my disbelief that Yorick and his monkey make it through the manpocalypse as the only surviving Y chromosomes. I'll yawn and tolerate the Yankee setting of yet another apocalypse. I'll cringe but cope with yet another bad ass, dreadlocked, African-American woman who's the most capable and violent person around. I'll even believe that spindly little Yorick can pass as a woman as long as he has his gas mask on.

But what I won't believe, what I won't buy, where I won't suspend by disbelief, where I am not fine is with the idea that Yorick would ever, EVER, be allowed to wander around the winter of homo sapienism with one body guard, risking his testicles for some stupid, pointless, selfish, idiotic search for the love of his life and his sister. His sperm, and Ampersand's, would be the most important substances known to womankind (not because he is a man but because of sheer practicality). He would be protected whether he liked it or not. He would be imprisoned. His sperm would be used to impregnate. It would be used to find an immunity for future boys. It would be used for the survival of homo sapiens. Period.

I heard this book was really great -- a must read graphic novel. At best it is okay ... if you look past the idiocy of Yorick's wanderings, his insufferable smarminess, that stupid fucking monkey, and the poorest characterizations of women you're ever likely to see. Why two stars then? Because it isn't quite as bad as the Luna Brothers' Girls -- though it is damn close.(less)

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Jul 17, 2012 Brooke rated it 4 of 5 stars

Not sure I can give this a proper review from just the first volume, but I did have the thought that the Amazons were a roaming pack of radical feminists, which was a little frightening to this liberal feminist. :)

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Jan 04, 2009 Izlinda rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels-comics, science-fiction

A lot of my friends recommended this series to me. I finally gave in and read this issue while in Barnes & Noble today.

The premise, I think, is well-known to anybody who'd be reading my review. Something kills all males of all mammals (I'm unsure about other types of animals) except for Yorick and his male monkey Ampersand.
The story is rather intriguing. Of course we're all interested in knowing what caused the Y-carriers to drop dead. The structure of the graphic novel caught my attention,...more

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Aug 16, 2012 Gabriel McCann is currently reading it

Nathan Sentance kindly lent me all 10volumes of this. A good story but the artwork is a bit ordinary for my tastes. Still all in all quite good take on gender politics. If you were the last man left alive in a world full of only women how would you react. Lots of running away from gangs of people trying to kill you. Guilt over not staying faithful to your girlfriend who is on the other side of the world when the plague hits.
For me it all happened a bit too quickly and the final explanation of wh...more

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Sep 17, 2012 Irena rated it 2 of 5 stars

The story started out so well: fast-paced, intriguing..I can see it's a dude comic, the main character ends up being the last man left on a planet full of allll kinds of women! No matter what kind of an ugly twat you might wanna be, some woman will want you. Yessss!
I see half-naked blonde, beachy-style woman, some ex-models running around, army women, special op women, scientist women. That's ookayyy with me. It is a dude comic, after all, no?

Then came this:
Yorick (main char): I'm not afraid of...more

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Sep 13, 2010 Federiken Masters rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Principalmente a Bucletina y Manola, pero ya lo leyeron.

Recommended to Federiken by: Ferbueno y Mati.

Esta relectura me pareció igual de placentera que la primera, pero mucho más rica. El hecho de saber de antemano por qué pasa lo que pasa -o algo así- y qué sucede entre los saltos cronológicos aparentemente caprichosos que se van dando a lo largo de la historia (que a su vez transcurre prácticamente en tiempo real) ayuda a recomponer el todo de una manera más prolija y analizable. Es como armar un rompecabezas gigante con piezas enormes, de distintos colores y texturas y, una vez que está compl...more

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Jul 14, 2012 A.K. rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics, dystopian, slipstream-n-spec

[I sometimes have this dream that there is a specific circle of hell for those who in discussions of personal/political matters will passionately inquire just what do you women think you would do if all us men died, and wouldn't you just die without the good deep dicking, and then probably something about auto mechanics or math. In this dream, er, night terror, the same circle of hell is also reserved for those who have decided that if women ruled the world, things would be sooo different, and w...more

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Nov 07, 2007 Eric Althoff rated it 4 of 5 stars

How many times over the years have I endured the following statement?

(in whiny voice)

"Well, when women rule the world..."

"Y: The Last Man" poses such a scenario. A doctor impregnates herself with the clone of her own nephew who, when born, triggers a mysterious and instantaneous planetwide "gendercide" in which all mammals with a Y chromosome suddenly and disturbingly drop dead accompanied by some horrendous hemorhaging from all open body cavities. All men, dead...except for young Yorick and his...more

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Feb 05, 2008 Lindy Loo rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels-comic-books

I'm not quite sure what to make of this graphic novel series. It's an interesting concept--all of the men on earth have, in a few swift seconds, been destroyed, except for one--and it was a quick read. But I can't quite pin down whether it's really quite so feminist as it seems to THINK it is, or whether it's smart enough to see that it sort of HAS to be in some ways (since there's only female characters in it, but for one) and so the feminism is just inadvertent. The fact that a) most of the fe...more

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Mar 03, 2008 Damon rated it 4 of 5 stars

Not being a comic book, pardon graphic novel, person I thought I would give this a shot as an article I was reading listed the ten must-read graphic novels. I found this to be engaging and a fun hour or so escape from my tredging through the Che Guevara biography (only 250 pages to go). Looking into the question of what the world would be like with no men is interesting and something I haven't come across in picture-free reading, so that part is definitely intriguing. I think I will pick up the...more

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Mar 24, 2013 Saeba rated it 4 of 5 stars

Remendando por um colega de fórum, chamado 'Thanos',devo aqui também agradece-lo.Obrigado cara.
Nossa,que HQ...
Muito bom ,tema muito interessante,cada balão que lia me deixava mais curioso.Por que o autor começar com um cara chamado Yorick (um nome bem anormal mesmo) no telefone com sua namorada ,ou quase "noiva"?
Y seria de Yorick? ou seria o cromossomo. 'Last man' daria uma noção de que ele seria o ultimo.
E como seria o mundo sem os homens,serio,nunca tinha parado para pensar isso. Lésbicas send...more

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Mar 11, 2013 Helmut Barro rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics

Sogar wenns der letzte Comic der Welt wäre...

...würde ich nicht wissen, ob das Lob für diesen Comic wirklich gerechtfertig ist. Ich fand ihn ziemlich unglaubwürdig. Dabei geht es mir nicht einmal um die Prämisse der Geschichte, dass auf einen Schlag alle Männer aussterben - das schlucke ich im Sinne des "suspense of disbelief". Die Ausführung allerdings ist meines Erachtens nach schwach. "Walking Dead" hat eine ähnliche Voraussetzung, und dort glaubt man alles: Die Charaktere sind glaubwürdig,...more

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Mar 09, 2013 Dawn rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: book-club-selection

I read this along with The Complete Maus for my book club. I've not really read much in the way of graphic novels before, but this was really interesting. Y: The Last Man tells the apocalyptic story of some mysterious occurrence that causes all of the men to die simultaneously. Except for one man and his monkey (no, that's not a euphemism, it's a real monkey). Yorick, for as yet undisclosed reasons, is the last man on earth. He lives for a while in hiding, wearing a gas mask and cloak if he has...more

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Jan 27, 2013 Julia Shumway rated it 4 of 5 stars

I wanted to review the series but can only find a way to review each book individually, which I don't have the patience to do!!!! So this shall now serve as my review for the entire series. So let it be written, so let it be done.

I couldn't stop reading this series. I had the hard copy for the first two, but then I wanted to keep going and it was Christmas, so I couldn't get to a library. So, I just kept buying Kindle copies. Just buying and buying and tearing through them. I was fascinated. The...more

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Jan 17, 2013 Melki rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novel, science-fiction, up-at-the-crack-of-doom

If you are a woman,
You might have to sleep with me
Since I'm the Last Man on Earth
And there ain't nothing wrong with me
Loudon Wainwright III

Meet Yorick, an unemployed English major with moderate-to-poor computer skills. He lives on ramen noodles. And, oh yeah, his hobby is magic.

You probably wouldn't sleep with him if he was the...well, nevermind.

There he is, ladies - The Last Man on Earth.

The dating pool has just gotten a little smaller thanks to a mysterious plague that has wiped out all males,...more

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About Brian K. Vaughan

Born in Cleveland in 1976, Brian K. Vaughan is the Eisner, Harvey, and Shuster Award-winning writer and co-creator of the critically acclaimed comics series Y: The Last Man, Runaways, and Ex Machina (picked as one of the ten best works of fiction of 2005 by Entertainment Weekly).

Recently named "Writer of the Year" by Wizard Magazine, and one of the “top ten comic writers of all time” by Comic Boo...more Born in Cleveland in 1976, Brian K. Vaughan is the Eisner, Harvey, and Shuster Award-winning writer and co-creator of the critically acclaimed comics series Y: The Last Man, Runaways, and Ex Machina (picked as one of the ten best works of fiction of 2005 by Entertainment Weekly).

Recently named "Writer of the Year" by Wizard Magazine, and one of the “top ten comic writers of all time” by Comic Book Resources, Vaughan’s work has been featured and/or reviewed in countless mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, MTV, National Public Radio, and feminist magazine Bust, which photographed him for their “Men We Love” issue (don’t ask).

As an undergraduate film student at New York University, Vaughan got his big break as part of Marvel’s Stanhattan Project, a workshop for aspiring comic book writers. In the ten years since, he has written nearly all of the major DC and Marvel characters, everyone from Batman to the X-Men.

In September of 2006, Vertigo released Vaughan’s first original graphic novel, Pride of Baghdad, lavishly illustrated by artist Niko Henrichon. Inspired by an unbelievable true story of four lions who escaped the Baghdad Zoo during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Pride is equal parts anthropomorphic adventure and Animal Farm-like parable about the ongoing conflict in Iraq, and was described as "the best novel so far" about the war by the UK's Telegraph.

Along with his creator-owned work, Vaughan is currently writing The Escapists, a Dark Horse miniseries inspired by Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, as well as a new Doctor Strange limited series for Marvel with artist Marcos Martin.

This summer, the new WGA member/CAA client transplanted his poor playwright wife to Los Angeles, where Vaughan is currently working on the screenplay adaptations of Y and Ex Machina for New Line Cinema, as well as other new creations in film and television.

His home on the web is www.bkv.tv, and he’s become the last aging hipster to get a MySpace page: www.myspace.com/briankvaughan

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