![]() Vaughan's career in comics dates back more than a decade, but his love for the medium stretches back to his adolescence. ![]() "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." "It's been weird because it's a gradual saying good-bye," he says. "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 is a finale that is equally emotional for both fans and its creator. The title, which has had a very successful five-year run, is coming to an end this week with the release of issue No. ![]() 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. Well, that's the story boiled down to its basics. "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. ![]()
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