You can't throw a stone at Comic-Con without hitting someone who has fallen head over heels for the imaginative writing of Brian K. Vaughan.
Vaughan, born in 1976, was raised in Ohio and had a healthy appreciation for superheroes from a young age.
He took that passion and ran with it all the way to Marvel in 1995 where he worked on various projects such as the second volume of 'Tales From the Age of Apocalypse', a comic book crossover storyline published in the X-Men franchise.
Since then he has penned several well known titles such as Marvel's 'Runaways' and 'Y: The Last Man' by Vertigo, both have been adapted into TV shows by Hulu and FX respectively.
Speaking of television, Brian has written for many famous TV shows such as Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Under the Dome.
There is even a live action Gundam film in the works.
But for Brian K. Vaughan, comics will always hold a special place in his heart.
Brian first dipped his toes into the comic book industry after he graduated from his Catholic high school in 1994.
While attending New York University as a film student, Vaughan took part in Marvel Comics's 'Stan-hattan Project', a writing workshop designed by Marvel in 1995 for the purpose of training fresh writing talent.
Soon he was doing work for Marvel as well as other prestigious industry titans, from DC to Dark Horse.
He was soon writing for iconic brand names such as Batman, Wolverine, Spiderman and Wonder Woman, but he began to realize he preferred coming up with his own characters.
Brian K. Vaughan has never been afraid to take his readers on unusual adventures in mind-bendingly imaginative realms.
His writing is uncompromising and sometimes even controversial in nature.
In one such example, he co-created the award-winning space opera 'Saga' with artist Fiona Staples in 2012.
This insanely immersive sci-fi series first reached notoriety in 2014, when it's 12th issue was banned by Apple on the basis of depicting gay sex.
Apple went so far as to remove the issue from all of their comic book apps in the app store.
Despite the minor setback, Brian and Fiona stuck to their guns and went on to release over 50 issues before finally announcing an indefinite hiatus last year.
If you are bummed about the wait for new Saga, rest assured that Vaughan has plenty more stories to tell.
His latest work entitled 'Paper Girls' is a story of four streetwise 12-year-old paper delivery girls in 1988.
Brian K. Vaughan is still writing these days, but he also tries to spend more time with his family.
He married a Canadian woman and moved to Los Angeles where he now lives with his two children and a pet Dachshund named Hamburger.
In an interview with Fatherly, Vaughan mentioned that becoming a parent has been very influential to his work, allowing him to see a whole new perspective on marriage and fatherhood.
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