The book, he added, “is about me exploring those questions.” “ ‘Pride of Baghdad’ was born out of the fact that I had a lot of conflicted feelings about the war,” he said in a recent telephone interview from his home in West Hollywood. Vaughan’s most emotionally charged stories in a career filled with tales of science fiction, superheroes and the supernatural. The tale, lushly illustrated by Niko Henrichon, was inspired by actual events and stands out as one of Mr. Vaughan’s personal brand of therapy arrives in the shape of “Pride of Baghdad,” a graphic novel (his first) about lions that escape a zoo in Iraq during an American bombing raid. Vaughan suffers for their enjoyment? “I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it,” he said of his approach. DO comic book fans realize how much Brian K.
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