Regarding the choice of Image Comics, Vaughan has stated that Image is one of the only comics publishers that can still offer what he considers 'a truly creator-owned contract.' He also credits publisher Eric Stephenson and Robert Kirkman for helping smooth the transition to the company. Struck by the originality of her art, Vaughan spoke with Staples and quickly realized this would be the dream ongoing series for the two to collaborate on. Features over 1,300 pages of gorgeously graphic full-color artwork, including a new cover from Eisner Award. Vaughan met co-creator Fiona Staples though Steve Niles, with whom she had worked on the miniseries Mystery Society. Collecting the first nine volumes of the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling series into one massive paperback, this compendium tells the entire story (so far) of a girl named Hazel and her star-crossed parents.

'.I guess I've been thinking about what it means to bring children into the world during a time of multiple ongoing wars, and noticing how a lot of our childhood entertainment maybe helps prepare us for a state of perpetual conflict, for good or bad.' Regarding parenthood as the inspiration for this story, Vaughan stated: While Vaughan has borrowed certain character names and ideas from his childhood imaginings, this story is very much intended for adults. He had never planned to actually tell a story set in this world, until the birth of his first child provided sudden inspiration for Saga. Vaughan has stated that the universe of Saga was inspired by a vast fantasy universe he first imagined when he was a child, explaining that it was a 'demented fantasyland' full of spaceships and dragons.

In August 2018, Vaughan announced the series would go on an indefinite hiatus - saying it would be for at least one year - and 'will look and feel entirely different when it returns.Saga is an epic science-fiction/fantasy drama about a family fighting to survive in a perpetual war.ĭevelopment For further information, see Publication Historyīrian K. In 2015, it won two Eisners for Best Continuing Series and Best Penciller/Inker, becoming only the second series (the first being Sandman) to win the Best Continuing Series award thrice (one could also count Swamp Thing, which won three Kirby awards for Best Continuing Series). In 2014, it again won three Eisner Awards for Best Writer, Best Continuing Series and Best Painter/Multimedia Artist.

In 2013, Saga won three Eisner Awards for Best Writer, Best New Series, and Best Continuing Series. I thought we might be cancelled by our third issue.' - Brian K. 'This is an original fantasy book with no superheroes, two non-white leads and an opening chapter featuring graphic robot sex. Vaughan and Fiona Staples described as Romeo and Juliet meets Star Wars meets Game of Thrones. Saga is an ongoing series and space opera from Brian K.

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