Vaughan: Yeah, I think we just saw it as an opportunity. We just had so much faith in them and knowing what great storytellers they are, that they could take the story and really elevate it.īrian K. And they can do so much more and the story can hit so differently. They can do things on TV that we can't, even something as basic as sound is something we have no access to in a comic. Rogers (Halt and Catch Fire) executive producing/showrunning. SYFY WIRE recently got on a Zoom call with the trio to get the details about how Vaughan and Chiang helped Rogers translate their book to screen, how Paper Girls differentiates itself from other nostalgic '80s stories, and why it's important to get different comic books like this one to screen.īrian and Cliff, did either of you have any reservations about Paper Girls getting adapted into another medium and it possibly losing everything that made the book so unique?Ĭliff Chiang: It's important to trust people, and we had a lot of trust in Chris and the whole team to take the story and adapt that as they needed to because it's a different medium.
The series debuted on Prime Video on July 29, with Vaughan and Chiang serving as executive producers/consultants and Christopher C. It's crazy because you can count on a single hand how many live-action, sci-fi dramas with a diverse, teen girl cast exist. It went on to become a multiple Eisner Award-winning book with a successful 30-issue run.Īnd then Prime Video did the next craziest thing by ordering it to series adaptation, retaining the book's core sci-fi conceits and the young teen girl characters at its heart: Erin (Riley Lai Nelet), Mac (Sofia Rosinsky), KJ (Fina Strazza) and Tiffany (Camryn Jones). The scale and paradoxical conundrums were familiar to genre readers, but four teen girls leading the narrative? Practically groundbreaking. Vaughan and illustrated by Cliff Chiang featured a main cast of four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls who stumble into a time-traveling war that has them jumping through time. The Image Comics book written by Brian K.
In 2015, a unicorn of a comic book called Paper Girls hit shelves.
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