Brian K. Vaughan

Brian K. Vaughan (born 1976 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comic book and television writer, who has become known for his work for publishers Marvel Comics and DC Comics, as well as the television series Lost and Under the Dome.

While a film student at New York University, he established a workshop contacts comic book industry and was able to publish his first stories at Marvel. In the following years he wrote for some of the most famous series of publishers Marvel and DC as X -Men, Spider -Man, Batman and Green Lantern. From 2002 Vaughn focused on completed stories with their own characters such as Ex Machina, Y - The Last Man and the graphic novel The Lion of Baghdad, which appeared on the DC imprints Vertigo and Wildstorm. For this work he received in subsequent years several times the prestigious Eisner Award.

2006 Vaughn moved to Los Angeles to be planned - but not realized so far - to dedicate The Last Man for New Line Cinema - Film adaptations of his comic works Ex Machina and Y. As the writer and producer Damon Lindelof was impressed by his publications, Vaughn offered the chance to cooperate in the hit television series Lost. In the years 2007 to 2009 he acted from the third to the fifth season as co- writer and co-producer.

2011 selected from Steven Spielberg Brian K. Vaughan, the novel to adapt the arena by Stephen King as a television series. In the from September 2013 under the original title Under the Dome broadcast in German-speaking series Vaughn has worked as a writer, showrunner and executive producer. In 2012, he turned again to the comics. He created for the Independent Publishing Image Comics along with the Canadian illustrator Fiona Staples the science fiction series saga, for which he again received awards such as the Eisner Award and the Hugo Award Best Graphic Story for a story in drawn form.