Sergio Aragones Quotes

In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated!

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it.

I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.

Some minds are like concrete - all mixed up and permanently set.

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.

With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues.

Try walking a mile in your enemy's shoes. You'll be a mile away and you'll have his shoes.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

Freedom is not an individual effort.
Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.

You can be on the right track and still get hit by a train!

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.