Quotes from Sergio Aragones

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

I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.

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

I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.

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

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

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

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

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

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.

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

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

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

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

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

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.

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

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

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

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

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

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

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