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.
Sergio Aragones

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

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

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.
Sergio Aragones

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

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

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.
Sergio Aragones

I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.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

I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.
Sergio Aragones

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


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

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

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

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

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

My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before.
Sergio Aragones

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

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.
Sergio Aragones

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

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