Sergio Aragones famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Sergio Aragones

#Losing Friends #Being Sad #Family And Friends
My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.
-- Sergio Aragones

#Source #Collections
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

#Sharks #Scare #Catching
I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.
-- Sergio Aragones

#Ideas #Hours
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

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

#Home #Towns #Small Town
Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.
-- Sergio Aragones

#Character #Creativity #Expression
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

#Character #Drawing #Design
The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.
-- Sergio Aragones

#Behavior #Boogeyman #Results
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.
-- Sergio Aragones

#Book #Stories #Pages
The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.
-- Sergio Aragones

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

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

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

#Thinking #Scary #Brain
Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs
-- Sergio Aragones

#Effort #Individual #Grants
If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement.
-- Sergio Aragones

#Cat #Halos #Tails
At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.
-- Sergio Aragones

#Trying #End Of The World #World
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

#Drawing #Looks #Way
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

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

#Important #Stories #Suspense
When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.
-- Sergio Aragones

#Grief #Sadness #Separation
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

#Humorous #Gdp #Want
Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.
-- Sergio Aragones

#Stories #Mediums
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.
-- Sergio Aragones

#Drawing #Stories #Daydreaming

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