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All Quotes by author - Sergio Aragones
" 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. "
Story
Thinking
You
" At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics. "
Enter
World
Comics
" Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out. "
Lot
Comics
Get
" 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. "
Want
Detective
Stories
" For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need. "
Need
Pages
Every
" Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject. "
Produce
Subject
Same
" I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books. "
Books
Love
Stories
" 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. "
You
Shark
Enjoy
" If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it. "
Way
You
Drawing
" I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes. "
Day
Like
Reason
" 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. "
Horror
Writing
Mystery
" I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea. "
Weird
Going
Hours
" I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home. "
Small Town
Down
Home
" I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary. "
Brain
Way
True
" My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic. "
National
Collection
Best
" 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. "
Working
Work
Way
" Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action. "
Once
You
Where
" 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. "
Start
Design
Character
" Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. "
Building
Humor
Important
" The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman. "
Love
Behavior
Bad
" 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. "
Love
Reason
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. "
Born
Family
Sad
" The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story. "
Continuous
Story
Will
" When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought. "
Sadness
Work
Grief
" 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. "
Going
Story
More
" 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. "
Story
Book
Better
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