Sergio Aragones
Sergio Aragones
Sergio Aragonés Domenech is a Spanish/Mexican cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad magazine and creator of the comic book Groo the Wanderer...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth6 September 1937
CountrySpain
stories
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.
drawing stories daydreaming
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.
stories mediums
Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.
suspense-novels important stories
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
book stories series
I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.
long stories western
The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.
book stories pages
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.
against gets innocent movies scary wrong
I have always been very much against the scary movies where the innocent person just gets slashed because he's in the wrong place.
variations
Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.
pages select send
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I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.
humorous gdp want
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.
grief sadness train-of-thought
When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.
silly writing thinking
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.