Daily Inspiration Quote by Sergio Aragones

At the end of the '60s, “trying to enter the world of comics” reads like an understatement from someone who would go on to help redraw that world’s borders. Sergio Aragones frames his origin story not as destiny but as a scramble for access - a working artist circling a gate that was guarded by editors, distribution networks, and entrenched tastes. The phrasing is modest, even a little wry: not “breaking in,” not “conquering,” just trying to enter, as if the medium were a room you had to be invited into.

Context sharpens the line. Late-1960s comics were in upheaval: underground comix were detonating taboos, MAD magazine had already mainstreamed irreverence, and American pop culture was turning toward faster, weirder visual language. Aragones, a Spanish-Mexican cartoonist who made his name in the U.S., was also navigating the immigrant artist’s double audition: prove you belong to the art form and to the country that controls its biggest platforms. “World of comics” hints at an ecosystem, not a single job - a culture with its own rules, slang, and hierarchies.

The subtext is persistence disguised as casual recollection. By locating himself “at the end of the ’60s,” he taps a mythic creative moment without romanticizing it. It’s a professional memory, not a nostalgia trip: the moment before the signature style becomes inevitable, when the future legend is just another hungry cartoonist looking for a door that will open.