Art & Creativity Quote by Sergio Aragones

Aragones is doing something deceptively modest here: he’s tracing a straight line from personal appetite to professional identity, and in the process smuggling in a thesis about why comics work. “I have always loved horror very much” isn’t a brand statement; it’s a creative origin story. He frames horror not as a phase or a market niche, but as a durable taste that predates the job. That matters because it recasts his later success as craft married to genuine obsession, not careerist calculation.

The name-drop of DC’s House of Mystery carries a lot of cultural freight in a few words. For comics readers, it evokes an era when horror anthologies were a proving ground: short forms, twist endings, mood-first storytelling, and a tight economy of panel-to-panel suspense. By calling it “one of my first jobs,” Aragones signals apprenticeship. Horror becomes a training gym where timing is sharpened - the same timing he’s famous for in humor. The subtext is that horror and comedy are adjacent genres: both rely on rhythm, misdirection, and the precise placement of a beat. A scare and a laugh often share the same skeleton.

And then the plainspoken repetition - “I loved it” after “I have always loved” - reads like someone refusing to intellectualize their joy. Coming from a cartoonist, that’s telling: it’s a defense of pleasure as a serious creative engine. In an industry that often treats early work as disposable or purely transactional, Aragones treats it as formative, even lucky. Horror wasn’t just content; it was permission to experiment inside a popular, pulpy container.