Love Quote by Sergio Aragones

There is something quietly radical in Aragones framing his ambition as a “whole series of stories” that end up “collected into books.” It’s not just a career goal; it’s a bid for durability from an artist whose medium is often treated as disposable. Cartooning, especially the kind Aragones helped define in magazines and quick-hit gags, lives in the margins of culture: a punchline, a panel, a fleeting visual rush. He’s telegraphing a desire to escape the single-issue churn and claim the kind of permanence literature is automatically granted.

The phrasing matters. “I’d love” is disarming, almost casual, but it carries a lifetime of craft underneath it. Aragones isn’t posturing; he’s talking like a working artist who understands production realities. A “series” implies rhythm and stamina, the weekly/monthly discipline of comics. “Collected into books” signals a second life: curation, sequencing, an audience that rereads instead of just consuming and moving on.

There’s also a status play here, and it’s not cynical. Collected editions are how comics argue for themselves in bookstores, libraries, classrooms, and on shelves where “real” culture is supposed to live. Aragones, long associated with the gag and the visual aside, hints at narrative ambition and at authorship in the fuller sense: not just jokes, but an oeuvre. The subtext is a creator asking to be remembered on purpose, not by accident of nostalgia.