The same year he went to Madrid to oppose a public works project, fails to defeat it, and returns to Huesca to take drawing classes in the prive academy of the painter Anselmo Gascón de Gotor.

In January 1912 El Diaro de Huesca came under the direction of Luis López Allué and Acín was put in charge of the humor section where he used the pen name "Fray Acin".

At the same time Acín began to published political cartoons with other progressive newspapers: El Pueblo, Vida Socialista, and others.

In July 1913 Acín settled in Barcelona at the request of his friend Ángel Samblancat with whom he founded the weekly newspaper La Ira.

In the first issue of La Ira he published a vignette entitled Id Vosotros which fiercely criticized the war with Morocco.