Groo the Wanderer

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GROO THE WANDERER was created by my best amigo, Sergio Aragonés. It's the story of a barbarian who is as dangerous as a stampede of cattle...and almost as smart. Along with his intrepid, oddly-loyal hound Rufferto, he roams another time and place, leaving destruction in his wake. We pass this all off as a humor comic and have not only succeeded in fooling readers for many years but have actually won a few awards, at least one of which I've mislaid. Someplace down below, you'll find a link to an article I wrote on the founding and history of the comic...and does anyone else think it's odd to be using the Internet to talk about a character who took over a hundred issues to even learn how to read?

Anyway, if you don't want to bother clicking that low, I'll tell you that Groo was first published in 1981, that we have done well more than 150 issues, and that his first four comic book publishers were Pacific Comics, Eclipse Comics, Marvel/Epic Comics and Image Comics. Of those, three have declared bankruptcy (though Marvel has somehow managed to linger on) and the fourth has internal legal problems. Groo is presently published by the obviously courageous Dark Horse Comics (whose website you can reach by clicking on that name).

How it works now is that every so often, we do a four-issue mini-series of his exploits and, when we're not doing one of those, we do something else for Dark Horse. After they publish a mini-series, they put out a paperback collecting all the issues, and they also issue paperbacks that reprint earlier Groo tales. Some folks find them worth buying. Then again, some people pierce their nipples.

Okay, here's that link I promised you to the column I wrote on...

THE HISTORY OF GROO

I keep finding Groo Stuff lying around this place. Whenever I do, I stick it on a Groo Stuff page here. Here are pages of Groo Stuff...

GROO STUFF

If you've been trying to fill in a collection of Groo Trading Cards, you'll probably want to check into...

THE GREAT GROO TRADING CARD EXCHANGE

There's a Groo Mailing List — a bunch of devout readers who keep in touch via mass e-mail, discussing the comic and getting the latest Groo News (I'm a participant). You can join "The Groop" by clicking on...