Is it true that Sergio Aragons draws incredibly fast?
(Comic Culture Vol 2 #2, Dec 1994) He really does, and it’s not just the drawing that I’m amazed at. It’s the concepts. What he draws is not just a drawing of Groo standing there, it’s a gag in that thirty seconds that he took to draw that picture he would do, he not only had to draw it physically but also to think of a great concept, a gag. Of course this is just for spontaneous sketches, when he works on Groo, he takes a lot longer. We’ve gotten letters where kids will say, “Gee Sergio, you must do an issue of Groo in two days, what do you do with the rest of the month?” (Laughter) But Sergio does a lot of research. There are a few stories in which Groo would sail on ships, and each time Groo would sail on it the ship would sink, that was another ongoing gag. Sergio would research different ships or different periods or different countries and he would get to the point where everything he would draw would be accurate. So if you look at a ship in the Groo stories, you could actually b