[Groop]Groo Coup!!

[Gary Grossmann]

Mark Brown wrote:
>
> Now I have to ask... Now that you have your holy grail - what's left ??
>
> What is the one Groo thing that you haven't got that you NEED more than
> anything else ?
>

Ah, well, of course there is the Sketch Card. But the thing(s) that are
highest on my list, higher than the accursed Sketch card, are the Groo
Buttons that Sergio & Christine made and sold at the San Diego Comic Con in
1988 or so. There were 6 different ones. Again, these are things that hardly
anyone's knows about and even fewer care about. It was just something that
Sergio and his then 14 year old daughter did together. I have found a few
comic book shop owners in the LA & San Diego area who remember them (most
think I am talking about the Cloisonné Pins), but they haven't seen any in
years and a few folks who are good friends with Sergio & Christine like Stan
Sakai and Scott Shaw say they probably have a few somewhere, but they would
never sell or trade them (Who can blame them?) And Christine told me she
doesn't have any either. And I have periodically put a want ad in the CBG
for extended periods of time without so much as a nibble.

So unless someone happens to put one ebay after cleaning out a draw or
something, I’m not very hopeful of finding any.

It would also be cool to get the 4 Turkish Groos I don’t have.  Then there’s
getting a video of the Groo appearance in the mid-eighties in one of the
bumper cartoons Sergio did for Dick Clark’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes TV
show (Mark mentioned it in a Groo Grams).  And actual copies of the 132
Sunday Megazines from Malaysia of which my good buddy Azamin was able to get
me 111 photocopies (along with 86 actual copies). (Groo stories were
published a page or two each week for about 4 years.)  Let’s, see what else?
Oh yeah, Sergio did a daily one panel cartoon for a Spanish language
newspaper that has been out of business for 10 years and I am certain there
are a few Groos in the drawings somewhere.  There were also some Buzz & Bell
cartoons (Groo is hiding in them occasionally) that were published only in a
French humor magazine.

You know, mainstream stuff like that.

Perhaps the oddest thing is that of the stuff listed above I probably have
the best chance of finding one or two of the Turkish Groos!!  And just to
show you how completely and totally certifiable I am, I would sit through
every last one of those Blooper shows just to find the one that has a two
second appearance of Groo.  (So Dick, if you're a lurking Groopie, give me a
call)

Well, I've babbled on long enough.  take care all -Gary G.