[Groop]Cartoon show....

[Ugly Person]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Evanier" <mail at evanier.com>
To: <groop at groo.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Groop]Cartoon show....


>We've been approached a number of times about doing a GROO series.
>Some of the offers expected to wind up owning the character.  Others
>didn't but the company was demanding so much control that Sergio and I
>felt we didn't want to entrust our silly barbarian to that situation.
>So none of those deals have ever happened.

It's still hard to believe that the "real" Mark Evanier would be available
to echange email with. Neat! Now if only Sergio would join in......

Sadly I've learned that what you say is true from follwing Charles Schulz's
"Peanuts" comic strip.
Two glaring discrepancies:

1) In the comic strip, the little red-haired girl is never seen.
    In animation one is seen, although the jury is still out whether it's
the "real" little red-haired girl or not.

2) In the comic strip, adults are NEVER seen or heard. Even in the classic
cartoon specials from the 60's, adults are never seen, and the most you get
from adult dialogue is "mwa-mwa-mwaa".  Later cartoons, the occasional adult
IS seen and/or heard. At my first encounter with this, I thought the world
turned upside down. Really. I could hardly believe it. A usenet discussion
revealed just as you said - the animation powers-that-be at the time
superceded Schulzs' creative standards and apparently deemed adult
appearances to be necessary or at least acceptable.  I still feel uneasy
about that. Any changes to the established Groo format probably wouldn't go
well with me either.  Except that Groo's hair looked better with the brown
tinge to it in the post-Pacific issues.

So I vote (which usually doesn't count): no. Groo makes a great character as
he is. Animation is not necessary.