[Groop] Old Groo Review

[Chris Schechner]

>Hi Folks!
>
>Well, it's just too darn quiet on the Groo Line lately.  So here's something
>to rile you all up.  (or not)
>
>The weekend before last we was down in Portland visiting my son and we went
>to Powell's Bookstore, which pretty much has to be the largest bookstore on
>the west coast.  For fun I cruised by the section the have for comic related
>books and saw a couple of Comic Encyclopedia books.
>
>One was edited by some guy named Maurice Horn.  So I look up Sergio and
>there is a nice article about him that has a familiar ring to it and sure
>enough it was written by Mark.  But then there is this little paragraph
>afterwards by this Maurice Horn guy.
>
>In it he says that Groo is his most famous comic book and that it has
>developed a "vociferous coterie" of fans and despite it's "sophomoric" humor
>and "ham-handed writing,"  Sergio's art keeps the book afloat and transcends
>these drawbacks.
>
>What a snot!!
>
>-Gary "Vociferous Coterie" Grossmann

I thought Mark was Jewish. How could he create "ham-handed writing"?