[Groop] GROO NEWS from me

Mark Evanier evanier at gmail.com
Sun Jan 29 13:28:24 PST 2006


Sergio and I will be doing a panel at WonderCon on Saturday afternoon at 
3:30.  It's called LOUDER THAN WORDS.  The idea is that I'll be 
interviewing him and throwing QUICK DRAW style challenges at him, and 
he'll be answering my questions and challenges by drawing.  He'll be 
talking, too.  It'll be an interesting experiment.

The reason we aren't doing QUICK DRAW there is that we've decided it 
doesn't work with pads of paper, which is how we've usually done it at 
Wondercon.  It has to be with the projectors and this year, because of 
tech problems, Wondercon can only set up one in the room.  So we'll just 
have Sergio on the one projector.  We don't QUICK DRAW anywhere they 
don't have multiple projectors so that the audience can see the artists 
drawing.

The Thursday evening before WonderCon, we're doing QUICK DRAW at that 
event in Santa Cruz I mentioned before.  The players will be Sergio, 
Scott Shaw!, Bill Morrison and Batton Lash.  We'll have two projectors 
there so we'll have Bill compete with Batton I think, then switch and 
have Sergio and Scott compete.  Or something like that.

In other news...

Sergio and I have not started work on GROO MEETS CONAN (or whatever it's 
going to be called).  Actually, we have a story but no art has been 
commenced.  Sergio will be teamed with another artist -- a real CONAN 
illustrator who'll draw some pages -- and we're waiting for the guy we 
want to be become available.  So this book is still a long ways off.

The movie script is coming along fine.  No other news there.

We have decided to discontinue our little service where we'll sign 
comics or anything anyone mails to me with a stamped, self-addressed 
envelope.  It has led to too many problems with things getting allegedly 
lost in the mail and people getting mad at us.  From now on, we only 
sign at conventions.

Sergio has been announced as a guest at the Motor City Comic Convention 
in Detroit in May but I'm not 100% sure he's going.  I don't have any 
conventions planned before San Diego.

That is all for now.


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