[Groop] My blog

[Ryan Simmons]

I've been drawing Groo since I was a kid.  Actually I was heavily influenced 
by Sergio's style and have drawn dozens of pictures of Groo.  I had a comic 
strip in my high school and college papers drawn with the "cartoony" style 
of cartoons instead of the "realistic" style of cartoons.(I know that some 
people prefer to call them "freestyle" and "literal" instead so I hope 
nobody is offended by that last statement.)

My mother was a very talented artist in realistic charcoal drawings of 
terrains, horses, and Native Americans that I have always been amazed by.  
However, she quit doing them because the strain of not making a mistake on 
one would affect her nerves.

I have never tried to sell any drawings because, truthfully, I can look at 
something and draw it very well.  Making it up in my head like Sergio, isn't 
something that I have been able to do with any satisfactory success.  I can 
imagine the images in my head, but to put them on paper...well I could never 
do it well.

I have given most of my drawings away, but my parents still have a few of 
Groo.  Actually I drew a picture of an alien lost in a desert just a couple 
weeks ago and gave it to my daughter.  I'll scan that later to show you that 
I'm not just making this all up. :P

Ryan

P.S.  Back in the late 80's I drew Groo on grid paper, and used that to 
write an image of Groo in Basic.  I had it on one of those huge floppies 
that you used before computers had harddrives.  Looked great on the Apple 
IIe!


>From: "John T" <Comics230 at cox.net>
>To: "groop-groo.com" <groop at groo.com>
>Subject: Re: [Groop] My blog
>Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:27:16 -0400
>
>My blogYou know looking at Chris's blog got me thinking. I've seen fan art 
>dedicated lots of different characters, but I don't remember ever seeing 
>any for Groo. There was that thing on eBay that somebody was trying to pass 
>off as Sergio art, but nothing by fans. I know Chris isn't the only 
>artistically inclined Groopie. I would love to see some our interpretations 
>of Groo. Mine would be a stick figure, but others out there must have done 
>something!
>
>John Torregrossa
>PO Box 28184
>Providence, RI 02908-0184
>eBay ID: Groo
>http://stores.ebay.com/ParaFanAlia-Toys-and-Stuff
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Chris Schechner
>   To: groop-groo.com
>   Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 7:39 PM
>   Subject: [Groop] My blog
>
>
>   Hey groopsters,
>
>   I finally got my blog up and running. It's going to be my cartoon 
>journal from the past ten years or so posted a panel or two at a time 
>(judiciously edited of course. I don't want to tell all of my deep, dark 
>secrets.) Feel free to check it out. It's at:
>
>   http://insightthroughhindsight.typepad.com/
>
>   Thank you for your business.
>
>   Chris (Glorko)
>
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