[Groop] Calgary Con Report(& card prices)

[Mark Evanier]

Conor Geoghegan wrote:

> So anyways, throughout the day, I left my booth a number of times to 
> check Sergio's and Mark's tables to see if either of them was free. 
> Unfortunately, I don't recall actually seeing Mark at his table (or 
> maybe he was there, but he was just hidden somewhere behind the throngs 
> of fans). Y

ME: I was there most of Saturday except when I was off doing panels.

> One fan asked who Sergio and Mark would like to use as voice actors
> for the Groo cartoon. Sergio said that they would never let him pick
> the voice actors himself because in his mind, Groo speaks Spanish.
> Mark mentioned that he had a potential voice actor in mind for
> Arcadio, and - if I remember correctly - he said it was the same guy
> who used to voice the leprechaun in the Lucky Charms commercials?
> Haha, I might be remembering that wrong, but I think that's what he
> said.

ME: You're remembering wrong.  When I write Arcadio dialogue, I imagine 
him speaking with a voice performed by an actor I work with often named 
Gregg Berger.  Gregg has many voices but the one I'm thinking of is not 
unlike an impression he does of Kelsey Grammer.  Sergio doesn't like 
Kelsey Grammer so he winces when I say that.

If I could cast anyone as the Minstrel, it would be a friend of mine 
named Jason Graae.  Jason is a Broadway actor and he also does 
occasional cartoon voices like the Lucky Charms leprechaun.  You can 
find a lot of examples of Jason singing if you Google him.

> For the first 10 minutes or so, Mark was the only person on stage (I 
> later heard from a friend who was volunteering at the con that none of 
> the panelists in the Writing For Comics Panel had actually been informed 
> they were ON the panel; and that the only reason Mark knew he was on the 
> panel is because he had actually been responsible and investigated it 
> himself).

ME: No one told me which panels they had me on so I found out over there 
  but I found out by reading the con's website.

It was actually a very well-run con...a little understaffed but 
well-run.  As I said on my site, most folks there seemed to have a very 
good time.  I just wish I'd been one of them.