<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Reached by phone at his house in Ojai, California, Aragonés talked to <i>The A.V. Club </i>about making his way from his native Mexico to <i>Mad</i>’s Manhattan offices, learning mime skills with Alejandro Jodorowsky, and why he waited more than a decade to publish his first <i>Groo </i>story. And he explained all this without putting down his pen.</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/sergio-aragones,47745/">http://www.avclub.com/articles/sergio-aragones,47745/</a><br><br><div>
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