SERGIO ARAGONES FUNNIES
Sergio Aragones isn’t giving up Groo, but he’s got another comic book series, Sergio Aragones Funnies, the first issue of which is due out this month, just in time for a debut at the Sandy Eggo ComiCon. Interviewed by Bill Morrison in the current issue of the Previews catalog, Aragones said the new series will give him a place to put plots and stories that keep occurring to him but that he has no place for publishing. “I have tons and tons of stories, and this is the perfect vehicle for them,” he said. It’ll be a monthly comic, and in order to do it (and Mad and Groo), Aragones said he’d have to stop doing something—“my gardening and building models and sleeping,” he supposes.
His plan is to do “an extra page a day, which I can comfortably add” to his production schedule. “If I do a little every day,” he said, “—for instance, if the telephone rings, I pick up the page and start drawing little horses and people to fill up the page.”
Making a distinction between stories and single-panel jokes, Aragones said the stories in Funnies will be in color, but the jokes will be in black-and-white. “Maybe it’s because I’ve been doing it for so many years in black-and-white, and all the collections I have of cartoons from The New Yorker to Ha Ha Magazine to all the freelance magazines, they’re always in black and white,” he explained.
On the new project, Aragones said he’d miss working with long-time collaborator Mark Evanier, who scripts Groo—“because he’s such a clever writer and sometimes he saves the story with his clever humor—but in this case, the stories that I want to tell are the way that I see things. It will be more personal.”
The only recurring character, he said, will be himself. But there will be “historical stories, science fiction, westerns; a little of everything that doesn’t fit into a regular comic.”
We shall rejoice at the prospect of an irregular comic book.
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