How does the process work when creating an issue of Groo?
(Comic Culture Vol 2 #2 Interview, Dec 1994 FIXME Broken link) Almost the entire creative team has been together since the Pacific days, that’s Sergio, Mark Evanier, Tom Luth and myself. We get along well. We’re all artists, everyone draws and is capable I think of doing each other’s job. We each have an ongoing respect for each other’s abilities, so it works out great. Most of all we’re just friends. (Comics Interview #44 Interviews, August 1987 FIXME Broken link) Okay, primarily it’s Sergio’s story. Sergio plots and draws it then gives it to Mark Evanier. Sergio acts out each issue of Groo in Mark’s kitchen. Mark has a pretty big kitchen. He might say Groo does this, Groo does that — I’ve seen Sergio do that in my house and he’s great! He’s running all over the place and he’s just fun to watch! Mark takes the pages from there and he erases all of Sergio’s dialogue…(laughter) the reason for this is that Sergio writes the way he talks, with a very thick accent. Then Mark writes down
