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Canonical name: Aragonés, Sergio
Legal name: Aragonés Domenech, Sergio
Birthdate: 1937-09-06
Gender: male
Nationality: Mexico
Spain
Birthplace: Sant Mateu, Castellón, Spain
Places of residence: Ojai, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
Occupations: Fastest illustrator in the West
charactor creator
Inker
Organizations: MAD Magazine
Mañana Magazine
Awards and honors: Harvey Award (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001)
Shazam Award (1972)
Reuben Award (1996)
National Cartoonist Society Comic Book Award (1986)
Adamson Award (1985)
Eisner Award (1992) (show all 12)
La Plumilla de Plata
Premio Salón Internacional del Cómic de Barcelona
National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Book Award (1973, 1974, 1976)
National Cartoonist Society Magazine and Book Illustration Award (1989)
National Cartoonist Society Special Features Award (1977)
National Cartoonist Society Gag Cartoon Award (1983)
Short biography: Mad Magazine illustrator, Groo the Wanderer creator....

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House of Secrets 2 (Showcase Presents) by Nelson E. Bridwell

Compared to Vol 1 all the interstitial stuff about the house itself has completely gone, with just very short abel introductions. Similar stuff, horror stories that always end with evil being punished because of CCA rules, some are spooky, a lot of silly ~twist endings~, sometimes the art is really cool. If you like kind of silly and not particularly scary but fun horror comics this is decent. Goosebumps type appeal

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tombomp | 2 other reviews | Oct 31, 2023 |

Showcase Presents: House of Secrets VOL 01 by Various

been wanting to read light stuff recently so this was fun. some good stories, some weird, some incoherent, but overall pretty fun to read through. nothing like. super clever but I often found myself impressed by the art (doubt it's impressive to anyone who actually knows comics though) scratched the same sort of itch as goosebumps or something.

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tombomp | 2 other reviews | Oct 31, 2023 |

Sergio Aragones' Groo: Library by Sergio Aragonés

Simply awesome. Or... groo-some? Yes, that too.

Found it for a few bucks used, but in great condition.

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cwebb | May 30, 2023 |

Groo The Wanderer Vol 2 No. 7: The Ivory Graveyard by Sergio Aragones

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Title: The Ivory Graveyard
Series: Groo the Wanderer #7
Author: Sergio Aragones
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Comics
Pages: 24
Words: 2K

Synopsis:

This has two stories, one about Groo and one about a character named the Sage.

The Groo story has Groo first defending a group of poachers and then trying to kill them all. They sail away on a boat and Groo's luck with boats is known so nobody will help him. He hears the legend about the elephant graveyard and seeks it out to sell the ivory to buy cheese dip. He finds it and the story ends with a dying elephant falling onto his head.

The Sage gives a child a candy and makes him feel better and some city guards see it and think he is a great physician. They take him to the palace and the queen tells the Sage to heal the King, who is very sick, or she will torture him to death. The Sage finds the king dead in bed. Instead of panicking, he locks the door, starts hollering about how he's healed the king and then throws the body out of the window. Thus ensuring that the death of the king wouldn't fall on his head.

My Thoughts:

This was once again a little amusing interlude to break up the day. The most amusing parts to me were when Groo was trying to hire a boat to chase the poachers and ended up sinking one boat in 4 seconds and another instance of a guy chopping up his own boat “to save time”, hahahahaa. Of course, the final panel is just priceless. How can you not laugh at that irony?

The Sage story wasn't as funny but the twisted thinking of the Sage (throwing the dead king out the window to fake the king's death) really aligned with me and brought a smile to my face. I have no idea if he'll start sharing page time with Groo or if this was just a one-off that Aragones needed to get off of his chest. Personally, while I like Groo better, having 2 stories for the price of 1 is nice and adds just enough variety to keep things interesting. Of course, if the Sage keeps showing up and keeps thinking empty-headed aphorisms all the time, I reserve the right to change my head and want to behead him with a wakizashi ;-)

★★★✬☆… (more)

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