Don't Believe Everything You Read

The August edition of Back Issue, which I have just received, contains an interview that was conducted via phone with Sergio Aragonés and me. It's not a great interview and it's marred by a number of terrible transcription errors…like when I talk about a character named "Palandrone" in Groo, that's actually a reference to a team of characters we have named Pal and Drumm. There's also a place where I am quoted as saying our lawyer was incompetent and I can't imagine how that got in there because I have always thought that particular lawyer was brilliant…and twenty-some-odd years later, he still represents me.

There are a number of other errors but the real annoying one comes when I'm quoted as talking about a Marvel exec named "Carol Staley" who was responsible for getting Groo over to that company. The lady in question was the late Carol Kalish, and I apologize to her memory that I didn't demand to proofread the interview before publication. I shall have to remember to do this in the future.