This year marks the 20th anniversary of Groo the Wanderer, a silly comic book that I've been doing with Sergio Aragonés since…well, since twenty years ago. We do it just to put the lie to the once-made claim that a creator-owned comic book can neither exist nor come out in anything resembling "on time."
A number of Groo items are coming out before the year is over. The second issue of our current, new 4-issue mini-series, Groo: Death and Taxes, is now in stores. Coming out in the next two weeks are two trade paperbacks from Dark Horse, the covers of which are seen above. The Groo Maiden (left) is a collection that reprints four stories from eons ago, when Marvel published Groo as part of their Epic line. Groo: Mightier Than the Sword (right) is the collected edition of our recent mini-series of the same name — a story borne of its authors' rising distrust of the media. Several more Groo paperbacks will materialize from Dark Horse in the coming months, including some sort of special anniversary volume reprinting Groo oddments and including some new stuff.
Also in the meantime, Graphitti Designs is bringing out a fancy, hardbound limited edition which reprints the two graphic novels we did for Marvel/Epic. One is The Life of Groo and the other, appropriately enough, is The Death of Groo. They're repackaged back-to-back in fine binding with new bookplates signed by Sergio and me. (That's what I was doing for a couple days last week: Signing my name.) You can order this one over at Graphitti's website. Or you can forget about the books altogether and just send money to Sergio. Every so often, he shares it with me.