Monday, December 29, 2025

"The End" Week: Sergio Aragonés Funnies #12!

Even though I often lament that I don't have the organizational skills god gave a goat, I have been putting together a short box full of Sergio Aragonés stuff. Which is mostly Groo, sure, but there's some others! From 2014, Sergio Aragonés Funnies #12, story and art by Sergio Aragonés.
This was his last issue with Bongo, which still had a couple years left in it; and Sergio explains his intention to continue the series at another publisher: I'm not sure he did, at least under this name.
If I'm lucky, maybe I blogged Sergio's issue of Solo this year; which features "I Killed Marty Feldman." This issue features a more upbeat story of him meeting an idol, in this case the great Toshiro Mifune during the filming of Ánimas Trujano. Sergio's dad Pascual Aragonés had been a production manager and producer, and Sergio often seemed to show up for 'visits' conveniently whenever some star was around!
Posted by googum at 9:00 AM
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4 comments:

Mr. Morbid said...

Did Sergio ever explain why he left Bongo? Has any explanation been given for why Groo has been published by so many different publishers?

11:30 AM
googum said...

The Bongo thing I don't know, and Sergio might have done other stuff for them after that. Mark Evanier would probably say something like they are to publishers as Groo is to ships...

6:37 PM
H said...

Yup, the term ‘curse’ has been thrown around- basically everybody that’s published Groo other than Dark Horse has gone out of business or ended if it was an imprint of another publisher. Sergio’s done plenty for Bongo since- mostly in specials.

I don’t think he ever got Funnies going again and I don’t think you blogged his Solo issue, though you got all his major company parodies this year except the Star Wars one. I mentioned that I found a bunch of his non-Groo stuff a little bit back (including the Solo) so you might be thinking of that.

8:37 PM
Anonymous said...

Hmmm, that does sound pretty cursed

9:29 AM

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