Mark Evanier

A fictionalized, in-universe version of real-life writer Mark Evanier, who co-creates the Groo series, appearing as a comic character within the very Groo stories he helps write — a playful meta-cameo alongside collaborator Sergio Aragonés and the bumbling swordsman Groo.

There's a delightful meta-magic at work when a real-life comics legend steps into the very pages he helps create — and that's precisely what makes Mark Evanier, the character, such a charming curiosity in the Groo universe. Debuting in 1987's Epic Graphic Novel: The Death of Groo alongside collaborator Sergio Aragonés, this fictionalized version of the celebrated writer has popped up across roughly 27 years of Groo adventures, sharing panels with the wandering fool himself, his loyal dog Rufferto, and the likes of Sage and Dakarba. With 14 catalog appearances spanning Image publications and even The CBLDF Presents: Liberty, he's a winking in-joke for devoted fans — proof that in the wonderfully anarchic world of Groo, no one, not even the man behind the scripts, is safe from being drawn into the chaos.