Sergio Aragonés has been a cartoonist with Mad magazine for over four decades and has published many collections of his work. Aragonés's series of books about Groo, a simple, not-too-bright barbarian warrior whose exploits result in as much damage to his own cause as to his enemies, have been especially popular with readers. Done in collaboration with writer Mark Evanier, the "Groo" books are, according to Steve Raiteri in Library Journal, "a very funny, long-running series."

Aragonés was born in Castellon, Spain, in 1937, during the midst of the Spanish Civil War. To avoid the fighting, his family left Spain when he was only six months old and went to stay in a refugee camp in France for several years. At the outbreak of World War II the family migrated to Mexico, and Aragonés grew up in Mexico City. His father...