The Comedian and... Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx.

Excerpt from an interview with Dave Gibbons published the 15th of June on Entertainment Weekly.

Dave Gibbons: The one thing we knew about the character of the Comedian was he couldn’t look like the Joker. He couldn’t look like a deranged clown. So I thought, “Who else would be a comedian? Who could I think of?” The one that leaped to mind was Groucho Marx because he had the mustache and the cigar and the kind of slicked back hair. So he was very much a toughened-up version of Groucho Marx, which was what I had in mind. 

The complete interview is available here.