STUMPTOWN!

8th annual Stumptown Comic Fest

Oregon Convention Center

Saturday April 16th 10-6

Sunday April 17 12-6

My Panels:

The Leguminous Life of Larry Marder

Saturday April 16 ● 12 - 12:45 ● Room A105

Beans have been part of Marder's life since the day he was born! The rich visual presentation covers the entire history of his peculiar fantasy dimension including discussion about Marder's many influences. This is your opportunity to discover why Beanworld has captivated readers from grade school to grad school since its first publication as a series of comic books in the 1980s. Now Beanworld is entertaining an entire new generation of fans. Get a glimpse into Marder's next Dark Horse Comics original Beanworld graphic novel "Something More!" And what exactly is "Beanworld 3.5" anyway?

Worldbuilding

Sunday April 17 ● 2-2:25 ● Room A106

Evan Dahm moderates a discussion featuring Carla Speed McNeil, Barry Deutsch, Jenn Manley Lee, Larry Marder, and Kel McDonald, as they share the challenges and rewards of intricate, in-depth world-building for your own fictional settings.

I'll be at table B-21

I'll have:

Series Two FLEECE Beanworld Action Figures!

Dark Horse Beanworld Hardovers

FREE Beanworld Action Figures

Cute Collectible Cards

Beanworld Orphan Drawings

Crazy Trade-Ins

and more!

And whatever you do, do not forget this!

It Came From The Beanworld Archives!

"Late 1970s ~ 20" x 11" ~ Xerography, pen, colored paper, colored markers on cheap copy paper

So I was spending part of my day today thinking about the presentation I'm giving at Stumptown Comics Fest 2011 on Saturday April 16th at noon. (Mouch more on Stumptown in posts over the weekend). I was going through the Beanworld Archives looking for something else and lo & behold, the illo above appeared.

This is from the time I was doing a lot of exploration of how-to-abuse-the-Xerox-machine-at-work. I loved investigating the boundaries of 1970s xerography (a semi-lost art due to digital copying) using photographs I found in the dead files at the ad agency I worked at. Actually at this point, in the late '70s I was in charge of the dead files and for me it was a treasure trove of cornball model photography from the 60s and photos of crops and insects. I rescued all sorts of oddities from the going in the dumpster.

In that day of (analog?) photocopy machines you could really push things in weird directions by copying copies over and over and over again and all sorts of magical things would happen. Now that I think of it, maybe that still can happen, but in this world of digital accuracy I kinda doubt it. Not like back then anyway.

In this primitive world of Magic Tape, Spra-Mount and rubber cement I cobbled together this composition--most likely just seeing-what-I-could-see as I went along. There is are pre-versions of Beanish & Mr. Spook. There is a hint of the Chowdown Pool stairs. There is a more-or-less fully fleshed out Chow Sol'jer.

I don't know why the Madmen-era advertising models people are green. Relatives of J'onn J'onzz maybe.

It doesn't seem finished at all. But I find it interesting. Thought I'd share.

WONDERCON!

Yes, I'll be at Wondercon this weekend. I'm listed in the directory as Beanworld Press. My table in Artist's Alley is AA-095.

I'll be signing at the Dark Horse Booth on Friday at 2.

Amongst other things, I'll have new fresh batch of Beanworld Plush Action Figures/Series 2 that Maryann made.

Plus, FREE Beanworld Action Figures, Crazy Trade-Ins, Beanworld Orphans for adoption, TFAW cards for a CBLDF donation, and other stuff of interest.

And of course, whatever you do, don't forget to do this.

THIS JUST IN!

Three hours high!

That's right!
This stack of CBLDF artist sketch cards is exactly three hours high.

On Saturday night, I jammed at home while my fellow creators were doing the same in Chicago.
Did I have fun?
Hell, yeah.

And for an excellent cause too.
And I'm going to do it again on Wednesday.
Why?
Stay tuned!

LIBERTY JAM: the home version!

If you are in town for C2E2--there is going to be a Liberty Jam in Chicago tonight.
There will be over 40 artists there creating cards for CBLDF Liberty Trading Card set.
I'm not going to be there.

But I am going to be having my own Liberty Jam: The Home Version during the actual hours of the event.

That's right--from 9 pm to midnight central time I'm going to draw as many Liberty artist sketch cards as I can from the comfort of my own studio.

(Those of you that have seen me get go into a zone at a Drink'n'Draw know that once I start you never know what is going to come out of my pen point!)

As I'm creating these one-of-a-kind original works of art--I'll shoot pics, and scan 'em and if I don't screw it up maybe even have some video to see online.

It's going to be a super moon tonight so things should be cracklin' everywhere.

Check in on me on Twitter and Facebook tonight and tomorrow I'll give a recap here including details for Creators who want to protect Liberty through Creativity.

You too will be able to donate your creativity to Liberty Trading Cards from home by playing Liberty Jam: the home version as CBLDF, Cryptozoic and our supporters are throwing the next Liberty Jams around the nation over the next month or two.

Stay tuned for all the exciting details!

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