See? I still use a pencil sometimes!

See?

I still use a pencil sometimes!

A sketch and an uncorrected panel from "Something More!"

Oh yeah, it will also be in a new ashcan called "Glimpse Book."

I'll have it at Comic-Con.

More details as I go along..

WONDERCON!

Oh, yes,

I'll be at
WONDERCON
March 16-18
at the Anaheim Convention Center

Artists' Alley

AA-076

I'll have a notebok full of pages from

Larry Marder's Beanworld Book Four: Something MoRE!

with which to tease Beanworld fan WonderCon attendees most mercilessly.

I'm fortunate enough to be a last minute addition to the panel:

Comics for Kids3:00-4:00

Room 203

Despite the fact that most of us fell in love with the comics medium when we were children,
good comics for kids seem few and far between...or are they?
Join moderator and APE Entertainment editor Aaron Sparrow, artist James Silvani (Darkwing Duck, Richie Rich), artist Amy Mebberson (The Muppet Show, Strawberry Shortcake, Toy Story),
Shane Houghton (Reed Gunther, Casper Scare School), Archaia editor Paul Morrissey,
Beanworld creator Larry Marder and more for a lively discussion on kids comics, their place in the industry, and how to break into the business!
As a bonus, children attending the panel will be eligible to win comic books and sketches t
he artists will draw during the panel!

In the meantime, however, take a look-see at the page above.

It's a tantalizing teaser for everyone, everywhere!

(And it's not even Tuesday!)



Tantalizing Tuesday Teaser!

Here is a panel I just finished drawing featuring Proffy, Heyoka and one of the artifacts from Beanworld 3.5!
All in a panel from Larry Marder's Beanworld Book Four: Something More!

Argh.
Just noticed I forgot to fill in the textures on the door.
Back to work!

Today IS Tuesday--So Here's A Tantalizing Teaser!

The above will be in Beanworld Book Four: Something More and will appear a bit before this.

No, it's not scheduled yet but I'm told the color volume we so fondly call Book 3.5 aka Tales of the Beanworld will be on Dark Horse's schedule for June.

Hey Kids. It's the return of the Beanworld Tuesday Tantalizing Teaser!

I told'ja there is gonna to be a whole lot of rain & the Boom'r Band
in the next hardcover original graphic novel, Something More, aka Larry Marder's Beanword: Book Four

Here's a peek at both.

It's not Tuesday but here's a Teaser!

This frame is connected to one I teased you with a while back.

I'm deep into a significant sequence that sets into motion events having lasting ramifications the Boom'r Band, Professor Garbanzo, the rapidly growing up Pod'l'pool Cuties, and even

Beanish and Dreamishness are (indirectly) in on it.

An earlier rough of this sequence has been hinted at before. Same actions (more of less) but replaced elsewhere into the ongoing continuity. It's directly related to the MDHP #14 online comics "? & !"

I work in such a strange slow fashion. I'm totally unable to sit down and write a story with a beginning middle and end. A Beanworld story is a bit like a Joseph Cornell assemblage. Instead of sculptural bits and pieces, the found objects I work with fall out of my head in no apparent order. I work with these story shards until they feel right.

But when they do feel right, then all sorts of doors open and linkages that previously weren't there appear. It's that kind of week. Thought I'd share a bit of it with you.

Tuesday Tantalizing Teaser!

Maryann Charmoz of ByTheLakeArt just wrote
and said the Beans are bagged and on their way!

So if UPS is willing and the crick don't rise,
a bunch of these these squeezably soft li'l cuties
will be ready for you to adopt them at SD10.

After Comic-Con
Maryann and I will offer
Fleece Beanworld Action Figures
of all sizes and colors for sale from her site.

If you can't one this go 'round...
there are going to be plenty more chances in the future.

Keep watching here for more details.
(And, oh yes, they are going to be very reasonably priced!)

TuesdayTantalizing Teaser!

Getting there.

Hand made in the Berkshire Hills
ByTheLakeArt

Hey kids! It's Tuesday Tantalizing Teaser time!

A panel from "Something More."
Here's a hint.

It's not Tuesday but I think this qualifies as a Tantalizing Teaser!

An unfinished detail
from an unfinished panel
from an unfinished page
of Something More!

I'll remind you again before the event
that I'll be in Artists Alley (AA103)
at WonderCon in San Francisco next week.

Another Teasing Tantalization!

A moment before a moment before a really BIG moment
to be revealed within the early pages of Something More.

And then the action is really gonna start growing skywards at a very rapid pace.

Wahoowaxuma!

If it's Tuesday--it's time for some teasing!

A panel layout from Something More!
(yes, it IS a layout ...not a finish)

What do YOU think the the Boom'rs up to?
(...and yes, Conor, it is about something you are very curious about!)

Hey Kids, it's another Tuesday Tantalizing Teaser!

"What th-?"

A teaser from
Larry Marder's Beanworld: Book Four
"Something More!"

Yet more Hoo●Hoo●HAs & Hoka●Hoka●HEYs!

Great correspondence coming in from all over the place: via gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and of course right here on the blog.

As always...italics are me--roman font is you guys!
(I'll be jumping into the letters and commenting as we move along!)

Damin Toell wrote:

Hi Larry,

Excuse my being dull if I'm missing it, but is there a way to order the recent Dark Horse BEANWORLD publications autographed by you? I tried going through your blog a little while back, as well as the links to retailers you have, but I didn't seem to turn anything up. Perhaps there's a way to order directly from you?

Please accept my apologies if this isn't something you're inclined to provide, but it seems like such a celebratory time for us Beanworld fans (between the books and your online presence) that it has awakened a geeky/youthful optimism in me.

I greatly appreciate that awakening, Damin.
As far as inquiring about autographed books via the mail, it's certainly nothing to apologize for, but the answer is regrettably this isn't something I'm set up to do.
Nowadays anyway.

The reason I go to conventions and make the occasionally store appearances is to sign as many things as a fan puts in front of me. I really enjoy meeting, greeting, and otherwise intermingling face-to-face with Beanworld fans but in the meantime it is in every one's best interest for me to devote all my time and energy to making more Beanworld stories.

Anonymous wrote:

I've read Here There a couple of times already and plan on many more re-reads, knowing I'll find new things each time.

I'm still not 100% clear on one thing though - In the previous volume, Heyoka changes the bean template by entering it, and in this volume, when she leaves it, it reverts back to normal. At least that's my reading of the situation.


That's correct.

My question, though, I guess boils down to, what was the point of that episode? I don't really get a sense that her alteration of the template really did anything, other than remove her from the playing field for awhile. Does the template affect the beans or the whole Beanworld?

If it affects the beans themselves, could it have affected the Cuties even if the alteration happened after they had already emerged from their Pod'l Pool? They have displayed unusual growth patterns re: their limb growth after all, though I don't see how that matches up with Heyoka's alteration to the template. I'm a bit flummoxed on this one. Anyone else have any thoughts on just what did or didn't result from Heyoka's time in the template?

I'm glad you made these observations and asked these questions, Anon.
Beanworld wanted its readers to start wondering about these very things.

The" Beanworld Influence" at the Goofy Service Station, or as the Goofy Service Jerks call them the "Factories," are the source of "Blessing Stuff" that the Jerks call "Reproductive Propellant."
Reproductive Propellant allows Gran'Ma'Pa to make new Pod'l'pools.
And out of the Pod'l'pools come Baby Beans.

Once the Reproductive Propellant leaves the Service Station it is no longer attached to it it in any direct way.
So any affect/effect Heyoka, may or may not have on future Reproductive Propellant is up in the air at the moment.

What went on and (will go on) between Heyoka and the Beanworld Influence is looming large in the creative process right now.
There will be more about this in Book Four, "Something More!"
I know this because I spent the better part of yesterday drawing a sequence that takes a look at this very subject.
I guess that can suffice as a small Tuesday teaser!




Jesse wrote:

I've been a fan of your work for the better part
of my life at this point. A kind uncle of mine turned my father and I
towards the Beanworld back when issue 5 of the comics had just come
out, and we avidly collected and read and hypothesized from that point
forward. We pored over the letter pages as much as the panels looking
for clues, and chided ourselves for not noticing the single left
handed Hoi Polloi before you'd called it out yourself.

(I don't think you are alone on that account. And for those of you that are newer to the Beanworld--check out "Wahoolazuma!" pg 67)

My dad and I had some wonderful, amazing times both with your books
and inspired by your books. Trips to the local comic shop were
exciting times for a 12 year old me, and no matter what else I was
reading at the time if there was a new Beanworld out whatever else had
my attention was put down so that it could come home with us.

That same kind uncle even took me out to the San Diego Comicon one
year (I'd guess in the mid-to-late 80's) and I got to actually meet
you and shake your hand and thank you in person for what you'd done.

You were kind and gracious to me, even when i gawked and pestered you
like a nerd.

(Jesse, no matter how cool anyone might seem sitting on the other side of the table, in the comics game, we are all nerds!)

And! You gave us action figures! We held onto those
little dried beans so long that one of them actually sprouted.

(As I've said before, that is my favorite phenomenon! When FREE Beanworld Action figures...well...do some action!)

A few days ago my fiance's eyes flashed across the sharpie-drawn
artwork she'd seen a hundred times before on the back of my old bass
guitar, but this time she called out "Hey! That's Beanish!"

She's been reading the old issues with interest and fascination, and
encouraging me to email you just to say "Hi!" since the magic of the
Internet has made you so easy to drop a note to these days. When she
recognized Beanish and called him out by name it gave me the push I
needed to send this to you.

(Thank you, Jesse's fiance!)

I've attached a phone cam picture of the back of the headstock so that
you could see the faded remains of the lovingly-scribbled bean and
miscellaneous mixed realities that i had scrawled on it when i was 18
or so. I'm hoping it at least gives you a grin, because your work has
made me smile (and ponder) since I was a child.

(I love seeing ancient Beanworldish artifacts!)

I can't thank you enough for picking this all back up again. We have
missed you dearly, and now I'm back to eagerly anticipating and
pondering with childlike glee.

I'm glad simply that you're out there, being Larry Marder. Thank you
so so much for sharing yourself with us.

Thank YOU, Jesse. I had too many truly amazing adventures in other dimensions to regret the time I was away from Beanworld, but enough was enough, and I'm back to stay!
I truly believe the best is yet to come.

Keep those cards and letter coming folks!

First Tuesday Tantalizing Teaser of 2010!

A sol'jer on a scout in the sky.

Found some sort of herd in migration.

"The sky sure is full of Mysterious Things!"

A NEW Tuesday Tantalyzing Teaser!

While we are all waiting for Remember Here When You Are There! to arrive and go on sale, I thought I'd show you something completely different.

It's an uncorrected panel (without its lettering) from a non-Beanworld, non-Dark Horse project that I'm doing for an old friend of mine.

I don't believe the project has been announced yet.

When it is...you'll be the first to know.

Meanwhile, there are also several unannounced Beanworld Dark Horse projects slotted onto next year's work schedule.

More on those later too.

"Here There!" Teaser Freezer!

It's Tuesday and I thought I'd do a

Remember Here When You Are There!

teaser today.

To my surprise I realized that any sort of teaser I plucked out of the book

at this point might act as less a "teaser" and more of a spoiler."

Can't do that!

So, instead, here is the artwork
(without the dialogue)
from another tale altogether.

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It's An I-Don't-Know-What-Day-It -Is-Anymore Teaser!

It's deadline crunch time here!

A panel from page 139 of
"Remember Here When You Are There!"

Beanworld Book Three.

An original graphic novel.

It's NOT Tuesday...but it IS a Teaser!

It's becoming more of a challenge to find stuff that "teases" without revealing too much!

But here is a panel from page 46 of the original Beanworld graphic novel, "Remember Here When When You Are There!"

Professor Garbanzo and the Pod'l'pool Cuties are in the midst of an educational endeavor deep inside Proffy's Fix-It Shop.

Can it be? A Teaser actually on Tuesday?

Uh huh.
It most certainly is.

A few panels from
"Remember Here When You Are There!"
Page 80.