FREE Beanworld Stuff in Artist's Alley GG 16!

World launch of the latest addition to the
FREE Beanworld Action Figure
line up of most peculiar
leguminous collectibles.

Almost ready to walk out the door
and motor-vate down south
and make the trans-dimensional shifteroo
into Comic-Con time and space.

Hoo-Hoo-HA & a Hoka-Hoka-HEY!

Beanworld Stuff On Sale In Artist's Alley GG 16

Comic-Con International in San Diego is almost here.
I'll be in Artist's Alley--GG 16.
Here is my schedule.

Below are some of the items that will be available at my table.

Look-See Library Series

Series One

Series Two

Color prints limited to a series of 10.
8 1/2" x 11" on natural card stock.

Numbered and signed by the Artist

Includes a Certificate of Legumination

Ashcan Comics

Low run, limited edition ashcan comics.

"Hungry" and "Professor Garbanzo's Joy Ride"
contain early pencil drafts of sequences
that turn up in "Remember Here When You Are There!"

Cute Collectible Cards

The name kinda sez it all.

Color prints of your favorite Beanworld characters on white card stock.

5 1/2" x 4 1/4"

Beanworld Orphan Art

A crazy collection of Beanworld original art drawings
in a multitude of sizes, shapes, colors, papers, and prices.


Also back issues of the original Tales of the Beanworld comic books
will be available in limited quantities.

Commissioned Artwork?
It's always worth a conversation!

All product prices are reasonable and will be posted on site.

"Here There" Look-See Preview At SD09!

A free 12 page "Look-See Preview" will break at SD09
next week at my table in Artist's Alley GG 16.

Here you see Olive assisting in the folding chores.

The Official Larry Marder SD09 Schedule

Artist's Alley
GG 16

Artist's Alley is alllllllllll the way at the end to the left when you enter the room.
It's a hike!
But that is where I will be for almost all of the show.

The exception will be Thursday morning.
I won't arrive until lunchtime because I will be attending my first official Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Board meeting.

Other than that...I'll be rooted in Artist's Alley for the duration.
If you come looking for me--I'll be there!


Thursday, July 23
7:30 PM 'til 11-ish or when they toss us out onto the street.
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s Comic-Con Welcome Party
Westgate Hotel in downtown San Diego.

CBLDF will have many Beanworld Orphan sketches for adoption at this event. Plus, I’ll be sketching my heart out at the annual meeting of the Drink & Draw Social Club. I tend to be very prolific at these Drink and Draw parties, and some of my most oddball ideas come surging out of my pens in the heat of doing sketch after sketch. They can all be yours with all proceeds going directly to CBLDF.

Saturday, July 25
1:30-2:30 PM, Room 4
The One-Panel Panel.

A single image can hold an entire world in miniature.
Douglas Wolk (Reading Comics) will moderate with Charles Vess (Stardust), Hope Larson (Chiggers), Michael Allred (Madman) and Larry Marder (Beanworld), each showing and discussing one particularly meaningful panel from their own comics—how it came together, and where it led them.

I'm very excited about this panel. It was a hard assignment to drill down into such a narrow focus. But once the lightbulb went off over my head I found myself quite pleased with my decision. And I can't wait to see what my fellow artists came up with.


Saturday, July 25
Dark Horse Comics booth
Booth 2615
4:00 - 5:00

Signing

More details as they develop--like the stuff I'll have at the show!

My Studio and the Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies!

BoingBoing pointed me to a site that just made me laugh out loud.
It's The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies.

I laughed because I have used a majority of the gizmos and devices shown. Some I used every day for months, years, decades even.

And as you can see in the above pic I just snapped of my work station--some I still use because I just think better with them than with the computer gadgets that are hard wired into the programs I'm working on.

I never had any interest to learn how to use and air brush, so those supplies are alien to me but just about everything else was something I was very, very familiar with. I never wore one of those visors but I worked with a guy who put a visor and a smock on every day. He was a whiz with the old fashioned drafting tools and he was the guy who taught me all the little tricks to maintaining my rubber cement pot.

In addition to the type rules and proportion wheel seen above, I have a whole lot of other displayed tools squirreled away in drawers in my studio: technical pens, rubylith, loupe glass, kneaded erasers, rubber cement pick-up, PMS book, templates, non-repro blue pencils, Pro-White (yuck!), stainless steel T-square, and enough pens, pencils, inks, markers, and drafting tapes to supply a real bullpen for 6 months.

All I can say is....glad those days are over!

Give me my Wacom Cintiq and Photoshop any day of the week!