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FRIDAY JULY 25
Larry Marder’s Beanworld Panel
6:00 – 7:00 Room 2

Dark Horse Comics – Booth #2615
2008 Signing Schedule!
SATURDAY, JULY 26:
11:00 – 12:00 Larry Marder: Beanworld

Publishers Weekly’s Wil Moss interviews Larry Marder on future plans for the Beanworld. Man am I getting impatient for the books to actually come out…

Comic Geek Speak has a long audio interview with Larry Marder for your downloading pleasure. Some details about the upcoming books (original 21 issues and various short bits collected in two volumes prior to the new book), Beanworld history, the comics market past and future, working at Image and McFarlane toys and more.

Also, some discussion at their forum about comparing Beanworld to Fraggle Rock.

Here’s a press release from Dark Horse.

Starting in early 2009, Dark Horse will present Beanworld as a series of affordable graphic novels collecting all existing Beanworld stories, with new material to follow in the same format, beginning with the all new graphic novel Remember Here When You Are There! To whet the appetite of new and loyal fans alike, Dark Horse will also release an all new Beanworld webcomic this Fall, with a full color Beanworld comic book to follow in time for the holidays!

Well, okay, not “series”, but definitely animated. FashionBuddha Studio has their one-minute animated “Chow Raid” posted. Words cannot describe how great it is.

Want more? How about a quick animated dancing Beanish close-up? Or the Boom’r Band? Or some screen-caps from the FashionBuddha Flickr page?

Expect more info on this from Larry Marder’s blog soon.

The big news is here, Beanworld going to Dark Horse, with reprints of the original series and new work to come in the next year, specifically a graphic novel called “Remember HERE when you are THERE”.

Good write-up in The Oregonian by Steve Duin on Marder’s presentation of the news and his influences, and an interview by George Khoury at CBR has some more details, including this:

My next story, a graphic novel, is clocking in at about 250 pages, I think, and it more or less wraps up “Beanworld’s Springtime Tales.” The next story enters the “Summer Saga.” The story ends after “Autumn” with the onset of “Winter.”

And also a one-page flyer on the story behind the re-birth of Beanworld.