#Larry Marder's Beanworld

[onedegreeofsoniccomics]

Total Eclipse #3

Writer: Marv Wolfman

Pencils: Bo Hampton with Larry Marder (Beanworld characters)

Additional Pencils: Jim Ritchie & Mark Pacella

Inks: Rick Bryant

Colors: Sam Parsons

Letters: Bill Pearson

[smashedpages]

Happy Birthday to Larry Marder!

[faffreux]

Have you ever heard of/ read Beanworld by Larry Marder? The main characters being beans made me think of you

I HAVEN’T READ IT but I’ve seen the art around! It looks cute!

[mothtowers]

[Larry Marder's Tales of the Beanworld]

[adamstarruvola]

#mtuember Day 5: Marvel Team-Up Spider-Man, Beanish and Mr. Spook of Larry Marder’s Tales of the Beanworld. #Spiderman #marvelcomics Tomorrow (I hope): Spidey teams up with his old pal Easy Reader… but who will be the villain they face? https://www.instagram.com/p/ClytmRtLUWa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#TalesoftheBeanworld #1 (1985) by #LarryMarder, RARE , The Legend of Pop! Pop! Pop!, script and art by Larry Marder; The Mirthful Mossy Mammoth and his clone son attack the Hoi Polloi, source of the Beans sustenance.  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083KJJX2P

[biggoonie]

BEANWORLD BOOK 3: REMEMBER HERE WHEN YOU ARE THERE!

Larry Marder (W/A)

On sale Nov 25 b&w, 186 pages $19.95 HC, 6" x 9"

Fifteen years in the making, Remember Here When You Are There! completes the "Springtime" cycle of stories, in which the perfect harmony of the Beanworld is interrupted for the first time.

Larry Marder's Beanworld is a most peculiar comic book experience, inspired by equal parts Jack Kirby, Native American mythology, Marcel Duchamp, and Robert Crumb. Now, Marder returns to his sui generis creation with the first in a series of original Beanworld graphic novels!

Chock full of characters new and old, this volume sees the Pod'l'pool Cuties learn to fly; Beanish efforts to write a love song; and the long-anticipated return of Heyoka and the Big Fish to the Beanworld!

* Features an introduction by Jeff Smith, creator of Bone and RASL.

[smashpages]

Happy Birthday to Larry Marder!

[tylersticka]

Beanish and Dreamishness, both of Larry Marder’s wonderful tales of Beanworld

[dorkforty]

Quarantine Reading for Your Homebound Enjoyment

So here we are. Funnybooks, like the rest of the world, are on hold and we don’t know when they’re coming back. At the same time, many of us are stuck at home waiting for this whole thing to be over, and in need of some funnybook escapism. So this week, I thought it might be nice to offer up a list of good quarantine reads.

My criteria here were fairly simple: I wanted to talk about less…

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Oh my god, Brendan Frasier is wearing an underground comic book shirt Tales of the Beanworld. 

Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler and Brendan Fraser 1995

[animetrashmuffin]

Hello!! 7, 23 and 24 for the asks game, please? I'm dealing with art block, so I'd love some advice :)

7 is so incredibly hard because I have so many fanworks that I cannot get over but like, trying to dig that shit up in a clear concise way? Impossible so here's some published stuff (all comics/graphic novels - this should surprise no one) that I love and go back to like a second home:

Camelot 3000 by Mike W. Barr and Brian Bolland

Beanworld by Larry Marder

Elfquest by Wendy Pini (shoutout to @kodiaksage for having excellent taste!)

Death, Lies, and Treachery by John Wagner and Cam Kennedy

Jack Kirby's Mister Miracle

Dinosaur Shaman by Mark Schultz

23 is a definite YES - I usually listen to stuff over watching it because for the longest time I was watching Naruto and I like the subs so like...fuck, gotta read. But I am currently listening to an insane combination of Glass Animals, the Wombats, The Knocks and Anime OP mixes. I also listen to audiobooks (currently re-listening to It by Stephen King an absolute favorite)

24 - I'll try my best to articulate...for the most part I don't get artblock (which is unfair of me and why I am the spiders george of the kakairu fandom and I'M FUCKING SORRY Y'ALL) but here's what usually happens - I start to be able to recognize the flaws in my art (because I'm getting BETTER THIS IS A GOOD THING I TELL MYSELF) and that can really take the wind out of your sails...SOLUTION FOR ME - Community. I have been so incredibly lucky to land in some wonderful communities and they are so very supportive but also an inspiration. It's hard (for me) to not want to create when I see everyone else's beautiful creations...and it always helps when everyone else has felt the same way you do and the best thing to do is do what makes you happy (I tend to do incorrect quote comics when I'm feeling down as they always make me happy). And sometimes you just need to get a piece DONE because it will never be where you want it to be and it will fucking haunt you till it's over. EXORCISE THAT SHIT WE AIN'T GOT TIME FOR GHOSTS. I'm so sorry for the novel but I hope if this wasn't helpful it was at least interesting. If you're not part of a community yet and you are interested, check out the @kakairu-discord-server and come scream at me and I'll scream right back.

[strange-destinations]

Dear Yuletide Writer 2019

(As usual, please ignore this if you don’t know what this is about!)

Hello, and thank you so much for writing something for me!! I adore seeing what people come up with for Yuletide and I am super excited for what you end up producing. I want this to be a good and enjoyable experience for you as a writer, so don’t try to second-guess yourself too much - just have fun making whatever it is!

Squicks/DNWS - no sex, please! (And it also follows that I’d rather like to avoid any noncon, kinky stuff even if it’s nonsexual, any other sort of sexual content, etc - that’s just not my sort of thing, really.) Romance is all right, if that’s the way that you want to take things, but I much prefer close friendships and family dynamics. However!! I am pretty much completely fine with body horror/violence, hurt/comfort, etc. 

I love good dialogue, character interaction, twist endings, and imaginative plots - and worldbuilding! Happy endings are preferred but not necessary if it just isn’t working for you.

In general - if you’re thinking about making something gay/trans/queer/ace in any way, you should probably absolutely go for it, because I’m wild for that sort of thing.

AUs are… fine and good, as far as I can think of! (Obv no A/B/O or sex-related stuff please, but) canon divergence, fantasy, high school, etc seem all good to me! Especially if there’s a whole lot of clever nods to original canon in there. 

In addition, I'm always welcome to receiving stuff in interesting and unusual mediums/styles. This includes stuff like Interactive Fiction (additional info here) and multimedia stuff.

Anyway, fandom time. Let's do this, y'all!

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Fandom: Ruby Redfort series - Lauren Child

Available:  I managed to acquire a copy of the full series online via my local library - and the physical copies were at my local library too. I don’t have a link to them, I’m afraid.

Tvtropes page: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/RubyRedfort

Characters: *** Any from *** Ruby Redfort, Hitch, Blacker, Clancy Crew 

About the fandom: I just love it a lot.  I dragged its fandom out of the depths of Tumblr singlehandedly a few years ago and have been doggedly creating content for it ever since. There's just something really compelling about 'bright young kid gets accidentally adopted by spy agency' (yes i know that's not EXACLY what happens but I can dream, right?)

Prompts/suggestions:

Like I said above, I really like the idea of Ruby being essentially adopted by the whole Spectrum team.

I’d love to see some casefic! Blacker and Ruby working together to solve a puzzle or problem - either serious or mundane - or Hitch and Ruby on a stakeout of some sort. Or both!

Some general stuff I like - heists, murder mysteries, rescue missions, characters playing games (e.g. Travelling Lemon, word games, throwing increasingly ridiculous hypotheticals at each other) because they're bored or similar,

Spectrum office shenanigans - stuff that happens between books, when Ruby and everybody else aren’t in mortal danger and that LB will most likely glare disapprovingly at.

On the angstier side of things, if you want to stick Ruby in even more mortal danger than usual I am ALL RIGHT WITH THAT. Rescue missions hell yeah.

AUs??? AUs!!! Modern!AU with Ruby doing extreme sports vlogs and occasionally failing to hide the fact that she's part of a secret spy agency. Is Blacker a hacker? Or a fantasy/medieval AU? Or Ruby Redfort, in space!

I feel like I’ll be delighted with whatever you create, tbh. I can’t think of many ways you could go wrong with it.

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Fandom: Bernice Summerfield (Big Finish Audio)

Available:  Via the Big Finish website, and all of the boxsets from Epoch to New Frontiers are available for free on Spotify! Just look up Bernice Summerfield there.

Tvtropes page: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/BerniceSummerfield

Characters: *** Any from *** Bernice Summerfield, Third Doctor (Warner)

About the fandom: It’s like if Indiana Jones was shorter, actually did his job, and was a kickass woman who was also the Doctor’s companion at one point! Several points. And also she has a considerably larger family than Indiana Jones. Her spinoff kind of transcends a lot of forms of media - she’s in comics, print, animations, audio dramas, and one really hilariously terrible sort-of-fanfilm made by Lisa Bowerman and Sylvester McCoy when they were on some kind of cruise together. And it more or less transcends genre too. There’s been musical episodes right alongside the episode where someone very dear to her manipulates someone else very dear to her into killing (you guessed it) someone who is also very dear to her. It’s a wild ride. Anyway.

Prompts/suggestions:

The Warner!Doctor and Benny era of this series particularly delights me, because Benny and the Doctor just have such a lovely dynamic. There's a bit in the writer's guide for this era that mentions that the Warner!Doctor 'seems to be a grouch' but is actually 'a playful spirit who loves to have fun', and... I just love that? And there is literally no fic with them! Which is an absolute travesty.

I particularly like: heists, murder mysteries, rescue missions, adventures, playing around with genre and style.

It's Doctor Who/Bernice Summerfield!! Which means there's an infinite wealth of planets and times and worlds to explore, if you choose to set it in the regular universe. If, on the other hand, you choose to place it in the Unbound universe, slowly collapsing in on itself, there's probably a lot you can do with this too

The found family dynamic between them!! It's clear that, despite all the snarking and sniping, they really do adore each other quite a bit. If you'd lean into that, I'd be forever grateful.

Apologies for no real specific suggestions - mostly, I just would really like to see these two having fun together and being buds. But also? The angst is good too. Make me laugh/smile or make me hurt, I don't care which.

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Fandom: Beanworld - Larry Marder

Available:  ...I have literally no idea where you can pick this up. I first read it at my local library. I think you can get copies at various book retailers?

Tvtropes page: Non-existent. I should rectify that.

Characters: *** Any from *** Professor Garbanzo, Mr Spook, Beanish, Heyoka (but honestly please throw in everybody in there. I love them all so much)

About the fandom: It's a weird, brilliant, complete unique experience of a comic book set in a world where the rules are very different to ours!

Prompts/suggestions:

I know that pretty much the entire point of Beanworld is that the characters are not human in the least, But I can't help but wonder what a human AU would be like!! Beanish as a struggling art student, the Hoi'Polloi as the local street gang with an unfortunate gambling habit, Heyoka as the weird chaotic neutral genderqueer acrobat who babysits occasionally and is always standing on their head. Or any other direction you want to take it in!! I adore seeing familiar characters in settings that they couldn't possibly find themselves in, in canon.

Bean shenanigans!! What sort of things do they get up to on their Goof-Off Days that we don't see on-screen?

Explore some of the friendships/relationships between the characters! I love some of those good good Bean interactions. For example (but not at all limited to):

Professor Garbanzo and Mr Spook - the ultimate BroTP. I particularly love how well they get along even when you wouldn’t expect them too - how Mr Spook isn’t really a scientific sort of guy but is really encouraging and helpful to her endeavors. It’s good and soft.

Mr Spook and the Chow Sol’jers! A dedicated fighting team that work together and protect each other every day. I’m now wondering what the Chow Sol’jer in-jokes are. They’ve gotta have some, right?

Beanish and Dreamishness - the greatest love story ever told! (If you do end up including this relationship in particular, I’d prefer it if it wasn’t the focus.) Additionally, I’d really love it if you could play around with the idea of love in the Big•Big•Picture being different to how we see it/perceive it in our world! I know it’s kind of vague, and it’s definitely not necessary, but I figured I might as well put it out there.

Heyoka and... everyone. Literally everyone. I love how she interacts with the Beans - how they’re kind of confused as to how she works, but accept her as one of them anyway - and how she interacts with people outside of the Beanworld. The sequence when she’s falling upwards and through the Inspiration Constellation, and how the Constellation is so pleasantly amused by and encouraging of her - it’s really nice. And her as the teacher to the Pod’ll’pool babies!! She’s such a cool character.

Other AUs or canon divergences! Can't think of anything specific off the top of my head, but I'm sure there's some stuff out there.

Literally anything that takes stuff from canon and extends upon it! Especially if you’re playing into the amazingly bizarre and extensive world of the Big•Big•Picture. Because the rules there are definitely not at all the same as they are for our world, and that delights me to no end. I have so many questions about it that I’m nearly certain aren’t going to be answered anytime soon. Like, where does the Thin Lake/Four Realities/Hoi-Polloi zone end?? There’s gotta be an end to it somewhere. Are there other islands like the Beanworld? 

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Fandom: Rainbow Magic series - Daisy Meadows

Available: on your younger sister's bookshelf or at pretty much any library, bookstore or garage sale you'd care to visit.

Tvtropes page: 

Characters: *** Any from *** Rachel Walker, Kirsty Tate, Titania, Oberon (but feel free to throw in any of the million-plus other fairies that exist at your discretion)

About the fandom: Oh, jeez. What to say about this? It's such a bizarre interest of mine. The series has suffered from intense seasonal rot, with literally every book following the same formula. And there are hundreds of books. But it's such a large part of my childhood that it's hard to not feel some sort of affection for it. Plus, there's so many interesting things to explore!

Prompts/suggestions:

Feel free to throw some Kirsty/Rachel shipping in there, because we all know those two were lesbian as all hell. I'd prefer it not to be the focus, though!

Any exploration of the fact that the girls have been doing this for far longer than is strictly reasonable with no complaints, questions, or problems. They've been through like ten Christmas specials and don't appear to have aged a day since the beginning of the series. What's up with that, huh?

To that end - there's plenty of myths and legends about the rules that fae traditionally have. What about applying some of these to the RM fairies? Are Titania and Oberon the leaders of the Seelie Court, with Jack Frost as the Unseelie leader? Do they do the whole Changeling thing? Are Kirsty and Rachel Changelings?

(And bear with me for a second while I point you at a specific line from the very first book, because I think it's very good inspiration for the whole 'giving a fairy your name' thing:)

Kirsty wanted to ask the fairy so many things. But she didn't know where to start.

"Tell me your names, quickly," said the fairy. She fluttered up into the air again. "There's so much to be done, and we must get started right away."

Rachel wondered what the fairy meant. "I'm Rachel," she said.

"And I'm Kirsty," said Kirsty. "But who are you?"

"I'm the Red Rainbow Fairy - but you can call me Ruby," the fairy replied.

Very suspicious.

A Discord server I'm on has been throwing around the idea of the fairies (yes. All of them.) ending up as humans in the human world abruptly, and having to adjust to living life without magic - and dealing with the fact that somehow, their magical domains are functioning perfectly without them. Which is a very compelling idea. How do Rachel and Kirsty deal with their now-possibly-permanent, no-longer-magical neighbours? How are Titania and Oberon coping, now that they no longer have to rule a whole kingdom? What sort of the things do the fairies get up to? Where do they stay?

Aged-up Kirsty and Rachel get called upon to deal with new adult problems that are blooming in the fairy world. (Tiara The Tax Evasion Fairy, anyone?)

...or anything else.

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Again, thank you for writing for me, and I hope you get something awesome in return from your own writer! Good luck!

[rubyvroom]

I’m gonna do this real quick so I don’t put it aside and forget about it like I usually do with these things

Tagged by: @joomju

Relationship Status: Coupled

Favourite Colour: Blue, the kind of turquoise sea-blue shade (not Tumblr blue)

Lipstick or Chapstick?: Lipstick is basically the only makeup I wear but I do wear it fairly consistently.

Last song you listened to: “Seventeen” by Sharon Von Etten 

Downtown harks back Halfway up the street I used to be free I used to be seventeen Follow my shadow Around your corner I used to be seventeen Now you're just like me 

(speaking of Final Girls, SVE has been riding that groove her whole career)

Last movie you watched: Bad Times at the El Royale. Man,  Cynthia Erivo just picks up this movie and runs the hell away with it, doesn’t she? And this is a very solid cast, so that’s really saying something. Keep an eye on her, she’s going places.

Top 3 Characters:

I said in a meme once that if I was a combination of 3 characters it would be Jessica Jones, Brienne of Tarth, and Tara MacLay. I think I’ll stick with those three and let you imagine exactly how you could possibly make a coherent person out of that combination. If you figure it out, let me know.

Top 3 Ships:

Probably the top 3 are Jaime x Brienne from ASOIAF, Fenris/Isabela from Dragon Age, and Parker/Hardison from Leverage. Historically you could throw in Tara/Willow and Mulder/Scully, but they’re still a little below those 3 tbh.

Books and manga you are currently reading: The Calculating Stars - I’ve only just started this so I can’t really say what I think of it yet, but the beginning is very viscerally gripping as a moment-to-moment rundown of what it would be like to live through a meteor strike on earth that wipes out the whole eastern seaboard. Also the Beanworld Omnibus by Larry Marder, collecting together a comic that I’ve had only bits and pieces of since the early 90s. Also re-reading The Wicked + The Divine.  

Top 5 Musicals:

This is a funny question - atm it’s probably N/A because I’m not really into that sort of thing anymore, but I will confess to having been a drama nerd in my shameful past. (Shameful because I was an embarassing teenager at the time) So if I make this an all-timer, I think I can mention A Chorus Line, Les Miserables, Hair, Chicago, and (cringe) Phantom. Film-wise, probably Cabaret.

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1, 21, 30?

1) if someone really wanted to understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to?

They'd read Larry Marder's Beanworld, watch the RE2 RTFD (this is a serious answer) and listen to the entirety of the Give Up album by The Postal Service.

21) do I love easily?

I'm aromantic, so not for romantic love- for platonic love, I used to? Now not as much. I do suuuper latch onto my platonic friends, though.

30) pick one of your favorite quotes

" But such a tide as moving seems asleep, / Too full for sound and foam, / When that which drew from out the boundless deep / Turns again home."

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LARRY MARDER’S ACCLAIMED SERIES “BEANWORLD” TO BE COLLECTED IN OMNIBUS FORMAT

A Life-Affirming, Lighthearted Fantasy Adventure! Beanworld has delighted readers from grade school to graduate school for more than a generation, earning a spot on the New York Times Graphic Books Best Seller List. Now, Dark Horse is proud to announce the collection of Larry Marder’s fan-favorite series Beanworld in an affordable omnibus format. Become acquainted with the iconic legumes of Larry…