Oh, kick ass! Beanworld finds a publisher in Dark Horse!
Via Jonathan Miller.
Let me just say this: Not one book in my entire history of reading comics was more effective at attracting non-comics readers than Larry Marder's Tales of the Beanworld. It is brilliantly effective, all-ages, ecological myth-fantasy. Highest recommendation.
Posted by Greg at May 1, 2008 12:37 AM
I am so there.
Comment from retailer Brian Jacoby on one of the sites:
I'll carry Beanworld even if it's only published on giant triangular stone tablets one mile on each side.
Wow--I had no idea you read my journal! By the way, it's worth mentioning that Steve Duin clarified what he said in his article about the reprints:
"Fear not: I understand Dark Horse will republish the first 21 issues in several formats, INCLUDING deluxe hardcovers. I should have made that more clear for Beanworld fans on a budget. My apologies."
Which is good news to this Beanworld-on-a-budget fan who appears to have lost all but the first few and last few issues in the past decade...
Well, "Hoka hoka gunk-l-dunk, hoka hoka hey!!!" (It's been so long I'm sure the spelling is off)
Beanworld is fondly remembered. Even Beanish's pivotal appearance in "Total Eclipse" which was Eclipse Comics' Crisis-like mega crossover.
And then there's the all-too-brief Image run in that one anthology title that I bought just for the Beanishness.
D'oh. The board code doesn't parse links. [No, just malformed HTML--you forgot to quote the href in the a tag.--gpm]
I cut and pasted it to my own site: http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/misc/Beanworld