Larry Marder has posted an interesting new blog entry this week showing us a Neil Gaiman sketch in his “Bean Book” from 1992. The Bean Book was a little sketchbook he carried around and hit everyone and anyone up for sketches with one simple rule: “Draw anything you’d like but please have it make some reference to beans.”
He carried it around for 8 years between ‘86 and ‘94 and now he’s decided that it’s time to start sharing some of the sketches with us. This is a very good thing.
(Neil Gaiman’s SandBean from Larry Marder’s Bean Book sketchbook – Nov 1992)
Even better is that December sees the first new Beanworld book in far too many years, just in time for the 25th anniversary of Beanworld in 2010. If you’re not already a fan of this most peculiar, most wonderful comic book experience I can heartily recommend that you get the two Dark Horse collections of everything Bean so far (Book 1, Book 2). And then wait with baited breath for the release of Remember Here When You Are There on December 3rd. You’re in for a rare treat.
(Larry Marder’s Beanworld Book 3 – coming in December.)
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