a self-contained fairy tale about a group of beings who live in the center of their perfect world [and are] obsessed with maintaining its food chain", a self-described "really low concept!" Equally, he says, "the reader has to invest a certain amount of mental energy to follow the book", which includes "maps and a rather long glossary". Despite these potentially conflicting comments, Wiater and Bissette reiterate that "there is no simpler or more iconographic comic book in existence". Marder ultimately suggests that In April 2008, at the Stumptown Comics Fest, Marder announced that he would resurrect Beanworld with Dark Horse Comics "sometime early next year [2009]". Diana Schutz was set to edit the resurrected series, which would also be collected by Dark Horse. Other work Marder was involved with "the DLG – Direct Line Group – which [was] a coalition of fifteen retailers that was put together by Gary Colabuono of Moondog's ... [as] an opportunity for the large chain retailers to have a forum to discuss their problems and pool their resources to figure out how they can best help themselves in [comics'] new marketplace". Marder, speaking in 1992/3 suggested that "distributors are ... not focused much on helping the established comic book stores expand", and hoped that the DLG would aid in "promot[ing] environments that are going to help alternative comics grow". Working with Moondog's, Marder described the paradox of "a situation where retailers want the books, and the publishers have the books, but somehow they can't get them to more readers". Continuing his drive to solve the potential problems of the direct market, he was appointed Executive Director of Image Comics in 1993, when he was made president of Image-co-founder Todd McFarlane's action figure arm, McFarlane Toys. Marder served as President of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit organization founded in 1986 chartered to protect the First Amendment rights of the comics community, from 2010 to 2018. Partial bibliography The following feature work by Larry Marder. Tales Of The Beanworld #1-#21 (Eclipse Comics) Larry Marder's Beanworld Book 1 (Collects #1–4) Larry Marder's Beanworld Book 2 (Collects #5–7) Larry Marder's Beanworld Book 3 (Collects #8–11) Larry Marder's Beanworld Book 4 (Collects #12–16) Larry Marder's Beanworld Book 1, Dark Horse Books, Collects #1-9 Larry Marder's Beanworld Book 2, Dark Horse Books, Collects #10-21 Larry Marder's Beanworld Book 3, Dark Horse Books, all new material Larry Marder's Beanworld