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Beanworld, Vol. 1 by Larry Marder5/13/2023 During his travels he visited the quadrennial Documenta 5 exhibition where he assisted performance artist James Lee Byars for several weeks. In between his junior and senior years he travelled extensively throughout Europe. During this time he was immersed in the burgeoning New York art world meeting prominent artists such as Robert Smithson, Mel Bochner, Vito Acconci, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. "I probably spent more time in high school thinking about Kirby comics than I did about my own homework."Īfter graduating from high school in 1969, he attended Hartford Art School until he graduated in 1973. Later, when he did some work for comic book publishers & distributors, he was often paid in comics! He first visited a comic shop in 1975 (which he describes as a "mind-boggling" experience). He discovered underground comics in the late 1960s. He was one of the original Marvel Comics fans having been introduced to them in their first years of publication in 1962. He started reading DC Comics in the late 1950s. In the era of anti-comics hysteria in the late 1950s, his parents didn't let him have comics. Marder has been a reader of comics since childhood.
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