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Stephen Weiner's analysis of Jeff Smith's Bone. Since it started being serialized in 1991, Jeff Smith's masterwork Bone has drawn a huge number of readers, intrigued by its subtleties and complexities as the work evolved from a lighthearted romp to a dark fantasy with a richly-built world It is a work worthy of scholarly attention, and[...]

Kathleen Glosan of Cartoon Books posted the announcement on social media regarding the health of Bone creator and publisher Jeff Smith She posted; Special Announcement Jeff Smith is recuperating from a cardiac arrest, which he suffered on Sunday There will be a long road to recovery, so regrettably we must cancel the remainder of his book[...]

While Bone creator Jeff Smith attended the Ohio State University, he created a comic strip called "Thorn" for the student newspaper, The Lantern, which included some of the characters who later featured in Bone There was a partial collection, with a thousand print run, but nothing since Bone became a big thing And copies have[...]

Bone was first self-published by Jeff Smith following the Dave Sim model from 1991 to 2004 Fifty-five issues in all, with Image Comics publishing issues #21-27, before returning to Cartoon Books for issues #28-55 The series was also coloured and reprinted as part of Disney Adventures, gathering ten Eisner Awards during its run[...]

Bleeding Cool have been fans of cartoonist Katie Cook for many years, and especially love the lines that she can command at comic book conventions, outstripping the more mainstream favourites, as people happily queue up for her watercolour cartoon character creations. Katie Cook Auctions Off Four Graphic Novels, As Well As Drawing Bone Publishers Marketplace reports "Comic[...]

And according to The Wrap, that also means some serious pulling back & change in creative focus when it comes to the streamer's animation- changes that resulted in the cancellation of the long-awaited animated adaptation of Jeff Smith's graphic novel series Bone. Image: Jeff Smith In response to not just the Netflix decision but his graphic novel's[...]

Now as the streamer looks to things like an ad-supported second subscriber tier and cracking down on password sharing among subscribers, The Wrap is reporting a move this week that may have even larger ramifications on the streamer's animation content- a move that's led to the long-awaited animated adaptation of Jeff Smith's graphic novel series[...]

30 years after the first issue of BONE debuted, its creator Jeff Smith is launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund his third creator-owned and self-published comic, TUKI  On May 4, the campaign will debut and if successful, fund two different original black and white graphic novels, that will ship this Summer and Fall respectively. TUKI is creator[...]

Jeff Smith's award-winning comic book series Bone will be making the journey from the printed page to television screens, with Netflix developing an animated adaptation series With Smith (SHAZAM! The Monster Society of Evil, RASL) set to oversee production, the streaming series follows the exploits of the Bone cousins as they cross a vast, uncharted,[...]

In the latest Dispatch, Tim shares a followup email exchange with one of the most successful self-published comics of all time, Bone creator Jeff Smith Let's turn it over to Tim for Week 2. Greetings Dieselfunkateers! So you need help or advice I've found that you ask others who have done it Sure you may be[...]

Eisner Award winning cartoonist and 647th most famous person in Ohio, Jeff Smith, is returning to his seminal Bone series for a new picture book in 2018. The book, first reported on Newsarama, will be called Smiley's Dream Book, and is set to hit bookstores next Summer, ahead of an animated Bone movie trilogy announced last[...]

Warner Brothers has just announced that it'll be making not just one, but three animated Bone movies based on the the popular and award winning comic by Jeff Smith Kung Fu Panda director Mark Osborne will executive produce and co-script with Adam Kline. The biggest question here is… what took them so long? Oh, I've no doubt[...]

We told you there was a new Bone comic book coming by and will ship in July. The 32 page Bone: Coda appears in a new Bone volume of the same name followed by librarian and comics historian Stephen Weiner's Bone Companion. And here are the first nine pages… We told you there[...]

It has been twenty-five years since I ordered Bone #1 from the still-rather-large Diamond Previews from my local comic shop, Forbidden Planet, in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. I never got it Apparently three people had to order a comic back then for them to bother ordering it. It's a little easier to purchase now, reprinted repeatedly by Cartoon Books, Image[...]

Newbury Comics and Boom were also prominent. Say, how about a Seth McFarlane version of Bone? Anyone?     So Ted 2 is out Seth McFarlane's sequel to Ted, the highest grossing R-Rated comedy of all time. Telling the story of a sentient teddy bear, all grown up alongside the biy who loved him, foul mouthed, drug/alcohol addled wih[...]

Last weekend BookCon, held in New York city, Heidi MacDonald moderated the Comics Are Awesome panel with Ben Hatke (Zita the SpaceGirl), Jennifer Holm (Sunny Side Up), Raina Telgemeier (The Baby-Sitters Club) and Jeff Smith (Bone). All of these talented artists came to Bookcon to talk about their lives in comics, answer questions and share stories[...]

Jeff Smith's Bone has now been published for ten years in colour from Scholastic, who created their imprint Graphix especially to publish the book. Now in February, they will be publishing a ten year "tribute edition" of the first collection, Out Of Boneville which will contain an extra 48 pages including Bone-inspired comics and art from[...]

The CBLDF, or the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is putting out a CBLDF Banned Books leaflet, available in stores or at shows from July (in time for San Diego Comic Con) and also ahead of Banned Books Week in September. And it comes with a Bone cover by Jeff Smith as, surprisingly, Bone is one of[...]

Like how Bone and Rasl started out But, a bit like a Kickstarter goal, it has been upgraded to full colour… Out in July, here's a quick refresher… 2,000,000 years ago, a great ice age gripped the earth, trapping all moisture in the polar icecaps, causing drought and upheaval in the rest of the world[...]

In 2010, there was an attempt by a mother in Minnesota to get the all-ages comic Bone banned in state-run libraries due to scenes of smoking and drinking. It failed. Was that that? Well no, there was a move to have the series moved from one recommended age range to another in Texas. But that wasn't enough, apparently. Here's[...]

  After a webpage launch last year that Jeff Smith compares to that of Obamacare, Boneville.com has relaunched, with the full first season of Tuki: Save The Humans caveman webcomic available free And even the Bones are happy about it. The second season will begin on May 16th, with the first issue in black and white out[...]

I found a lot of great comics but I've settled, as I have to, on just these Essential 8 Comics for Kids. Bone Over the course of 55 issues irregularly released over 13 years, the one man comic creating machine Jeff Smith created an all-ages comics masterpiece that everyone I talked to told me had to be[...]

Paul Karasik, head of programming for Comic Arts Brooklyn this year, interviewed Jeff Smith (Bone, RASL) on Saturday about his life in comics and the process behind his work, and then Smith live-inked a Bone illustration for the audience, and the piece was then auctioned off on behalf of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund,[...]

Tomorrow, Jeff Smith will be unveiling his newest project: Tuki Save the Humans! at the Society of Illustrators during the benefit brunch for the Comic

This year, at the "The Future: Big New Books in Comics Sci-Fi" panel, hosted by Publishers Weekly's Calvin Reid, Jeff Smith (Bone, RASL), Paul Pope (Battling Boy, One Trick Rip Off), and Faith Erin Hicks (Friends With Boys, The Last of Us) drew quite a crowd, many of whom have been obsessively following these creators for years,[...]

 Our Washington DC Correspondent David Dissanayake writes; This weekend at SPX's Jeff Smith spotlight panel, the man of the hour gave a little more detail about his forthcoming webcomic series Tüki Save the Humans. The new webcomic from the creator of Bone and RASL will center on the first homo erectus to migrate away from the cradle[...]

Nikolai Fomich let's us know from the Jeff Smith panel at San Diego Comic Con that we can expect New Bone material by Jeff Smith from Scholastic, all new, all by him. And the Artists Editions of Bone from IDW will also have new material… UPDATED with more: The IDW Artist's Edition will feature great cow race Boneville.com will[...]

The second series starts in February. Color Bone from Scholastic Books I've known about Bone by Jeff Smith for years But it was never something I wanted to read But like with most things after having kids, my perceptions and what I was looking for in comics changed And this book has it An epic story[...]

Such a difference to Bone, but still with the emotional core of that book, with monsters and grotesques and the strangest looking beautiful people. Dave Sim continues to give us quite the mix in Glamourpuss #25, with Canadian model Kyla Nicolle posing for scenes and being grabbed by the narrative, and an argumentative bunny rabbit, into[...]

The push from Th3rd World Studios for their upcoming series Finding Gossamyr (which looks like it has major potential to be a breakout this summer in the vein of Bone and The Amulet) also has us excited Sam Humphries and Tyler James have both done incredible things with their micro-distro outreach.  I'd love to see[...]