Bone World Tour
Our official press release:
Jeff Smith, creator of the indy title BONE, announces the first leg of a year long Bone World Tour to promote the release of the color BONE volumes across Europe and North America. Smith's company Cartoon Books, which licensed the color rights in the US to Scholastic Books in 2005, has now found publishing partners in Greece, Spain, France, U.K, Norway, Italy and French Canada. There will be tour stops in all countries.
The tour begins at Frankfurt Book Fair, which will feature a 40 piece Bone exhibit in the comics pavilion. Then moves to the Babel Festival in Athens, which will host a 30 piece exhibit of all original art. Smith will continue to criss-cross Europe until the first leg of the World Tour will ends Feb. 23 at the New York Comic Convention in time for the release of Scholastic’s newest color edition of Bone, ‘Rockjaw, Master of the Eastern Border’.
Scholastic, under the imprint Graphix, has sold over 1, 000,000 copies of the color Bone edition to date.
The tour so far:
Oct 3-10 – Germany Frankfurt Book Fair and book tour including Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg 40 piece exhibition at Frankfurt Book Fair's Comics Center visit German publisher Tokyopop
Oct 12-15 – Greece Babel Fest in Athens with 30 piece Bone original art exhibition visit Greek publisher Jemma
October 16-21 – Spain Spanish Book Tour including Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao visit Spanish publisher Astiberri
Oct 21-24 – France and Belgium French book tour including Paris and Brussels visit French publisher Editions Delcourt
Oct 25-26 – U.K. English book tour including London visit U.K. publisher Harper Collins
Oct 27-29 – Norway Bok i Sentrum festival in Oslo visit Norwegian publisher Egmont
November 3-5 – Italy Lucca Comics Festival visit Italian publisher Panini
November 18-20 – Canada Montreal Book Fair visit French Canadian publisher Modus Vivendi
February 23-25 (2007) – USA New York Comicon visit the New York Comicon Website
For detailed information about stops in each country, visit Jeff's Studio. Dates are still being added at this time.
Although there would have to be demand, I hope there’s a chance for an appearance at some San Francisco Bay Area cons, such as Fanime (although that would really be stretching it) or, more suitably, A.P.E. con.
Comment by John — September 14, 2006 @ 8:16 pm
Wow!
That sounds so exciting. I hope it is a fantastic trip. And you guys meet some incredible people and have many awesome experiences!
Did you ever think when you started you’d be doing world tours and selling millions of copies of your books?
Comment by Will Terrell — September 14, 2006 @ 8:54 pm
Ouaw, it’s the best news of 2006 and since a couple of years…
i’m very very happy to know it and to have a chance to meet the man who create the most wonderfull comics that i love…
See you soon
Ch
ps : sorry for my english i hope it’s not too bad…
Comment by Chouch — September 15, 2006 @ 2:20 am
no stopover in the Netherlands? I’ll have to try and get to Belgium then…
Comment by Sean — September 15, 2006 @ 3:17 am
Jeff
I see you’re down for visiting Harper Collins in London. They’re MY publishers also (or one of them). We should definitely try and hook up, although we’re expecting our next rugrat on 8th October. Might have to play it by ear….
C
Comment by Curtis Jobling — September 15, 2006 @ 7:39 am
Hello from Spain.
In Spain we have been eight years reading Bone in comic-books. Last issue was 46.
Now, there are some rumours that we can’t read the last 9 issues…
Is It true that after eight long years we can’t finished our bone collection in comic-books?
Enjoy your visit to our country.
Comment by Ivan — September 15, 2006 @ 10:39 am
Ivan,
I can’t wait to visit Spain. I always have a wonderful time. I went to Barcelona a few years ago and it was one of the best shows I’ve ever been to! I am very sorry to say that we did not know Bone was still being published in Spain. Our original publisher stopped communicating with us years ago. We did not know they had come so close to the end of the series. They contacted us only recently, but it was too late, and now we are learning that many readers are missing the very end of the story. I am not happy with this situation. I’m not sure what we will do, but we will try to speak with the new publishers and find a solution.
Comment by Jeff Smith — September 15, 2006 @ 12:06 pm
Curtis,
Let’s definitely try to hook up! With a newborn, your schedule will be unpredictable, so we’ll do our best. I’ll send you an e-mail and see what we can do.
Comment by Jeff — September 16, 2006 @ 6:01 pm
Sorry Sean,
The Netherlands were in, then out - - in again - -but now out. We had a great meeting with a consortium of publishers in San Diego 2005 that would have covered Sweden and the Netherlands, but for a number of reasons, it didn’t work out. Hope you can make it to one of the other stops.
Comment by Jeff — September 16, 2006 @ 6:05 pm
Hello from Spain:
I’m another of the Bones’s readers who has bought this comic since eight years ago on the “Dude Comics” spanish edition and I don’t know if I can read the nine numbers on comic-book format (this is my desire) or I’ll forced to buy the most expensive edition in format book that is going to publish Astiberri.
I hope that Jeff Smith and the new “Bone” spanish publisher reach an agreement and the Spanish readers who we have bought Bone in format comic book we finish reading this comic in this format.
Comment by DCFan — September 18, 2006 @ 7:27 am
[…] Recientemente Iván, un asiduo visitante de diversas webs se decidió a preguntarle directamente a Jeff Smith por el tema y de forma pública, así que preguntó en el blog de Jeff Smith por el tema. Y ahí nos encontramos con algo sorprendente. Pero, veamos las preguntas: […]
Pingback by Via News 3.0 » Sobre Bone y los jaleos de la edición en España — September 18, 2006 @ 11:17 am
Last year my friends and I went to New York Comic Con and I asked if you’d be going– you said no, maybe next year. Who knew you were so good at keeping your promises! Thanks so much Jeff (whether or not this was specifically per my request or not)!
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Comment by limewire — December 12, 2006 @ 8:38 pm
Hi,
I was very sad to notice that Portugal, a beautiful but very often forgotten country was left aside in the world tour, it’s a pitty because Jeff Smith has many fans eager to get in touch with him (and with some luck have a drawing as a present
).
) will love Bone as much as I did with the advantage that they aren’t going to have to suffer as much as I did for the next issue to hit the stores.
)
Personally I still remember the first day I get the source book of Bone in my hand through the store where I used to buy comics in 91 and since then I collected all Bone issues and the related issues like Rose that reached my country, I just hope my two baby daughters when they learn to read (they have to learn to speak first
The main event we have in Portugal is BD Amadora but it still have much to do in order to be a reference in the world tours…hope it will reach there so all the comic protuguese fans may have contact with the best living artists in the world, fortunatly some of you already stopped by.
As for me I just hope to get to know Jeff Smith one day and congratulate him personaly for the wonderful characters he created and the hours of happiness he provided me reading his books…and with some luck convince him to do an artwork with Bone and his friends
Best of luck and a wonderful 2007
João
Comment by João Antunes — January 7, 2007 @ 9:50 pm