January 24, 2008

Bone Volume 7: Ghost Circles Arrives!!

Filed under: Bone — Steve @ 1:31 pm

Steve here!  We received our comp copies of the newest Bone book from Scholastic!  I'm very happy with the printing quality, as always, and the story is really hitting hard!  We only have one more book to color as I finish working on Volume 8: Treasure Hunters very soon!

As I've said in the past, working on the colorized Bone books has been an awesome experience, and I will be sad when it's over.  Also, very relieved and proud!!  

The books are hitting stores now, so post a comment if you see them in your area!  We love to hear from the fans when they get their brand new books! 

You can buy the book here if you can't find it in your area.

33 Comments »

  1. I got mine last Friday! Beautiful work as always.

    I’m reading these (before passing them to my nephew) for the first time as they come out. He loves it (Rock Jaw’s his favorite so far) and I’m blown away by the quality.

    Comment by Matt Algren — January 24, 2008 @ 1:49 pm

  2. I don’t know if it’s there yet, but I’ll be swinging by Quimby’s (in Chicago) right after work to check. Thanks!

    Comment by Brandon — January 24, 2008 @ 1:49 pm

  3. I picked it up at a local bookstore last week. Its looks great. Congratulations!

    Comment by Steve Weiner — January 24, 2008 @ 4:30 pm

  4. I saw it on the shelf, but I recently got into the Bone books and I just broke the bank and bought the first 6! What a great series.

    Comment by Dave Hilden — January 24, 2008 @ 6:25 pm

  5. Freaking Amazing work. Aboslutely mind-blowing.
    I really liked the use of the reds, yellows, browns and oranges.
    And the Ghost circles are really cool as the rat creatures dissapear.
    I always imagined for some reason that it looked like the rat creatures were exploding., lol.
    but awesome, awesome job

    Comment by Marcus — January 24, 2008 @ 7:11 pm

  6. Can I re-post from the previous entry since this one wasn’t up yet? Hope that’s cool :) I just received my hardcover of Bone 7 as well as the paperback I ordered for my brother. The glossy cover on the hardcover – both the book itself and the jacket – gives slightly darker but also slightly richer colours, enough to be noticeable, but the cover is gorgeous either way. The tone of the paperback cover is more aqua. I’m still loving the solid colour backs of the hardcover books. Also, if I’m not mistaken, this is the first of the hardcover books to be bound with sewn binding. This allows the pages to spread open further on the hardcover, which is especially cool for the three epic spreads in this volume. The bleakest of the Bone books, Steve still does a lot of really cool things with the colours and again, as always, brings the story to new life. I would imagine it was a bit of an easier volume to colour, but at 150 pages it’s wonderfully thick again after the slightly shorter books 5 and 6. It’s a bit of a breather and prelude to the upcoming excitement of Atheia and all the fantastic colouring that awaits in the final two volumes! Amazing job Jeff and Steve! It was worth the wait :)

    Comment by Brandon — January 24, 2008 @ 8:20 pm

  7. Hey I don’t know if anyone has this, but for the hard cover, the colors really good and the pages are smooth and stuff, but like on page 139 its smooth and the color of the sky is that nice yellow-tan, then on pages 140 – 141, the colors are very red and the sky is darker and the page actually feels dusty like but as weird as it may sound, the next page 142 is perfectly normal again from there on and the sky and color scheme is normal, and the page is smoothe again.
    Is that supposed to be like that?

    Comment by Marcus — January 24, 2008 @ 11:21 pm

  8. Yup, I noticed that too. If you hold the page at an angle to the light, you can see there’s a slightly different texture to the areas in color and the areas that are filled black. You can see that different colors reflect light to a different degree. Try it on the third panel on page 138, it’s especially obvious what I mean. I’m not sure why the actual feel is different on some pages and not others, but it’s something to do with the printing process, I suppose, the type of paper and the type of ink.

    Comment by Brandon — January 24, 2008 @ 11:36 pm

  9. The 138 was fine for me. Well its minor, so no big thing

    Comment by Marcus — January 25, 2008 @ 8:54 am

  10. Bone in colour is great!!

    I also realized that scholastic,s “dusty Pages”- the ones with a different texture are starting to show up in their graphic novels– almost every page of my Amulet ( by Kazu Kibuishi) is dusty!!!

    What’s wrong with Scolastic these days?!! the books are of much lower quality!!!

    Comment by Thom — January 25, 2008 @ 5:33 pm

  11. I got it last week and I’m still reading it again and again! I’ve started my own prequel series to the first bone book, out from Boneville, called the tales from Boneville. I’ve made two books already and sold them at my school earning about 65 dollars afterwards, allowing me to get a drawing table. now as i work on the 3rd one and get influence from ghost circles, i thank you Jeff smith, for you have inspired me to become a cartoonist.

    Comment by Malkiel Cabrera — January 25, 2008 @ 6:41 pm

  12. I got it last week and I’m still reading it again and again! I’ve made my own prequel series to the first bone book, out from Boneville, called the tales from Boneville. I’ve made two books already and sold them at my school earning about 65 dollars afterwards, allowing me to get a drawing table. now as i work on the 3rd one and get influence from ghost circles, i thank you Jeff smith, for you have inspired me to become a cartoonist.
    -Malkiel

    Comment by Mokong — January 25, 2008 @ 6:47 pm

  13. I’m ordering it out of the schoolastic catalougue. Looks good!

    Comment by Ben — January 25, 2008 @ 7:42 pm

  14. It looks amazing. It was great in b & W, so I can’t wait to see the color version!

    Comment by L_T_ — January 26, 2008 @ 3:35 pm

  15. I LOVE numbers one through six. I was walking in b&n(barnes and noble) a long while ago, and on the new shelf i saw the first bone book. it intrested me just seeing the cover, so i picked it up. I opened the book to see it was a comic (my favorite) I got hooked on, and had to figure out what was going to happen. the susspense has kept up through the series, and Ghost circles, i hope keeps up that susspense, and hopefully brings back bartleberry.

    Comment by bryce — January 26, 2008 @ 8:56 pm

  16. Hey i really loved your bone book 7 it was awesome i got it the first day it came out i read every bone book = Bone book 1,2,3,4,5,6 and now 7 i cannot wait till number 8 and u said u r working on it and i was wondering when will it come out can u plz contact me on my email address

    Comment by tomi owoeye — January 27, 2008 @ 4:13 pm

  17. Hi! I bought #7 two days ago for my 8 year old son Simon. He has been home sick with strep throat all week but he has been reading Bone to make him feel better. You should have seen his smile when I came home with #7! Now we are playing games and reading bios on the Scholastic webpage. We are all Bone, all the time!

    Thanks so much!!! (And we live in Cleveland–when are you coming here?)

    –Anne

    Comment by Anne — January 27, 2008 @ 7:01 pm

  18. I love Bone!! but honestly i prefer the black and white version.

    see you!

    Comment by joaquin rosado — January 28, 2008 @ 8:23 am

  19. I got Lucky! I found out at the last minute that Scholastics was having a 50% book fair this past week and I picked up all 7 books! Now I have all the B/W, the one volume, and almost the whole set of Color! Its a very different experience reading it in color. It’s beautiful, great job!

    Comment by Will Terrell — January 28, 2008 @ 8:31 pm

  20. this book is sweet.i own and read every single bone book you have in color.you said you are working on bone 8.if you can can u plz contact bme if u know when it will be coming out.i would be very greatful but other than that your books are an awesome adventure.

    Comment by eion curry — January 28, 2008 @ 10:27 pm

  21. Steve is just finishing up the color on book 8, The Treasure Hunters. I’ve seen it and it looks fantastic. It will come out this summer.

    Maybe I can get Steve to put up some sneak peek color pages from #8 on the blog.

    Comment by Jeff — January 29, 2008 @ 7:55 am

  22. Ha, wicked.
    From the Coloring Video 4 Steve has, there was one panel, it looked fantastic.
    Ohh Crown of Horns is going to be epic.
    Does photoshop count as graphic design because seriously this deserves like an award for Outstaning Achievement or something

    Comment by Marcus — January 29, 2008 @ 6:44 pm

  23. When I saw this in the schoolastic catalougue, I decided to order it right away.

    Comment by Sofian — January 31, 2008 @ 11:08 pm

  24. i really love ur books i have read #1 to #7 they are sooo cool and i cant w8 to get my habds on #8 treasure hunter!!!i bought all 7 books from costco for $6.00! so im going to try to order it for when its comes out as soon as possible.

    Comment by caydn — February 15, 2008 @ 5:32 pm

  25. i really love ur books i have read #1 to #7 they are sooo cool and i cant w8 to get my habds on #8 treasure hunter!!!i bought all 7 books from costco for $6.00! so im going to try to order it for when its comes out as soon as possible. i cant w8 to read the next book!

    Comment by caydn — February 15, 2008 @ 5:32 pm

  26. monk

    Comment by juess — March 4, 2008 @ 9:12 pm

  27. Hi,
    My son, 7 years old, loves all the Bone books. I’m just a bit worried if they’re appropriate for his age. Does anyone know anything about it? My son reads each book in just a few hours! After reading about 5 of them, he started to write his own chapter book!
    Cheers,
    Mojan

    Comment by Mojan — October 27, 2008 @ 9:45 pm

  28. Mojan, I’ll be honest with you. I didn’t write Bone for children, I wrote it for adults. That said, Scholastic and parents around the world think it is a safe children’s book. So what do I know? And I’ve been to many countries and seen a lot of 5 and 7 year olds reading and liking the books.

    Take a look at the books and see what you think. You can also visit Scholastic’s website: there is button to take you there at the top of this page.
    Good luck!

    Comment by Jeff — October 28, 2008 @ 3:05 pm

  29. love it

    Comment by ammar — January 3, 2009 @ 2:04 pm

  30. some one copied your books . but these books
    are amasing

    Comment by denan — March 27, 2009 @ 8:57 am

  31. FREAKIN’ AWESOME!!!!

    Comment by Twisted Inc. — August 4, 2009 @ 7:30 pm

  32. i really want that book i’ve read the first 6 in like 3 days (pretty good for me)

    Comment by willis — December 16, 2011 @ 6:46 pm

  33. omg i love these books they keep me busy in my english class everday :)

    Comment by max,joseph — March 5, 2012 @ 10:05 pm

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