See you at Comic-Con!
We are San Diego bound! Come by the Cartoon Books booth 2109 and check out what fun things we have for the show! Check out Jeff’s appearance schedule here!
We will be easy to find right next to our friends at Abstract Studios and across the aisle from DC Comics.
-We’ll have the debut of Little Mouse at our booth during a signing on Friday
-We are doing joint limited edition prints with Terry Moore
-We’re debuting the Limited Edition RASL Hardcover
-Friday night screening for the Jeff Smith Documentary
Oh man, I wish I was there! Hope you and Abstract have the best con ever! Dang it limited edition prints along with Terry? Any chance if you have any left after the show you’ll sell them online? I’m saving up for my Boneville.com purchases when you get back and add new goodies to the store! 2 days until the secret announcement!
Comment by Brandon Klassen — July 21, 2009 @ 12:08 pm
Ooooh boy.
Comment by Marcus — July 21, 2009 @ 5:44 pm
Hey Brandon, your wish came true, the hardcover is in the store right now!
Comment by Marcus — July 21, 2009 @ 5:46 pm
ooh good! Right next to DC comics that means my sister will be able to find you real easy since she’s a DC fan. I sent my Bone b&w vol 1 with her when she was home last month in the hopes she could have you sign and maybe draw a sketch for me
Here’s hoping she’ll get a chance. Hope you guys have lots of fun at comic-con!
Comment by Jeanette — July 21, 2009 @ 5:46 pm
Heh nope Marcus I’m waiting for the DVD
I got the hardcover from my local comic shop!
Comment by Brandon Klassen — July 21, 2009 @ 7:10 pm
Hey Jeff! I just wanted to write that your artwork in the Bone series inspire me to continue pursuing to be a professional artist just like you. I read your comic when I was about 10 yrs. old in a few of the Disney Adventures Books. This was back in 1999. One day I was at a Borders this year(I’m 20 now) and I hadn’t seen Bone since I was like I said really young and there it was a novel series and I was thinking good for him. It’s really fun,adventerous and always keeps me on edge when I read it. Your style is extremely creative and unique! Thanks for the great stories and illustrations!
Comment by Tameisha — July 22, 2009 @ 10:37 am
I hadn’t realized that “Little Mouse” was your book! I had seen it on amazon a few months ago and thought it looks good! Yay that’s so cool!
Comment by Jeanette — July 22, 2009 @ 2:33 pm
i got and read little mouse get ready yesterday and that was one hilarious book, from the start to the end it made me smile. will be reading it to the boys tonight.
also read the announcement from scholastic, aa looking forward to the new bone stories. congratulations!
Comment by ryan — July 23, 2009 @ 10:59 am
Just read about the new Bone trilogy coming our way. Great to see you back in action with the Bones again.
Comment by David Tobin — July 23, 2009 @ 11:41 am
Great news about a new Bone Trilogy : Quest for the Spark. I’m really looking forward to this.
YAY !!!
Comment by BennyB — July 23, 2009 @ 3:14 pm
4 new books?
Is this the after math of Bone? Or just short stories kind of thing?
I might be the only one to admit it’s a little…off-putting.
Comment by Marcus — July 23, 2009 @ 4:11 pm
What is quest for the Spark?
Comment by Marcus — July 23, 2009 @ 4:11 pm
hey jeff, a friend of mine wants to pick up a copy of Bone 1 volume in Norwegian, does that exist? If so, where should I look for it?
Comment by joe — July 23, 2009 @ 6:47 pm
New Bone stories? *Fantastic* news!
Comment by Jonathan — July 23, 2009 @ 10:35 pm
I’m wondering if the first book, Tall Tales, will be a repackaging of Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails? Have we already heard anything about SSRT? (The wording is interesting, note STORIES plural and the author/artist attribution: “written by Jeff Smith and Tom Sniegoski, and illustrated by Jeff Smith, featuring new art and stories with favorite BONE characters.”) If it was kind of an “annual,” a collection of new stories, that’d be awesome. If it was SSRT, coloured by Hamaker, that’d also be awesome. And then the trilogy… I’ll admit Quest for the Spark sounds cool (although “Quest” almost sounds a bit contrived for Jeff). It’s being marketed as a trilogy which is an interesting… word choice… since it’s being released by Scholastic, and with the release schedule, I’m only guessing that each volume will be roughly the same # of pages as one of the original Bone collections. It really is key to me that Jeff is drawing it… I would even happier if Jeff was writing it, but it does say that he’ll be supervising the story by Sniegoski and I would also assume that the story has somewhat originated from Jeff. There’s no mention of Steve, but I can’t imagine him NOT being involved. I’m sure there’s plenty more details to come that will answer many questions. I know that Jeff certainly wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t the quality, ideas and the way he wanted, so this is definitely very exciting news!
The press release: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=22164
Comment by Brandon Klassen — July 24, 2009 @ 1:59 am
Feels a little bit like selling out.
Comment by Marcus — July 24, 2009 @ 2:26 am
Tall Tales is a repackaging of Stupid, Stupid, Rat-Tailes. A major repackaging with new stories by me, and new Johnson Bone stories by Tom Snigoski.
The official press release from Scholastic is a little unclear,but I think they were aiming more at their traditional audience of kids and new Bone readers who probably have never heard of SSRT.
I’ll put up a post to help explain.
Settle down, Marcus. These aren’t official sequels, they’re just for fun!
Comment by Jeff — July 24, 2009 @ 12:58 pm
Hey check this out, I don’t ever remember seeing this interview, or maybe I just missed it. It’s from April. Check out the second last question. Very interesting!
http://www.examiner.com/x-5140-Portland-Indie-Film-Examiner~y2009m4d22-A-little-deviation-Jeff-Smith-creator-of-Bone-interview
It sounds like he’s describing Tall Tales? But I’m confused about what was previously published as one-shots? There’s Greed, The Powers That Be, maybe the Bone action figure mini-comics, but none of those were strictly PUBLISHED as ONE-SHOTS. Then there’s possibly SSRT, and the new stories Jeff mentions in the interview? I’m assuming Smiley “tell[ing] stories around the campfire” is a frame for the various comics that will be included in the collection, and of course that we still won’t see Boneville. Although over here (http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=15613), Jeff says “I’m going to try and avoid the temptation to do a Boneville story… But I might.”
Hmmm, now that that the announcement is made, I can’t wait for more details!
Comment by Brandon Klassen — July 24, 2009 @ 12:58 pm
Alright, that’s cool =)
Comment by Marcus — July 24, 2009 @ 11:37 pm
Hi Jeff! I was in your drawing panel yesterday on Comic-Con. It was very interesting! I was a bit disappointed we couldn’t see the powerpoint about coloring Bone. Do you think you could put it online on Slideshare.com or here in your site? Thank you!
Comment by Nelly — July 26, 2009 @ 12:04 pm
I know what you mean Marcus. It makes us long time fans feel a little put out. But as long as there is a b&w printing I think it may be alright.
Anyhoo my sister is so cool she just called from comic-con and said that Jeff just signed and sketched a drawing in my b& w Out of Boneville vol 1! and the new dvd! Ah she is so awesome!
Say though she made a mistake, Jeff she told you that I had all of the color vols and I only have the first. woops lol.
I may eventually get the rest in color. But I’m still hung up on the computer coloring. After falling in love with the look and hand colored covers of each issue and Disney Adventures releases it just isn’t the same. :/ Though I prefer the old b/w’s anyway since that was the way it was meant to be. And the readers imagination fills in the color that way
Congrats on the new Bone projects! I hope this means we’ll see more of our familar trio in the future along with more stories about Rose!
Comment by Jeanette — July 26, 2009 @ 4:06 pm