See you in Chicago; also more news that parallel universes are – -gulp – - real!
RASL 2: The Fire of St. George ships to comic book stores today, and I’m packing my bags for C2E2 this weekend. The staff at Cartoon Books is on the way over to the house to have a final scheduling meeting. It’s exciting! I haven’t been to a comic convention in Chicago in 10 years, and I can’t wait to see everyone at the show! On Saturday, I have a spotlight panel at 1:45 in room E353. Should be fun, it will include a reading as well as a look at some of the new BONE: Tall Tales stories. Then I run over to room # E271A to introduce the BONE documentary The Cartoonist at 3:00. After that, I’ll be at the Cartoon Books booth (#550) for most of the rest of the day. I’m on an Indie comics panel on Sunday at 1:15 in room #E450. Stop by! We have some fun new things at this show, including a special BONE pin, and the new RASL book collection hot off the press, The Fire of St. George (we’ll also have the first book, RASL: The Drift, of course)!
Speaking of RASL, the parallel universe science I based it on is cutting edge, but I was surprised that there was a new study released that seems to prove the existance of parallel universes!
From the news article: “The strange discovery by quantum physicists at the University of California Santa Barbara means that an object you can see in front of you may exist simultaneously in a parallel universe…”
We posted a different study last week that ran on National Geographic’s site suggesting the same thing:
“…researchers made the controversial suggestion that the clusters are being tugged on by the gravity of matter outside the known universe. —which in turn hints that our universe is part of something larger: a multiverse.”
Crazy! You read it here first!
Update 4/15/10: The Chicago Tribune is running a profile/Q&A with me as part of its coverage of the C2E2 convention.
Come by the booth this weekend, say hi, and get your RASL on!
Hmm…maybe I should go to this C2E2 too…But I’m too young to go anywhere on my own. But it’s so close! Chicago! Maybe I can convince my mom.
The new Bone books sound very exciting~ But…I haven’t read RASL before…the covers themselves make me a bit unsure. I wonder if it’ll surprise me like Bone did…I was surprised by the contents as the story carried on. But I wanted to keep reading and read the entire series in one day~
I’ll consider RASL, but for now, I await more Bone!
Comment by Olivia — April 14, 2010 @ 6:30 pm
Hey Jeff, I just got my copy of the Fire of St. George today and it is great. I know it says it was supposed to come out on the 16th, but my dealer got it in. I like it and I am looking forward to another a hard cover release like the first book had. Keep it up and I hope to see you around sometime. Are you going to be at APE this year? If so then I will definitely see you there. Have fun in Chicago!
Comment by William Hoffknecht — April 14, 2010 @ 9:37 pm
C2E2 should be a lot of fun, I’m looking forward to it. Will Jeff be around the Cartoon Books booth on Friday at all, or just on Saturday and Sunday? Also, I’m curious if there is a version of the new Rasl collection similar to the signed/numbered hardcover of The Drift?
Comment by Adam — April 15, 2010 @ 7:47 am
Olivia,
I don’t know how old you are, but RASL is a more adult book than BONE. It’s not worse than what you can see on a mature TV show these days, but I would trust your instinct about the covers and wait a couple of years.
Comment by Jeff — April 15, 2010 @ 8:57 am
William,
Fantastic, thanks. I forgot to mention that The Fire of St. George is shipping this week to comic book stores!
I’ll add that to the blog.
Comment by Jeff — April 15, 2010 @ 9:01 am
i think ill be maybe reading rasl i dont think im old enogh to read it jeff im 10 is that old enogh jeff?
Comment by shane — April 15, 2010 @ 9:03 am
i read bone books all the time i finsh all of the books in 1 month i don’t now about rasl yet
Comment by shane — April 15, 2010 @ 9:06 am
[...] Jeff Smith and Cartoon Books will have a special Bone pin at their booth, as well as copies of the second RASL collection. [...]
Pingback by C2E2 | CBLDF, Beanworld and more | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment — April 15, 2010 @ 1:27 pm
Wow… I read all the article, but I’ve gotta admit they kinda blew my mind! Relativity already does this a bit, so I shouldn’t have been surprised. Now I just need to figure out if any of this can help explain what’s happening on LOST!
Also, Jeff – Kudos for encouraging young readers to wait on RASL.
And, young readers, kudos for enquiring. Some things should be enjoyed (and will be MORE enjoyed) after you’ve let yourselves find out more about yourselves and establish who you want to be and who you are
Comment by Will Phillips — April 16, 2010 @ 12:24 pm
um.. this is regarding something else altogether, will ther be a bone all in one book in COLOUR coming out soon?
Comment by Dhani — April 17, 2010 @ 5:16 am
Hey Jeff, it was awesome meeting you dude!
Loved The Fire of St. George, can’t wait for Issue 8!
Peace.
Comment by Marcus — April 21, 2010 @ 12:44 pm
I just got RASL book 2 and man! awsome stuff.
I find it incredible that Jeff’s style and talents keeps on expanding and getting more sophisticated. I really didn’t think it was possible. Kudos, man. Fantastic book.
Comment by Avri — April 23, 2010 @ 8:54 am
Will there be a RASL book 2 hardcover?
Best,
Tim
Comment by timothycat — April 23, 2010 @ 1:39 pm
Mr. Smith, I know the hardcover edition of RASL, Volume 1 was published later than the paperback edition.
Any set date for the Volume 2 hardcover?
Comment by Torsten Adair — April 29, 2010 @ 10:52 am
Cant wait. Just got an e-mail saying Rasl 2 has been sent… Hope we have some not-too-far-out stuff.
Comment by Antti M — May 7, 2010 @ 7:50 am