Ken Mills, the director of the Bone documentary, The Cartoonist, has uploaded a short interview with Harvey Pekar on YouTube. It covers his friendship with Crumb, and Harvey’s views on the potential of comics.

THE comics EVENT of the year is finally here! And to celebrate, starting Wednesday July 21st, our store is having a signature sale!

If you can’t make it to the show, don’t worry. Any BOOK purchase that is made in the boneville.com store will be signed by Jeff! The sale will continue until the end of the month. All orders will start to ship on Wednesday July 28th.

Another thing to be thankful for… NO LINES TO WAIT IN!

Hi everybody! Comic Con is upon is!

Here is the SDCC schedule (we will try to keep)…

Thursday, July 22nd

Jeff Smith Spotlight Panel at 10am-11am in room 5AB

Jeff will be signing at the Cartoon Books booth # 2109 from 1:00pm – 3:00pm

Friday, July 23rd

Jeff and Tom Sniegoski (TALL TALES) will be signing at the Cartoon Books booth # 2109 from 1:00pm – 3:00pm

Jeff will be signing at the Cartoon Books booth # 2109 from 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Saturday, July 24th

Jeff will be signing at the Cartoon Books booth # 2109 from 11:30am – 1:30pm

Jeff will be signing at the Cartoon Books booth # 2109 from 4:30pm – 6:30pm

Sunday, July 25th

Jeff will be signing at the Cartoon Books booth # 2109 from 12:00pm – 1:30pm

IDW Digital Panel at 2pm-3pm in room 25ABC

We’ll be debuting the RASL Pocket Book One (shown above) at the show, as well as the new BONE book –BONE: Tall Tales. (we’ll have softcovers at the booth, Tall Tales hardcover books will be available in our store in the near future.

RASL 8 will also be hot off the press….

Our Convention Specials include special pricing on the Large Fone Bone Plush and an extremely limited (only 30 copies) RASL SDCC full color print!

Hope to see you there!

The above photo is from Cleveland.com, where they are reporting that Harvey Pekar died yesterday in the early morning.

I didn’t know Harvey well, having only met him a couple of times, but he is unforgettable, and his work was very important to me. As Tom Spurgeon at The Comics Reporter points out, Harvey was a crucial figure in the transition from underground comics to the current alt/indie/self-publishing scene that we have today. A generation-spanning group of cartoonists illustrated his unique, slice-of-life/auto-bio comics stories, from R. Crumb to Dean Haspiel. Most of Pekar’s work appeared in his self-published American Splendor comic book.  His collected stories also opened doors for graphic novels by major publishers.

His comics grew on me over the years, as I got to know his personality, and as I came to appreciate his approach and dedication to the art form.

Harvey was supportive of other artists, and visited me at the opening of my exhibition back in 2008, and graciously agreed to appear in a documentary that was made about BONE and self-publishing the following year. We Ohio boys stick together.

He was one of a kind.

Harvey at the opening of the BONE exhibit at the Wexner in Columbus

A drawing I made as part of a surprise for Harvey’s 70th birthday last year

Hi everybody, Tom here. It’s great being in charge of the fan letters! I run across some fun and interesting ones. Keep em coming! Above and below are pics of a lucky 17 year old named Will and his Bday cake! Awesome job and thanks for sharing. Too bad you can’t mail a cake!

Sean wrote a great letter and sent in some pics that his 7 year old niece has drawn after he introduced her to the BONE books.

For you crochet buffs out there, Here is a great site that you can get a pattern to make your own Fone Bone! Great job Amber!

Well thats it for now, Only two more weeks til San Diego Comic Con! We are really looking forward to that, so if you’re going, be sure to come say Hi!