Coming in 2011…One Volume Edition in Full Color
The technology has finally caught up! Through a combination of sewing and glue, we can make a nearly 1400 page color One Volume Edition that lays flat when open!
2011 will be the 20th anniversary of Bone #1, and one of the things we’re doing to celebrate will be putting together the BONE: 20th Anniversary Full Color One Volume Edition. It’s the whole thing in a beautiful hardback book and will include extras. The dimensions: 9 1/4″ x 7″ & the spine is 3″ (very similar to the current black & white paperback) and comes in a slipcase.
More details to come…
YES!!! I’ve been waiting for this!
Comment by VS Romero — December 22, 2010 @ 12:17 pm
This thing will make DC’s absolutes look like childs play.
Comment by Derek — December 22, 2010 @ 12:26 pm
Wow – that is awesome!
Comment by Mr. Phil Jackson — December 22, 2010 @ 12:30 pm
Oh god, I want this so much! ;A;
How much will it cost me?
Comment by Fieryone — December 22, 2010 @ 12:43 pm
Ohohoh! I can’t wait for this! I’d love to have both the full color and the black and white versions. I can’t really decide what’s my favorite… so I must have both! I can’t wait to get my greasy little hands on one of those bad-boys!
I can hardly believe BONE has been around for 20 years! Too bad I only discovered it this summer. Better late than never, right? I’m just so glad I found it at all. It’s up there with Star Wars on my list of favorite things!
You’ve become one of my cartoon-creator role-models, Jeff! Thank you SO MUCH for that!
Comment by Olivia — December 22, 2010 @ 12:51 pm
[...] technology has finally caught up!” Smith posted on the Bone site. “Through a combination of sewing and glue, we can make a nearly 1400 page color One Volume [...]
Pingback by Full-color Bone One Volume Edition coming in 2011 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment — December 22, 2010 @ 1:02 pm
I’ve been picking up the Scholastic color volumes as they appeared, but I still would love a permanent edition like this one…very nice!
Are there any plans for a signed edition?
Comment by cognitive dissident — December 22, 2010 @ 1:18 pm
YES! YES! Jesus, Mary, and Joseph YES!!
Comment by Marcus Martinez — December 22, 2010 @ 1:39 pm
Now I can truly say, “Yes, Virgina, there is a Santa Claus!”
Comment by Joe Heffernan — December 22, 2010 @ 2:10 pm
Count me in! Although I slightly prefer the black and white version I’ve enjoyed my colour books and will be picking this up Day 1.
Comment by David Tobin — December 22, 2010 @ 4:45 pm
You’ve got me excited! I’m looking forward to it!
Comment by James — December 22, 2010 @ 4:48 pm
Oooo I would LOVE this, my poor paperback omnibus is falling apart ;_;
Comment by Bluus — December 22, 2010 @ 5:46 pm
[...] Vet redan nu vad som kommer ruinera mig nästa år: http://www.boneville.com/2010/12/22/coming-in-2011-one-volume-edition-in-full-color/ [...]
Pingback by PORR!!! « Kristofer Svensson — December 22, 2010 @ 8:31 pm
I know what I want for Christmas next year…
Comment by Lisa — December 22, 2010 @ 11:09 pm
I’m not really interested in the colored version, but I would buy a slipcased single volume hardcover in the original black and white in a heartbeat.
Comment by John Snow — December 23, 2010 @ 2:07 am
It’s Wonderfull!!!
Comment by Camarada F. Dark — December 23, 2010 @ 11:03 am
Jeff, do you have an ISBN?
Big fan,
Michael
Comment by Michael M — December 23, 2010 @ 1:52 pm
ISBN = 978-1-888963-18-2
but I don’t think it is in the system yet.
v
Comment by Vijaya — December 23, 2010 @ 3:22 pm
I’m so happy
Comment by Brandon Klassen — December 24, 2010 @ 10:17 pm
You and me BOTH, Bradon!
Comment by Marcus Martinez — December 25, 2010 @ 5:21 am
Great! I’ll fight to get one!
smoky ciao from Italy
smok!
Comment by smoky man — December 25, 2010 @ 4:01 pm
I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR SUCH A LONG TIME!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! YAY
Comment by Dhani — December 26, 2010 @ 3:41 am
I wish I could buy one of them, they are soooo cool
Comment by Cody — December 26, 2010 @ 10:04 am
[...] stesso Jeff Smith si è preoccupato di annunciare al pubblico questa ristampa completa del suo capolavoro. L’autore, sul suo portale, ha ringraziato la [...]
Pingback by Bone – ecco il One Volume Edition in lingua originale — December 26, 2010 @ 2:31 pm
Awesome!!! I read the series in color from scholastic but i wanted all the books in color too with out buying all 10 books
One question though how much is it?
Comment by Ryan — December 26, 2010 @ 8:15 pm
[...] fans de Bone estamos de enhorabuena. Desde el blog de Boneville.com se ha anunciado una edición especial a color en un único volumen de 1400 páginas. Aún no se [...]
Pingback by Edición Omnibus a color de Bone para 2011 — December 27, 2010 @ 9:31 am
Awesome!! Im so getting, finished reading the series for atleast the 14th time today!!! I always get so emotional at the end, I wish the Bone cousins just decided to stay with Thorn and Grandma
Comment by Denis — December 27, 2010 @ 8:26 pm
Nice!!! Will there be a signed edition as well?
Comment by Gary — December 28, 2010 @ 2:27 am
OMG! I love bone! I have got 1 volume addition in black and white!!!!! SSOOO CCCCOOLLLLL
Comment by Madeline — December 28, 2010 @ 10:58 am
[...] From the Cartoon Books website: The technology has finally caught up! Through a combination of sewing and glue, we can make a nearly 1400 page color One Volume Edition that lays flat when open! 2011 will be the 20th anniversary of Bone #1, and one of the things we’re doing to celebrate will be putting together the BONE: 20th Anniversary Full Color One Volume Edition. It’s the whole thing in a beautiful hardback book and will include extras. The dimensions: 9 1/4″ x 7″ & the spine is 3″ (very similar to the current black & white paperback) and comes in a slipcase. [...]
Pingback by One Big BONE, In Color | Badass Digest — December 28, 2010 @ 3:44 pm
Can’t wait!
Comment by Steve Weiner — December 29, 2010 @ 11:21 am
It looks absolutely amazing…I MUST HAVE IT!!!
Comment by William Lim — December 30, 2010 @ 6:07 am
This is fantastic news. Will there be a signed limited hardcover similar to the B&W edition?
Comment by ComicDiva89 — December 30, 2010 @ 1:18 pm
One word, four letters…COOL!
Comment by John — December 31, 2010 @ 11:15 pm
I remember suggesting this a few years ago and getting shot down on the old messageboard.
well, I TOLD YOU SO!
Comment by edc — January 1, 2011 @ 1:43 am
I REALLY want to get this!!! I love BONE! When does it come out? Happy New Year!!!
Comment by Derick — January 1, 2011 @ 8:38 am
around when will it come out?!??! Im going crazy! bone is my favorite series ever, I only own the first five, and Im going to wait now until this one vol. edition will come out! :]
Comment by ben — January 1, 2011 @ 10:29 pm
I am wondering as everyone else…WHEN?
Comment by Kamil — January 3, 2011 @ 9:00 am
Put me down for one. This is droid I’m looking for!
Comment by Bill Peschel — January 3, 2011 @ 11:34 am
Can’t wait! Just hope the box/cover doesn’t use too much of the Scholastic cover art. The proportions and characters sometimes look off to me.
Nothin’ personal, they just aren’t my favourite as Bone art goes, though the colouring inside their pages is of course fantastic.
Comment by Sean — January 3, 2011 @ 7:08 pm
Thanks for all these great comments, everyone! Very encouraging! Looking forward to sharing more details soon.
Comment by Jeff — January 4, 2011 @ 1:55 pm
Is it going to be a Scholastic book or a Cartoon Books book? Will we be able to pre-order it from Boneville.com? What are the “extras” going to be!
Actually, I have the opposite opinion of Sean (sorry man!) – I LOVE the mockup of the slipcase (black) and book (blue) using the Scholastic art!
I’ve wanted a hardcover one volume ever since I discovered there was a B&W1VHC and I missed it. The fact that it’s going to be the colour edition I’ve been waiting for, for a long time, is icing on the cake! I’m SO stoked! Hurrah for 2011 and many, many celebrations for Bone’s 20th anniversary!
Now we just need a few more hints as to what the 20th anniversary celebrations will include… like TALES FROM THE LANTERN, okay?!
Comment by Brandon Klassen — January 4, 2011 @ 10:07 pm
As someone who loves Bone and has read the whole series – but doesn’t have every issue – and wanting to buy the one-volume pack… what would everyone recommend? Should I get the black/white version or the color version? Do you think the color version adds or detracts from the original black/white work? I guess it would be good to have both versions but as a college student with limited means I prefer getting just one
Comment by Erik — January 7, 2011 @ 12:36 pm
As someone who bought the original floppies, then bought the B&W hardcovers just cause they looked nice on the shelves
. I was hesitating buying the Color Hardcovers as they were of smaller format and my eyes aren’t what they used to be to read small text. (I DID buy the Rose color HC, though).
The colors in the books I thumbed thru were very nice, but I just couldn’t justify buying a 3rd version of books/stories I’d already read/owned.
However I WILL absolutely be getting this one-volume color edition and proudly be displaying it in the living room book shelf.
The only questions remaining, and already posed by other people here, is how much and when? When? WHEN!?
Comment by RawShark — January 8, 2011 @ 2:54 pm
and at the risk of repeating myself… WHEN!?!?!?!
Comment by RawShark — January 8, 2011 @ 2:56 pm
Erik – I’d say get the upcoming Color One Volume, for one reason – it’s in hardcover, and you can’t get the original One Volume B&W in hardcover anymore
But if you ask me to choose which is “better” or which is more enjoyable, color or B&W, it’s impossible, because Jeff’s art is beautiful and striking in B&W and stands completely on its own, but Steve Hamaker’s coloring is superb and wonderful – it makes it a different but equally enjoyable experience.
Comment by Brandon Klassen — January 10, 2011 @ 5:05 pm
[...] [...]
Pingback by Review: Bone: One Volume Edition | Trade Reading Order — January 10, 2011 @ 6:18 pm
Thanks Brandon – your hardcover argument has won me over to the color version
Though I agree that Jeff’s B&W art is very well done as well.
Comment by Erik — January 11, 2011 @ 10:04 pm
Looks cool. I probably get it. I wish it was two books in a slipcase instead of one, like Fantagraphics’ Usagi Yojimbo Special Edition. I also wish it featured the material from the OOP Thorn: Tales From the Lantern as extras and maybe the material from Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails: The Adventures of Big Johnson Bone, Frontier Hero that wasn’t reprinted Bone: Tall Tales. Pretty pretty please, Jeff Smith?
Comment by John Pannozzi — January 18, 2011 @ 2:57 pm
[...] you gotta check out Bone: The One Volume Edition – Full Color & Hardcover. Filed under: News Comment [...]
Pingback by The Velona Grove » Blog Archive » Bone One Volume Edition, Full Color & Hardcover! — January 19, 2011 @ 4:15 am
That’s awesome… can’t wait to see it in person.
Comment by Andy Jewett — January 27, 2011 @ 12:50 pm
I’ve been holding off on the current one volume Bone for exactly this! Looking forward to it!
Comment by Gill — January 30, 2011 @ 12:08 pm
Any updates on this?
Comment by VS Romero — February 16, 2011 @ 3:36 pm
This was published on the forbiddenplanet.co.uk website :-
Finally, the wait is over! The 20th Anniversary Full Color One Volume Collector’s Box Set starts with the most requested Bone item of all time: all 1344 full colour pages of the hugely popular, award-winning Bone in a single volume. This hardcover is adorned with colourful foil stamps and art work and includes a satin ribbon bookmark.
This full-colour volume comes in a beautiful, illustrated red box with a magnetic clasp, filled to the brim with limited collectibles such as a signed and numbered art print, a 22k gold plated Bone coin, pewter figures of the three Bone cousins, a miniature facsimile of the Bone #1 comic book in B&W, a Bone cover gallery, a new essay by Jeff Smith called “Twenty Years with Bone,” an illustrated timeline, and the award-winning feature length documentary DVD Jeff Smith, Bone, and the Changing Face of Comics.
This edition will be signed and limited to only 2,000 copies. This is a book so big, we’ll plant a tree for every one we sell!
Cartoon Books, hardback, 1344 pages, published May 2011
The reatil price listed is….wait for it….£250 !!! but the pre-order price is £167.50 – coming in May !!! so start saving !!!
Comment by Tom — February 24, 2011 @ 3:38 pm
I also found this: http://talesofwonder.com/product-exec/product_id/65301/affiliate_id/5/keyword/01.
But I’m hoping Amazon gets it.
Comment by VS Romero — February 25, 2011 @ 11:53 am
Yes! Pre-ordered!
http://www.tfaw.com/Profile/Bone-One-Vol.-Color-Ed-Sgn-HC-20th-Ann-Box-Set___381855
Comment by VS Romero — February 25, 2011 @ 1:48 pm