Hi everybody, Tom here with another update on the exhibition that is only days away. Things are really starting to come together as you can see from the following pics.
Steve, Vijaya and Jeff waiting for the gallery space to open.
Vijaya admiring a Geo. Herriman original.
Jeff can't take his eyes off the E.C. Segar strip.
V & J with Fone Bone.
Jeff just noticed that the Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge page is signed!
The original art for the final cover of BONE, issue #55.
A double page spread from SHAZAM! The Monster Society of Evil.
The six page preview story from RASL.
Just outside the gallery, a huge mural that Jeff created is being hung one panel at a time using hydraulic lifts.
Jeff checks out the seam between panels.
The first two panels are up! Kathleen and I (Tom) stand next to the wall for scale.
Steve and Jeff chatting with Ohio State University President Gordon Gee.
Yesterday, Steve and I popped over to the Wexner Center to see how the gallery is coming along as they start hanging the art. The show opens May 10th, and things are starting to come together. It's called Jeff Smith: Bone and Beyond and has 75 original BONE pages as well as lots of original comics art from artists I love, like E.C. Segar, Walt Kelly (that's a POGO Sunday page I'm holding in the photo above), and George Herriman. This exhibition has been organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Cartoon Research Library, The Ohio State University. The curators are David Filipi and my long time friend Lucy Shelton Caswell.
Here Lucy and I marvel at a Thimble Theatre Popeye page.
Gary Trudeau originals.
We had a heck of a time finding a Carl Barks original comics page, but there it is on the left!
We're waiting on huge vinyl versions of Bone art to cover the walls before we hang everything.
A George Herriman original Sunday. Looking at his brush strokes and scratched out white spaces is like looking at the Holy Grail.
Steve checks out the exhibit catalog which has essays by Scott McCloud and Neil Gaiman. We'll show you more of that in another post.
Here's a link to the Wexner's official web page, and on it is a short, but fancy HD film-o-mercial they made to promote the event.
Click here to see the Wexner Bone and Beyond film.
We are also moving our site to a new server, so please excuse any hiccups with Boneville for the next few days!
Posted by Tom
The current issue of Entertainment Weekly (April 11th) on newstands now, has a review of RASL #1.
Here's a quote:
"A rollicking sci-fi caper and promising follow-up to Smith's all-ages masterpiece Bone, albeit for older fans. Grade: A"
Read the rest of the article here.
Hi everybody! Tom here, the newest addition to the Cartoon Books family. Jeff will still be posting regularly, but in between, I'll be posting CB, Bone, & RASL related blogs and will try to answer all of your questions. We have a lot of exciting things going on here and I can't wait to hear your comments.
So, for my first entry…Did you know that BONE colorist Steve Hamaker, is a BONE-ified writer/cartoonist himself? You can see his latest adventure of his characters Fish-n-Chips in Flight Explorer Volume 1. Go out and get your copy today! Here are a few teaser panels to get your appetite goin. Congrats Steve!
Buy Flight Explorer at Amazon.com
One of the coolest and most original web comics on the internet is Kazu Kibuishi's "Copper". Kazu is a friend of the Cartoon Books family, so we are extremely happy to have another of his comics in the Scholastic graphic novel library!
Amulet seems to be doing very well, and I imagine kids of all ages are going to fall in love with Copper as well. Grats to our pal Kazu!
