Hey everybody! Tom G. again.

BONE: Tall Tales, the new full color BONE graphic novel shipped this week!  Tall Tales is just what it sounds like, Smiley Bone telling Boneville tall tales to three Bone Scouts named Ringo, Bingo, and Todd.  It has new stories, and a couple of older ones that have never been published in glorious Steve Hamaker color. We had a few copies with us in San Diego at Comic-Con, and it seemed like everybody loved them. Above is a picture of the signing Tom & Jeff  had on Friday morning of the show – - it was slammed!

Here’s a link to a CBR interview with Tom Sniegowski that was posted last night. Tom talks about working with Jeff and Vijaya on both Tall Tales and the upcoming prose books BONE: Quest for the Spark.  It’s a fun interview that had me laughing.  It sheds light on a lot of Tom & Jeff’s working habits – - even for Jeff!

Comic Book Resources also covered Jeff’s spotlight panel at Comic Con. You can read that here.

Thanks to Garrett Chin and Steve for some great shots of Tom and Jeff at their booth signing on Friday, July 23rd.

A third interview featuring colorist, Steve Hamaker, will be up later this week.

RASL 8 hit stores while we were in San Diego attending Comic-Con. Jeff asked me to post a few pages from the “spooky girl” issue! So here they are! Click on the images to enlarge.

Want to read more? Of course you do! So head on over to your local comic book store or here, to go to ours!

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, 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!

Hi everybody. Tom again. I want to make the official announcement about Facebook. Jeff’s page is called The OFFICIAL Jeff Smith page. If you’re on Facebook, go ahead and “like” him! Thanks Jenny O for the suggestion.

WOW! Two blogs in one day! Jeff and Steve have completed the cover image for RASL 9 and here it is! Enjoy!

The cover features Nikola Tesla, and the catalog description reads:

“More Tesla this time out! The infamous scientist turns his back on the world that shunned him, and in his final, lonely days spends more time in the company of pigeons than with humans. Tesla’s descent into madness parallels RASL’s search for clues to the Multi-verse!”

Popular Philly podcast–Fictional Frontiers–caught up with Jeff at April’s C2E2 show in Chicago! Check out what Sohaib and Jeff had to say by clicking here!

Here are a few BONE/RASL related links from around the web:

Julian, a student in Mrs. Doran’s class, wrote a book report on his teacher’s blog site. Dig the photo (above) that goes with it.  - – I think that’s supposed to be me!

Julian’s blog can be read here! Keep reading, Julian!

Avish Parashar, a motivational speaker watched The Cartoonist documentary on his local PBS channel recently and was motivated. You can read Avish’s comments here!

RASL vols. 1 & 2 are reviewed by the Portland Mercury and you can read that here.

Also, letterer extraordinaire, and a cartoonist  himself, Todd Klein gives RASL vol. 2 a review on his site.

This is awesome; especially if you’re from Columbus. Columbus through Buffalo eyes. A journalist from Buffalo, NY, that is! An out of stater falls for Columbus, loves the Cartoon Research Library and in the last paragraph, mentions Old Man’s Cave and Bone. This’ll make anyone want to visit Columbus!
Her article for the Buffalo News can be found here.

And last but not least, from Spain comes this awesome drawing from a reader I met at the Barcelona Festival.

He wrote about the signing on his blog. I love the drawing, Andre!

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!

As mentioned in the letters page of RASL #7, I have to draw the covers many months in advance in order to appear in the Diamond Preview catalog. Most of the time, I know what to put on the cover, since the plots are pretty much sketched out. But when it came time for the cover of #8, I wasn’t quite sure how far into the story I’d be; so I put out  a generic cover of Rasl exchanging punches with Sal as a place holder.

Now the real cover image is ready, and it features the spooky little girl who turns up around Rasl without warning (the pencils are below).

The little girl has generated a lot of mail from readers and in RASL #8 she begins to take on a larger role in Rob’s life