by cartoon-books | Oct 3, 2014
Not a phone! Not a Fone Bone! It’s a wearable stereo! 1979’s answer to listening to music ‘hands-free’ this device is worn over the shoulders, sends vibrations through your entire body and is supposed to offer an experience as if you were sitting in front of...
by cartoon-books | Oct 3, 2014
Phil Jimenez is an American comic book artist and writer, known for his work on Wonder Woman, Infinite Crisis, Teen Titans, and the New X-Men. Almost 20 years ago, Phil gave a much needed makeover to Aqualad, in his miniseries Tempest. He also teaches a life-drawing...
by cartoon-books | Oct 2, 2014
On Thursday October 30th, The Billy Ireland Museum will be launching their Fall exhibit, celebrating the legacy of the late Will Eisner. A public reception will be open from 6:00pm-7:30pm, followed by a discussion featuring Jeff as the speaker, who will discuss...
by cartoon-books | Sep 30, 2014
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by cartoon-books | Sep 30, 2014
The Lakes Festival, taking place in Kendal England, will have Jeff as a Special Guest of this years show! The Lakes Festival begins on October 17th and runs through October 19th; Jeff will be doing a few events and signings: Saturday October 18th Brewery Arts...
by cartoon-books | Sep 29, 2014
Closing out Banned Books week on Saturday, we missed this post from Entertainment Weekly: The Cover up: 10 essential banned and challenged graphic novels:http://shelf-life.ew.com/2014/09/21/banned-books-week-graphic-novels/
by cartoon-books | Sep 27, 2014
Check out this week’s happenings! The Fall: The first Day of Autumn The Throwback: Paul Pope gift to Jeff Smith in 2000 The Funny: Keeping up with the Boneses The Fact: Scholastic Bone Games The Appearance: Nikola Tesla TIME Magazine in 1931The Answers: Tuki...
by cartoon-books | Sep 26, 2014
Closing out Banned Books Week, Amazon’s Kindle merchandising team put out their weekly comics newsletter, which features Banned Books, including BONE....
by cartoon-books | Sep 26, 2014
Banned Books Week continues! Jeff was invited to do a Guest Blog for the Huffington Post this week-take a look!http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffsmith/comics-on-the-most-banned_b_5870106.html?utm_hp_ref=books
by cartoon-books | Sep 26, 2014
Judd Winick might best be remembered from MTV’s ‘The Real World’ shot in San Francisco in 1993. But Judd is an established cartoonist in his own right, having worked on projects for Image Comics, Oni Press, DC Comics, Marvel, Vertigo as well as his own independent...
by cartoon-books | Sep 25, 2014
Jeff’s Reading Rainbow blog is the #1 feature on GalleyCat! Very nice! #Bannedbookshttp://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/
by cartoon-books | Sep 25, 2014
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by cartoon-books | Sep 24, 2014
And the coverage for Banned Books Week continues! Jeff did a blog for Reading Rainbow(!) this week-check it out!By Jeff Smith, best-selling author of the graphic album series BONE, advocate for Banned Books Week This year, I was surprised to learn that my cartoon...
by cartoon-books | Sep 24, 2014
More from Banned Books Week: Paste Magazine lists their top 10 challenged works:Some are surprising, like the benign Bone series, while others are definitely not, like the works of Frank Miller or Alan Moore. But all of these comics offer cultural value that deserves...
by cartoon-books | Sep 22, 2014
September 21st marks the start of Banned Books Week, and this year’s focus is on comics and graphic novels. Graphic novels continually rate on the American Library Association’s (ALA) Top 10 list of Frequently Challenged Books, with BONE landing at the #10 spot this...
by cartoon-books | Sep 20, 2014
Check out this week’s happenings! The Challenge: Click to participate in the Tuki Spot the Difference! The Adorable: Jeff Smith interviewed by a 5 year old! The Freebie! New Tuki page addedThe Fact: The Cartoonist Documentary The Serious: The Guardian asked...
by cartoon-books | Sep 19, 2014
Bone author Jeff Smith speaks out ahead of US Banned Books Week‘You can’t take away someone’s ability to choose what they want to read,’ says Smith, as forces of free speech mobilise for 2014 event focusing on graphic novels and comics
by cartoon-books | Sep 19, 2014
Liniers is an Argentinian cartoonist best known for his very popular work Macanudo, which is a daily comic strip published in the newspaper La Nacion. Liniers’ first U.S. published work debuted last Fall – The Big Wet Balloon, via TOON Books. Learn more about Liniers’...
by cartoon-books | Sep 16, 2014
List the 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take more than a few minutes, and don’t think too hard. They do not have to be the ‘right’ books or great works of literature, just ones that have affected you in some way. Jeff’s Favorites are (in no...
by cartoon-books | Sep 12, 2014
Jeff Lemire is the author and comics artist of such brilliant stories such as the Essex County Trilogy, Sweet Tooth, The Nobody and Animal Man. While most of his work is published by Top Shelf, he also writes comics for DC, Dark Horse and Valiant Comics. Everyone here...
by cartoon-books | Sep 9, 2014
Wherever Jeff goes-Conventions, store signings, book festivals-you name it—he always comes home with sketches from fans. Whether it is an homage to BONE, RASL, or TUKI, or to Jeff himself, we wind up with a trove of treasure! The National Book Festival was no...
by cartoon-books | Sep 5, 2014
Follow Friday: Tom Sniegoski Tom Sniegoski might be best known to BONE fans as the co-collaborator on the Quest for the Spark series as well as Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails, and Tall Tales! Tom is a very accomplished author, having worked on many other genres of books...
by cartoon-books | Sep 4, 2014
The annual National Book Festival took place last weekend in Washington, DC, where Jeff Smith was an invited guest at the first ever Graphic Novel Night Super Session. The inclusion of Graphic Novels was a smashing success with very long lines for Jeff’s signing and...
by cartoon-books | Sep 2, 2014
Check out the official cover for Tuki #2! The highly anticipated second issue will be shipping from Diamond Comics October 2014!
by cartoon-books | Aug 29, 2014
Gene Yang is the graphic novelist behind the critically acclaimed Boxers and Saints as well as American Born Chinese, the latter of which was the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award and the first to win the American Library Association’s...
