England Festival & Orbital Comics

by | 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...

Weekly Recap

by | 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...

#Follow Friday: Judd Winick

by | 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...

Banned Books Week 2014

by | 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...

Weekly Recap

by | 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...

Follow Friday: Liniers

by | 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’...

What are your Top 10 Books?

by | 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...

#FollowFriday Jeff Lemire

by | 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...

National Book Festival Fan Art

by | 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...

Follow Friday: Tom Sniegoski

by | 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...

National Book Festival Follow-up

by | 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...

Tuki #2 Cover

by | Sep 2, 2014

Check out the official cover for Tuki #2! The highly anticipated second issue will be shipping from Diamond Comics October 2014!

Follow Friday: Gene Luen Yang

by | 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...

My inspiration for Rasl

by | Aug 27, 2014

Science fiction and noir. RASL came out of my love for these genres. Some of my favorite authors are Arthur C. Clarke, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. I also watch a lot of noir film classics like The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep. – Jeff Smith

Rocket Raccoon Sketches

by | Aug 26, 2014

Jeff Smith was invited by Marvel to participate in the re-launch of Guardians of the Galaxy’s“ Rocket Raccoon” story. He did a variant cover that was sold exclusively at Comic-Con International in San Diego this past July. Here you can see the entire process, from...

National Book Festival Reminder

by | Aug 21, 2014

As a reminder, the 2014 Library of Congress National Book Festival is next Saturday, August 30 at the Washington Convention Center. The event is free and open to the public, and will run from 10:00am to 10:00pm. Jeff was invited to give a presentation at the...