Boneville Blog
We just received our author comps from our Russian
publisher, Ramona, for BONE Volume 4. Love that logo!
The Cartoon Art Museum is on the Move!
http://www.newsarama.com/31853-cartoon-art-museums-unveils-new-bay-area-location.html
Fone Bone gets around! Boneville, Atheia, Prague…where will he wind up next?
It’s
that time of year again! A friendly reminder that its never too early
to start shopping for that BONE/RASL/Tuki fan in your life.
Fa-la-la-la-la! boneville.com
Oh the things you find searching through Google
images! Check out this awesome Fone Bone jack-o-lantern from our fans over at
The Sci-Fi Catholic. Credit to D.G.G. Davidson
Warrior Thorn and a Stick
Eater!! WOWIE!!!!!!
And here’s Warrior Thorn and
Fone Bone! She looks awesome!
In honor of Halloween, here’s
Thorn and Fone Bone!
A few years ago, Publishers
Weekly ran a story: “From Print to Pumpkin”, which featured a school project
librarian Esther Frazee asked of her fourth grade students. The assignment was
to decorate a pumpkin that represented their favorite character from their
summer reading, and look who made the cut! The Fone Bone pumpkin won the award
for ‘most creative use of materials’. WE LOVE IT!
AHHHH! It’s Friday!
#TBT (L to R) Master fantasy
painter Charles Vess, Joe Ferrara of Atlantis Fantasyworld comic shop in Santa
Cruz, CA, and Jeff in San Diego circa 2000.
If you’re watching the final debate tonight, keep an eye out for this guy: Ken ‘Fone’ Bone!
Jeff was recently a guest on
The Ohio Channel’s ‘Book Notes’ where he talked about how he got into
cartooning, the things that inspired him and his career today!
Jeff was selected as one of
the artists for the ‘Art Makes Columbus’ campaign last month: Jeff Smith:
Cartooning is My Art
Publishers Weekly reviews BONE CODA!
Twenty-five years after Smith began his now-classic fantasy series, this epilogue picks up after the end of the saga as the Bone cousins make their way back home with the usual mishaps and trouble. Phoney Bone’s carelessness and braggadocio lead them into one last adventure. The new tale only spans 36 pages and is in black and white like the original comics, which may disappoint the many fans of Scholastic’s beautifully colored editions. The remainder of the book reprints Weiner’s critical and historical essays and a Smith biography and interview. This version includes spot illustrations of panels from the series. The articles do an excellent job of giving Bone its due but will have the avid reader impatiently flipping through the book to see whether there are any more comics. The new Bone story is slight in scale and short in length, less a saga than an anecdote. But Smith still delights with witty, sharp dialogue and fluid, vivid art that bring three of comic literature’s most beloved characters to life once more. (Aug.)
CXC DEAD DOG PARTY – SUNDAY
NIGHT!
Hosted by Julia
Gfrörer and Sean
T. Collins
Need to beat those post-show blues? Join us on Sunday night
after the final day of CXC to kick back, share your stories from the weekend,
and toast another year of the festival.
The Dead Dog Party (always held on the last day of a con) is a
great last chance to catch up with old and new friends from the show. It will
be held at St
James Tavern, 1057 N 4th St. No dogs will be harmed in the process (it’s
just a weird name).
Party flier designed by Julia
Gfrörer
CXC: From Campus to Downtown, Cartoons Take
Over Columbus!
This map will help you get around to all of
the events that CXC has to offer from Thursday through Sunday!
NOTE: The Comics Expo on Saturday and Sunday
is being held at the Columbus Metropolitan Library DOWNTOWN (96 S. Grant Ave)
NOT at Driving Park branch, as was incorrectly stated in the Columbus Dispatch.
SUNDAY!
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) is taking place this
weekend at the Columbus Metropolitan Library in downtown Columbus. Join us for
a family friendly cartoon festival that is free and open to the public! Comics’
brightest stars will be on hand exhibiting, presenting panels, workshops and
signings from 12pm-5pm (Sunday). See you there!
http://cartooncrossroadscolumbus.com/schedule.html
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
CXC SATURDAY NIGHT
AFTER-PARTY!
Free and open to the public!
Join the Cartoon
Crossroads Columbus – CXC special guests, exhibitors, organizers and
supporters for the crowning party of the festival weekend down at Strongwater
Food and Spirits!
Kick up your heels, grab a drink, dinner, or snacks, and rub
elbows with your fellow comics comrades. This night will also be a celebration
of the great Stan
Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo), and we’ve got some fun entertainment lined-up for
that!
Check out the party flier (a riff on Sakai’s CRITTERS no.1)
designed by CXC special guest Brandon
Graham!
Sponsored by The Comics Reporter
Strongwater
Food and Spirits is located in a century-old warehouse in the historic
neighborhood of Franklinton. Our event will be located in the back party space
of the building through the side door facing the parking-lot. Guests can enter
through the restaurant as well. Parking is free – and the drive is less than 10
minutes from the location of the final program at Columbus
College of Art & Design.
CXC: From Campus to Downtown, Cartoons Take
Over Columbus!
This map will help you get around to all of
the events that CXC has to offer from Thursday through Sunday!
NOTE: The Comics Expo on Saturday and Sunday
is being held at the Columbus Metropolitan Library DOWNTOWN (96 S. Grant Ave)
NOT at Driving Park branch, as was incorrectly stated in the Columbus Dispatch.
SATURDAY!
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) is taking place this
weekend at the Columbus Metropolitan Library in downtown Columbus. Join us for
a family friendly cartoon festival that is free and open to the public! Comics’
brightest stars will be on hand exhibiting, presenting panels, workshops and
signings from 11am-6pm (Saturday). See you there!
Friday Night October 14th at Brewcadia!
CXC FRIDAY NIGHT AFTER-PARTY!
Hosted by the one-and-only Katie
Skelly!
Free and open to the public!
Katie
Skelly (winner of CXC 2015’s Emerging Talent award) invites you to join the
Cartoon
Crossroads Columbus – CXC special guests, exhibitors, organizers and
supporters for our big Friday night after party on October 14th at 9:30pm!
Will there be costumes? YES! Will there be specialty comics
cocktails? YES! Will there be FREE ARCADE GAMES? YES YES YES!
Brewcadia
is located at 467 N. High St, in the Short North neighborhood of Columbus. It
is directly ABOVE Barley’s
Brewing Company. They have over 40 craft
beers, free-play arcade games from the 80s to now, and pizza!
Cartoon
Crossroads Columbus – CXC will have full run of the space that evening, so
come get party with us!
Party flier designed by Katie
Skelly ♥
Sponsored by Mills
James
https://www.facebook.com/The-OFFICIAL-Jeff-Smith-page-113133408702642/
Friday October 14th at Wexner Center’s Mershon Auditorium
Legendary Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau discusses his life
and work as one of our most distinguished and decorated political cartoonists
of the past 50 years. Along with his influential strip, syndicated in roughly
1,000 newspapers around the world, Trudeau is also the creator of the political
satire show Alpha House for Amazon Studios. Joining Trudeau on stage is
acclaimed novelist Glen David Gold, best known for Carter Beats the Devil
(2001) and Sunnyside (2009).
Copresented by Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library
& Museum with support from GoComics.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1736335106620189/
FREE for all audiences (no tickets
required)
Our little comics festival gets
national coverage in The Washington Post!