Boneville Blog
Previous Scholastic Giveaway
Scholastic gave away these awesome Bone freebies at their ALA booth last week!
Don’t forget to keep an eye out on Jeff’s Twitter @jeffsmithsbone for timely tweets about Scholastic and Graphix giveaways at different conferences throughout the year.
Curiosity from NatGeo Kids
Jeff was asked to give his insights on what made him curious as a child and how as an adult, he harnesses curiosity in children today. With commentary from other popular authors, librarians and educators, this is quite an inspiring read! Download your complimentary (free) e-book copy today at NatGeoKidsCuriosity.com.
The ALA Midwinter Conference took place this past weekend in Chicago
The ALA Midwinter Conference took place this past weekend in
Chicago. Here are a few shots of Jeff during his two sessions: Friday at the
Booklist Forum, and Saturday at the Freedom to Read panel. If you attended the
conference, do you have any photos you’d like to share? Feel free to post
below!
#alamw15
@jeffsmithsbone
@FTRF
@ALA_Booklist
February Store Special!
This month we are offering the Warrior Thorn Cold Cast Statue as our store special for February! https://www.boneville.com/store/
Sculpted in real pewter, designed by Jeff and animator Jennifer Oliver and sculpted by Tony Cipriano, this animation maquette quality statue is in scale with the other BONE characters in the cold cast series. This item retails for $124.95, but for the whole month of February we are offering this at a steal for $75.00! Free shipping over $50.00 in the USA only.
Graphix 10th Anniversary
In celebration, twelve Graphix artists have created original art in honor of the 10th anniversary of Graphix: The artists line-up includes:
- James Burks
- Nathan Fox
- Jimmy Gownley
- Matthew Holm
- Kazu Kibuishi
- Mike Maihack
- Dave Roman,
- Greg Ruth
- Jeff Smith
- Raina Telgemeier
- Doug TenNapel
- Craig Thompson
You’ll want to keep an eye out all year long for illustrations distributed at events and online. The current events line-up includes:
- ALA Midwinter (Chicago, IL)
- Emerald City Comic Con (Seattle, WA)
- Texas Library Association (Austin, TX)
- BookExpo (New York City, NY)
- ALA Annual (San Francisco, CA)
- Comic-Con International (San Diego, California)
- Long Beach Comic Expo (Long Beach, CA)
- Salt Lake Comic Con (Salt Lake City, UT
- New York Comic Con (New York City, NY).
Among these illustrations is BONE #1: Out from Boneville, Tribute Edition available on February 24, 2015. Find out more details on Scholastic.com
Ground Hog Day
Making Waves
Around 2000, Jeff was invited to draw a promotional cartoon in support of the CBLDF’s “Making Waves” cruise. The cruise was organized as a fundraiser to continue the organizations mission to protect the First Amendment rights of the comics community. This is the lineart of that piece, which features Marv from Frank Miller’s Sin City, Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, Will Eisner’s The Spirit, Evan Dorkin’s Milk and Cheese, and Jeff’s Fone Bone.
Peanut Butter and Jeremy’s Best Book Ever
Another gem to share! In 2003 Jeff was invited to draw a guest comic for James Kochalka’s ‘Peanut Butter and Jeremy’s Best Book Ever’ graphic novel.
Atlantis Fantasyworld
Sifting through the archives, we found this fun pin up Jeff drew for Joe Ferrara and his store, Atlantis Fantasyworld. Circa 2001.
Empty Love Stories Cover
In 1999 Jeff drew the cover art for our buddy and industry colleague, Steve Darnall for his ‘Empty Love Stories’ comic series!
ALA Midwinter Conference Reminder
A friendly reminder that the ALA Midwinter Conference kicks off this week! If you are attending, don’t miss Jeff’s sessions: Booklist Author Forum on Friday and Freedom to Read Foundation talk on Saturday. More information can be found at http://alamw15.ala.org
2015 Appearances Schedule
We’ve updated our Appearances Section, so you’ll know where to find us on the road! More dates to be added, so check back by clicking ABOUT, then CALENDER. We hope to see you in 2015!
Spot the Differences Answer!
Here are the answers to yesterdays challenge! Did you spot them all?
Spot the Differences!
Its time to play ‘Spot the Differences’, with Tuki!
How many can you find?
Resonancefm.com Replay
In case you missed the live broadcast of Jeff’s interview with Resonancefm.com here are links to the extended podcast on their site:
– Panelborders
– Resonancefm.com
– iTunes
Enjoy!
Happy Martin Luther King Day
Weekly Recap
Check out what you might have missed this week.
The Tribute Edition: BONE #1: Out from Boneville
The Greeting: Bone Happy New Year Card
The Mention: Paste Magazine Honors Tuki
The Question: How are you enjoying Tuki So Far
The First 2015 Appearance: ALA Midwater Conference
Save the Date! ALA Midwinter Conference
Its time for the ALA’s Midwinter Conference! Held in Chicago from January 30th through February 3rd at McCormick Place West, this is the kickoff event of the year for anyone passionate about books, libraries and to see what’s in store for the future of the industry.
Jeff will be involved in two sessions during the conference: Friday January 30th at the Booklist Author Forum from 4:00pm-5:15pm and on Saturday February 1st at the Freedom to Read Foundation event taking place from 7:00pm-9:00pm. See schedule for locations.
For the Booklist forum, Jeff will be joined by Francoise Mouly, Cece Bell and Gene Luen Yang as they dig into all things graphic novels. For the Freedom to Read Foundation session, Jeff was invited to be the speaker for this year’s special event as BONE was one of the most challenged or banned books of 2014. After his talk, there will be a brief Q&A followed by a book signing.
For more information about the conference and the many wonderful opportunities to be found, please visit: http://alamw15.ala.org/
Enjoying Tuki Online?
Season Three of Tuki Save the Humans kicked off last Monday – how are you enjoying the ride so far?
If you’re new to the story, you can always pick it up at the very beginning at https://www.boneville.com/comic/
ki
Paste Magazine Honors Tuki!
Paste Magazine gives Tuki Save the Humans the distinction of being one of the top webcomics of 2014 – landing at #2! *blush*
View the other amazing talent that made the list:
Bone Tribute Edition
A sneak peak at the Bone Tribute Edition! This year marks the 10th Anniversary of Scholastic bringing Bone into their publishing house with the honor of being the foundation for their graphic novel imprint, Graphix!
In celebration of this milestone, Scholastic has published this tribute edition of Out from Boneville complete with minicomics and artwork inspired by Bone, created by 16 bestselling, award-winning artists.
Get yours today!
New Years 2015
Instead of Christmas cards this year, we thought a New Years Greeting would be a bit more fun! From all of us at Cartoon Books, we would like to wish our family, friends, fans and colleagues a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2015!
Weekly Recap
This week we have news about Tuki now available online, Miracleman Annual #1 variant now available in stores, multilingual publishers surfaced, and Jeff talked with Resonance FM. Find out more below!
Now Available: Season 3 of Tuki Save the Humans
Also Available in Comic Stores: Miracleman Annual #1 Variant
Italian News: Fumettologica Interview with Jeff
French News: RASL in French!
Slovenian News: Slovenian Publisher Released Out of Boneville!
RASL in French!
Our long time French publisher, Delcourt Editions, recently began publishing Rasl and before the holidays we received our sample copies of volume 2!
Unlike Cartoon Books’ original four graphic novels, Delcourt is collecting them slightly differently: the first two trades comprise volume 1, while trades 2 and 3 follow the original design. Delcourt is the leading French publisher for most of the comics industry. See the many titles they publish by visiting their website: http://www.editions-delcourt.fr/
Slovenian Publisher Released Out of Boneville!
We received our sample copies from one of our new publishers, DESK. The Slovenian publisher just released Out from Boneville, or Na Svidenje, Boneville. It is still very exciting to see Bone translated in new languages and DESK did a beautiful job!
