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Holiday Shopping!

by | Oct 30, 2014

Get a jump on your holiday shopping! We list new items on sale every month, and for October we are offering the complete RASL Hardcover for 20% off.

Don’t forget, free shipping for orders over $50.00 (in the USA only) and Jeff will autograph any book free of charge! DEAL!

https://www.boneville.com/store/

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Mid Ohio Con Reminder

by | Oct 28, 2014

This weekend is Mid Ohio Con! Taking place at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, located at 500 North High Street in the Short North part of town.

The show runs Friday through Sunday:
Friday: 3:00pm-8:00pm
Saturday: 10:00am-7:00pm
Sunday: 11:00am-5:00pm

You can find us during the show:

  • Cartoon Books’ booth is #910
  • Friday: Booth Signing 5:00pm-6:00pm
  • Saturday: Booth Signing 11:00am-1:00pm
  • Saturday: Panel: Jeff Smith on Will Eisner 1:30pm-2:30pm Room C121
  • Sunday: Booth Signing 12:00pm

Hope to see you!

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Delaware County District Library

by | Oct 21, 2014

Our good friends and industry colleagues, Raina Telgemeier and Kazu Kibuishi, have been touring the states with their popular Graphic Novel discussion, and their next stop will be in Delaware, Ohio!

Jeff was invited to present along with them, so I hope you can join us for a fun and interactive evening of talking comics, drawing demonstration followed by a signing with Kazu, Raina and Jeff!

This event is taking place at the Delaware Main Library on Wednesday October 29th from 7:00pm-8:30pm

Mid Ohio Con is a go!

by | Oct 20, 2014

Yes folks it’s true, we’ve tacked on ANOTHER show before closing out the year. We’ll be heading back to Mid-Ohio Con at the end of October for the first time in a number of years and we are excited to see our hometown fans!

We will be there for the whole weekend, with Jeff doing a panel or two and a handful of signings at Cartoon Books’ booth. Details are still coming together, which we will post as soon as we have news to share!

Hope to see you! 

Follow Friday: Skottie Young

by | Oct 17, 2014

Skottie Young has worked on projects for some heavy hitters such as Marvel, Warner Bros., Image Comics, Upper Deck, Mattel and others. He’s currently illustrating adaptations of L. Frank Baum’s OZ novels with writer Eric Shanower. The series is a New York Times Best Seller and has gained critical acclaim from both fans and critics.

For more on Skottie, check out his website http://skottieyoung.com/ and his blog http://skottieyoung.blogspot.com

England Schedule for this weekend!

by | Oct 14, 2014

Just a reminder! The Lakes Festival, taking place in Kendal England, will be hosting 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:

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Saturday October 18th

Panel: Bare Bones 10:00am-11:00am 
Location:  Brewery Arts Centre
Signing immediately following panel from 11:00am-12:00pm

An additional signing  will be taking place 4:30pm-6:00pm at the Comics Clock Tower in Kendal Town Hall, Table 1.

Sunday October 19th

Panel: In a World of Their Own 4:00pm-5:00pm
Location: Brewery Arts Centre, Screen 2
Signing immediately following panel: 5:00pm-6:00pm!

**Special Event Store Signing**

Monday October 20th

Signing at Orbital Comics 5:00pm-7:00pm. Orbital Comics is located at 8 Great Newport Street, London.

This is the last festival for Jeff for the year, so we hope you can join us! For more information about the festival, visit: http://www.comicartfestival.com

#Follow Friday: Fabio Moon

by | Oct 10, 2014

Fabio Moon is the Eisner Award winning Brazilian comic book artist best known for his work on Casanova and Daytripper. His twin brother, Gabriel Ba is also an accomplished comic book artist.

Follow Fabio by visiting his Facebook page and the blog he and his brother Gabriel mange.

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Throwback Thursday: Beyond Gallery Exhibit

by | Oct 9, 2014

In 2008, The Wexner Center for the Arts (located at The Ohio State University), hosted the: Jeff Smith Bone and Beyond gallery exhibit, which featured Jeff’s original art from Bone, Rasl and his Shazam miniseries. Also on display were original pages from some of Jeff’s heroes such as E.C. Segar’s Popeye, Carl Barks’ Uncle Scrooge, Charles Schulz’s Peanuts and more. Perhaps the most jaw-dropping part of the exhibit was the floor-to- ceiling panel installation taken from a scene in the Bone series. The image of that piece is attached.

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Never Too Early!

by | Oct 7, 2014

Get a jump on your holiday shopping at the Boneville Store! We list new items on sale every month, and for October we are offering the complete RASL Hardcover for 20% off.

Don’t forget, free shipping for orders over $50.00 (in the USA only) and Jeff will autograph any book free of charge! DEAL! 

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Weekly Recap

by | Oct 4, 2014

Guess what happened this week?  

The Appearance: We’ll be in England October 18-20

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The Doppelganger: Is this Kingdok?

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The Freebie! Download First Volumes on Kobo

The Statement: Kobo and Cartoon Books Partnership 

The Legacy: Will Eisner: 75 Years of Graphic Storytelling

The Tribute: Tesla Crater

The Mystery: Fairy or Ghost Circles?

The Follow: Phil Jimenez

The Fact: What is a Bone Fone?

The International: Fan spotted ad at the Madrid Airport

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The Addict: Bone Fone

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Friday Fun Fact: The Bone Fone

by | 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 a symphony orchestra each time you use it.

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Follow Friday: Phil Jimenez

by | 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 course as part of the undergraduate cartooning program at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, where he himself once studied.

To learn more, check out his Twitter @Philjimeneznyc and Instagram: philjimeneznyc

Will Eisner: 75 Years of Graphic Storytelling

by | 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 Eisner’s career and its impact. The discussion will take place in the Jean and Charles Schulz Lecture Hall at 7:30pm. This event is free and open to the public.

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For more information, visit Cartoons.osu.edu 

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 Centre 
    Panel: Bare Bones 10:00am-11:00am 
    Signing immediately following panel: 11:00am-12:00pm
  • Comics Clock Tower in Kendal Town Hall, Table 1
    An additional signing will be taking place 4:30pm-6:00pm at the Comics Clock Tower in Kendal Town Hall, Table 1

Sunday October 19th

  • Panel: In a World of Their Own-4:00pm-5:00pm   
    Signing immediately following panel: 5:00pm-6:00pm

**Special Event Store Signing**

Monday October 20th

  • Orbital Comics is located at 8 Great Newport Street, London
  • Signing at Orbital Comics 5:00pm-7:00pm. 

This is the last festival for Jeff Smith for the year, If you’re in the area, we hope you can join us! Visit the festival site for more information  http://www.comicartfestival.com/

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Weekly Recap

by | Sep 27, 2014

Check out this week’s happenings! 
 
 

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Ohio Library Banned book display

#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 works, such as Pedro and Me, Frumpy the Clown, and The Life and Times of Juniper Lee. Judd also has a TV show on Hulu called ‘The Awesomes’.

Read more about Judd by visiting these links:

http://www.juddwinick.com/
https://www.facebook.com/judd.winick

And the coverage for Banned Books Week continues! Jeff did a blog for Reading Rainbow(!) this week-check it out!

by | 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 novel series BONE was the tenth most banned and challenged book of 2013. The characters in BONE have been a part of me ever since I was a kid, and I’m proud that they’ve become a part of the lives of young people all over the world. But there are some folks who don’t like it, and want it taken out of schools and libraries. People have been trying to ban books for as long as books have existed, and attacks on comics are nothing new, of course. With their unique way of combining words and images, comics have long been misunderstood, and an easy target for the people who glimpse a panel or a page out of context and jump to the wrong conclusion. Through my work on the board of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, I’ve seen how comics still suffer under the mistaken notion that they must be simple, juvenile, and far from being an art form, consider them low-value speech. When I was young, some thought that they caused illiteracy. Even as a kid, I knew that was silly. Comics were a hugely positive influence on my childhood. I learned to read because of Peanuts by Charles Schulz. I collected comic books with my friends, and we would pick our favorite artists and try to draw like them. The stories in those little panels ignited my imagination! It wasn’t just the unforgettable adventures and characters, it was the way you read them! You read it left to right, top to bottom just like any other book, but there was so much more going on! Your eyes leap across the space between the panels, creating movement in your mind as you flow across the page. I quickly realized that reading a comic didn’t mean just the words in the balloons, because a great deal of story information is contained in the image, and both need to be processed simultaneously. I couldn’t get enough. I used to make homemade comics with early versions of the Bone characters. Later on in college, my interest in books, as well as a love of movies, art and symbolism, led me to start interweaving more literary structures into my comics. When I started BONE as a comic book, I became part of a wave of cartoonists that wanted to do more with the medium. Since then, there has been a renaissance. Comics and graphic novels, as they are sometimes known, are now part of the literary scene, awarded prizes, reviewed by critics, filling the shelves of libraries and bookstores, and being taught in schools. The worst part about my book being banned is that I hate to think of what would have happened if those Peanuts books that inspired me to become a cartoonist were taken away from me when I was a kid. I’m so grateful to have been inspired by those comics, and I’m so very lucky that I’ve had the chance to inspire other young people to try making comics of their own too. Reading lets our imagination grow, and helps us find the paths that will inspire us for the rest of our lives. That kind of inspiration should never be taken away. But when a book is banned, that’s exactly what happens. Jeff Smith is the New York Times Best Selling author of the graphic album series BONE that has sold millions of copies around the world. In 2004, BONE was included in Time Magazine’s Top 10 Greatest Graphic Novels of All Time. His other works include RASL, an adult thriller, and the 2,000,000 year old story of the first human to leave Africa, TUKI: SAVE the HUMANS which can be read on-line for free at his website, boneville.com. Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community –- librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types –- in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.

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