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NETFLIX SECURES RIGHTS TO AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST
JEFF SMITH’S INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED
COMIC BOOK SERIES BONE!
For Immediate Release
Netflix announced today that it has secured the rights to Jeff Smith’s award-winning and New York Times best-selling international comic book series, BONE, with plans to develop an animated series that follows the iconic Bone cousins on an adventure through a vast, uncharted desert and into a mysterious valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures.
BONE has been published in over 30 countries since 1991, with over 9 million copies in print in North America alone. It is among TIME Magazine’s “Ten Best Graphic Novels of All Time” and winner of more than 40 national and international publishing awards, including the Eisner Awards, Harvey Awards, and The French Alph Art. BONE was a pioneer in comics publishing for kids as the launch title for Scholastic’s graphic novel imprint, Graphix Books, when it debuted in 2005.
“I’ve waited a long time for this,” says Smith, creator of the BONE graphic novels. “Netflix is the perfect home for BONE. Fans of the books know that the story develops chapter by chapter and book by book. An animated series is exactly the way to do this! The team at Netflix understands BONE and is committed to doing something special – this is good news for kids and cartoon lovers all over the world.”
Jeff Smith is an American cartoonist whose other award-winning and acclaimed comics include SHAZAM! The Monster Society of Evil, RASL, Little Mouse Gets Ready!, and BONE: Tall Tales. Smith splits his time between Columbus and Key West with his wife and business partner, Vijaya Iyer, where he is working on his current project TUKI: 2 Million BCE.
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Our pal Mark shared this amazing canvas he made for his daughter out of almost 6,000 Perler beads. Incredible! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Nevan’s Goon Bone drawing from the great Eric Powell – Awesomesauce!
Our pal Jonathan, wearing a Bartleby t-shirt, holding Bartleby the pup and Bartleby the rat creature 🙂
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CXC 2019 Highlights: Dav Pilkey at Mershon Auditorium. (Jeff and Dav; Dav on stage; David Saylor from Scholastic, Dav and Jenny Robb)
CXC 2019 Highlights: Dav Pilkey at Mershon Auditorium. 2,000+ kiddos having the time of their lives (credit to M. Damsen for video)
Publishers Weekly posted a nice write up about CXC!
CXC 2019 Highlights: Jeff signing at his table and Terry Moore (our neighbor on the show floor) sketching
CXC 2019 Highlights: AAEC (Association of American Editorial Cartoonists) Chalk Drawings, part 2 (after a rainstorm)
CXC 2019 Highlights: AAEC (Association of American Editorial Cartoonists) Chalk Drawings, part 1 (after a rainstorm)
CXC 2019 Highlights: Mike Mignola and Jeff Smith Keynote, In Conversation
For those of you unable to join us for CXC, here are a few highlights from this years show!
Repost from Jared Gardner:
One last #cxc2019
panel to share: My final panel of the festival was hosting two of my
heroes: Jeff Smith and Terry Moore. They talked about self-publishing
and their careers while inviting the audience up to watch them at work.
And at a question about the technicalities of self-publishing, Terry
jumped up and walked through the whole scheduling process at a
whiteboard
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus 2019 is a wrap! Thank you to our wonderful volunteers, comics fans, sponsors, partners and most of all Rebecca Damsen, Lucy Caswell and Tom Spurgeon! Without your tireless dedication and championing of comics and reading this show couldn’t exist! After some rest, onto year 6! Cheers!
Back to the drawing board. Let’s make some comics!
Come on down to the Columbus Metropolitan Library for the CXC Comics Expo! Show hours today are 1pm-5pm.
Here is Jeff’s schedule for today:
Panel with Terry Moore Room 1A 2:30pm-3:20pm
Signapalooza in Library Lobby 3:30pm-4:20pm
Come on down to the Columbus Metropolitan Library for the CXC Comics Expo! Show hours today are 11am-5pm. Here is Jeff’s schedule today: Signing at Cartoon Books table 4pm-5pm
Reminder – don’t miss this very special event! This afternoon – CXC 2019 Keynote: Mike Mignola In Conversation with Jeff Smith! 4pm at Mershon Auditorium. Limited tickets remaining – admission is free but a ticket is required.
In case you missed Jeff’s CXC segment on Good Day Marketplace – check it out!
Don’t forget to tune into Fox28 Columbus’ Good Day Marketplace TODAY AT 10AM. Jeff will be a guest this morning, talking about the CXC festival which kicks off today! See the schedule here: http://cartooncrossroadscolumbus.com/schedule
Cartoon Crossroads Columbus begins this weekend! Here is Jeff’s schedule for the Comics Expo, which takes place Saturday (show hours 11am-5pm) and Sunday (show hours 1pm-5pm) at the Columbus Metropolitan Library downtown. All events are free!
Saturday September 28th:
Signing at Cartoon Books table 12pm-1pm and 4pm-5pm
Sunday September 29th:
Panel with Terry Moore Room 1A 2:30pm-3:20pm
Signapalooza in Library Lobby 3:30pm-4:20pm