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Jeff Appearance in Cleveland at Heights Library October 19th!

Jeff Appearance in Cleveland at Heights Library October 19th!

Jeff will be visiting the Cleveland Heights area on Saturday October 19th for a presentation and signing at the Heights High School Auditorium beginning at 7pm. This event is being sponsored by the Cleveland Heights Library and is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Please sign up here: https://events.heightslibrary.org/event/12349560

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2024 Ringo Comic Book Awards VOTE NOW!

2024 Ringo Comic Book Awards VOTE NOW!

The nominees for the 2024 Ringo Awards have been announced and Jeff is up for Best Cartoonist and Best Humor Comic for BONE: More Tall Tales! Voting is now open! Cast your choice here! https://ringoawards.com

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Random RASL

Random RASL

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2024 Ringo Comic Book Awards VOTE NOW!

2024 Ringo Comic Book Awards Nominees Announced

The nominees for the 2024 Ringo Awards have been announced and Jeff is up for Best Cartoonist and Best Humor Comic for BONE: More Tall Tales!

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Jeff Smith’s Bone: Thorn’s Irresistibly Better Draft

Jeff Smith’s Bone: Thorn’s Irresistibly Better Draft

Thanks, JD Palermo for the review of THORN! Read more here
https://gutternaut.net/2024/07/jeff-smiths-bone-thorns-irresistibly-better-draft/

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BONE Fan Art

BONE Fan Art

Super swell fan art by @RiverCreek!
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Caption This!

Caption This!

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Did you know? The War of the Currents

Did you know? The War of the Currents

The War of the Currents referred to in RASL was a real contest between Thomas Edison who invented Direct Current, and Nikola Tesla, the inventor of Alternate Current. With the help of George Westinghouse, AC won the day but Tesla was written out of the history books.

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PW Review of THORN!

PW Review of THORN!

Thorn: The Complete Proto-Bone College Strips 1982–1986, and Other Early Drawings
Jeff Smith. Cartoon Books, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-1-888963-86-1
Smith reprints the complete 1980s run of his precocious college comic strip, much of which he later reworked into his fantasy series Bone. Published in the Ohio State University paper The Lantern, Thorn shares a cast and many plot beats with Bone, though topical characters like Voochko the Soviet pig and president “Ronnie Doody, the talking puppet” were not destined to make the transition. In his introduction, Smith comments that “where Bone is a novel, Thorn is more like a variety show.” The freewheeling fantasy indulges in anachronistic references and fourth-wall-breaking humor, as characters climb out of the page to argue with their creator, become “trapped in real life,” and cross over into another Lantern strip. Smith is clearly influenced by Doonesbury and Bloom County, but his love for an even earlier age of cartooning is reflected in the many callbacks to Pogo, Popeye, and classic Looney Tunes. The early art is rough but improves rapidly, and there are plenty of extras to satisfy the most demanding fans, including childhood artwork, story sketches, an interview with Smith, and an essay by fellow OSU alum Derf Backderf weighing in on a campus controversy caused by a Thorn story line. Though this is most valuable as a blueprint for what was to come in Bone, it’s got charm enough to stand on its own.

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Happy Independence Day!

Happy Independence Day!

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Random BONE: Gertie Food Fight!

Random BONE: Gertie Food Fight!

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Who’s hungry!?

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The Lebanon News – Review of THORN

The Lebanon News – Review of THORN

Mark Slade reviews THORN: The Complete Proto-BONE College Strips for the Lebanon News. Read more here!
https://www.thelebanonnews.com/book-review-thorn-complete-proto–bone-college-strips/article_1b706cf1-6a74-5a65-be11-d61bada6e640.html

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National Selfie Day

National Selfie Day

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Happy Summer Solstice

Happy Summer Solstice

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