The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is auctioning a piece of original art by Charles Vess!  This piece appeared in the Rose story written by Jeff and painted by Charles.  It’s a gorgeous page featuring Briar.  Go Bid now!

Full Color One Volume Edition Debuts on Saturday

On Saturday October 22, The BONE Full Color One Volume Slipcase debuts right here in Columbus at the Mid-Ohio-Con. I’ll be at the Laughing Ogre booth from 2 to 4 to say hi, and sign copies.

The Slipcase Edition will be in stores November 15, and is available for pre-order on Amazon right now.

Slipcase Goes Back to Press 

We also learned from our distributor this week that all the books in the warehouse shipped, and we are sold out!  Yikes! It’s the Holiday season! We’re going back to press immediately!

Here’s a quick look at the book:  With Color by Steve Hamaker!

There’s a new color section in the back loaded with photos and an essay I wrote called 20 Years with BONE, an illustrated Time-line, and a BONE comic book cover gallery scanned from the original first printings!

Chunky!

This is my first visit to Mid-Ohio-Con in a long, long time – -since it was taken over by Wizard World and they moved to the beautiful downtown convention center. Can’t wait to check it out.

If you are coming in from out of town, welcome to Colo!   Columbus Underground is a good guide for interesting restaurants and cool activities.

See you Saturday!

OCTOBER 14, 15, 16, 2011

Next week, we leave for New York City and the New York Comic Con. The show will take place October 14th thru the 16th. The layout of the show floor is below, so you can find us easily. Cartoon Books will set up in booth 1245. You can click on the floor plan to make it bigger! Here is a link to the interactive map on the NYCC website, if you’d like to create a show planner for yourself.

As you can see from the close up below, we will be across from DC Comics and Graphitti Designs. We will be sharing booth space again with our best buds, Robyn and Terry Moore (Rachel Rising) of Abstract Studios.

Jeff’s NYCC Signing Schedule*

All signings will take place at the Cartoon Books Booth #1245 *Signing times are subject to change, so check with the Cartoon Books staff daily.

Friday, October 14
Booth Signing-check booth for times

Saturday, October 15
Booth Signing-check booth for times

Jeff’s NYCC PANEL Schedule:

Saturday, October 15
3:45pm-4:45pm Room 1A23:
Celebrating 20 Years of BONE with Jeff Smith! Speakers include: Cassandra Pelham, David Saylor, Dr. Katie Monnin, Jeff Smith and Tom Sniegoski

OCTOBER 22,2011 • DEBUT of the Full Color One Volume SLIPCASE EDITION!

October 22nd! THE DEBUT OF THE SLIPCASED, ONE VOLUME COLOR EDITION OF BONE!

We head to our own backyard for Mid Ohio Con in Columbus, Ohio. The show will be held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Jeff will be signing “exclusively” at the Laughing Ogre booth on Saturday, October 22nd ONLY! The signing will be from 2:00pm-4:00pm! Here are floor plans for Mid Ohio.

BONE and RASL colorist, Steve Hamaker, will be set up at the show all weekend to sell his creation, Fish-n-Chips.

OCTOBER 28, thru November 1st, 2011

October 28th thru November 1st, Jeff and Vijaya will be flying to Italy to attend the Lucca Comics and Games show. Bao (our Italian publisher) will be premiering the Italian language black and white version of the Bone One Volume Edition. Jeff will be signing daily at the Bao publishing’s booth. Below is an illustration Jeff did for Bao’s company mascot.

Jeff will be on a panel on October 29th, called “Ascent and decline of the Indie Comics Scene” with mostly Italian authors. October 30th, he will be on a panel with French author Baru, David Lloyd, Jiro Taniguchi and Craig Thompson.

November 3rd, 2011

November 3, Jeff will attend the Antwerp Book Festival in Belgium. The Antwerp Book Fair is a large trade fair for books, held annually at the beginning of November at Antwerp Expo in Antwerp, Belgium. It is organized by Boek.be. All Flemish and Dutch publishers, and several foreign language distributors present their newest books at the fair.

Hope to see you at any of the conventions, as we continue to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of BONE!

Jeff is working hard on the next issue of RASL. So, I figured I would pass along some fun videos and pictures from the first half of the conventions we’ve been attending.

Here is an interview Jeff did with the Stumptown Trader Review in San Diego.

And here is their Comic Con 2011 Highlight Reel. Jeff  makes a cameo about the 1:55 mark.

Publishers Weekly had some fun pics and information on the kid’s books at the show. You can read that by clicking here!

Baltimore Comic Con was fun as Jeff, Steve and I continued the party with Robyn and Terry Moore. This photo courtesy of the Baltimore Comic Con Facebook page!

Fan Expo Canada was the highlight of the BONE tour for me thus far. The screen capture below is from the video of where I was “punked” by a girl from MTV Live, who was cutting in line to get an autograph. After she told me, and I saw the camera, this moment will go down as the most embarrassing of my life, so far! You can see the whole video here!

We will have more pics and stories soon, and Jeff should be back to blogging next week!

Next up on the 20th Anniversary BONE Tour…New York Comic Con! Hope to see you there!

The BONE 20th Anniversary Tour continues this week as we visit our neighbors to the north.

We want everybody to be able to find us easily at our booth #129, so here is the floorplan of the convention center. You can click on it to make it bigger.

This is a more magnified version of where you can find us. You can also go to FanExpo Canada’s website and download a pdf for yourself here!

Jeff will be doing two (2) signings a day.

The first will occur in the morning at the Cartoon Books booth #129. This signing will not require a ticket, but may get capped quickly if the line is huge. The autograph area signings in the evenings will be ticketed. Tickets for the evening signings are only available at The Cartoon Books Booth. You must receive a ticket from a Cartoon Books staff member (no purchase necessary) and there will only be a limited number of tickets available per day.

The schedule will be:

Thursday August 25th.
Show Hours 2pm-9pm
2pm – 4pm Cartoon Books Booth Signing at booth 129
7:30pm – 900pm in the Autograph Area “CC”

Friday August 26th.
Show Hours 10am-8pm
11am – 1pm Cartoon Books Booth Signing at booth 129
2:30 – 3:30pm Creating the Worlds of BONE & RASL Panel Rm 716
5:30 – 700pm in the Autograph Area “CC”

Saturday Show Hours 10am-8pm
11am – 1pm Cartoon Books Booth Signing at booth 129
2:30 – 3:30pm Conversational panel with Mark Askwith Rm 718
5:30 – 700pm in the Autograph Area “CC”

Sunday Show Hours 10am-6pm
11am – 1pm Cartoon Books Booth Signing at booth 129
4:30 – 600pm in the Autograph Area “CC”

And don’t forget, we’re rolling into town with our limited edition BONE 20th Anniversary Box Sets!

The Full Color One Volume Editions with lots of whistles and bells! For details, click here.

Toronto. Here we come!!!