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Comic book series by Jeff Smith

Os
Encompass of the start Bone event; the same prototype is used for the cover of Bone: Handbook and for Os: Out from Boneville.
Publication information
Publisher	Cartoon Books (self-published) Paradigm Comics (issues #21–27)
Schedule	Bimonthly, with several delays
Format	Limited serial
Genre	Comedy, loftier fantasy
Publication date	July 1991 – June 2004
No. of bug	55
Main character(southward)	The Bone cousins Thorn Harvestar Gran'ma Ben Lucius Down
Creative team
Written by	Jeff Smith
Creative person(due south)	Jeff Smith
Colorist(s)	Steve Hamaker

Bone is an American independently-published graphic novel series, written and illustrated by Jeff Smith, originally serialized in 55 irregularly released problems from 1991 to 2004.

Smith'south blackness-and-white drawings, inspired past blithe cartoons and comic strips, are singularly characterized by a mixture of both light-hearted comedy and dark fantasy thriller. The author, Jeff Smith, describes the comics every bit "a fish-out-of-water story. There are iii modern characters who happen to exist cartoons in the mold of Donald Duck or Bugs Bunny, and get lost in a fairy-tale valley. They spend a twelvemonth there and make friends and enemies, finding themselves caught up in the trials and tribulations of the valley, and even a war".

The series was published bimonthly with some delays from June 1991 to June 2004. The series was self-published past Smith's Cartoon Books for issues #1-20, past Epitome Comics from problems #21-27, and back to Cartoon Books for issues #28-55.

Bone has received numerous awards, amidst them ten Eisner Awards^{[ane] [two] [iii] [iv] [5]} and eleven Harvey Awards.^{[vi] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [thirteen] [xiv]}

In October 2019, Netflix announced the production of a Bone animated serial,^[xv] which was later canceled in April 2022.^[16]

Summary [edit]

The first book of the series (Bone: Out from Boneville) follows Fone Bone and his two cousins, Phoncible P. "Phoney" Bone and Smiley Bone. When Phoney'southward campaign for mayor goes amiss, Phoney is run out of their hometown of Boneville (Fone Os and Smiley helping him run away). After crossing a desert, Smiley finds a paw-drawn map that they employ to navigate their style across the fantasy mural. The cousins are separated by a sea of locusts and individually stop upwards in a mysterious valley. Their journey is fabricated more than difficult past the rat creatures that are pursuing them on their travels. Eventually, they joyously reunite at a local tavern called Barrelhaven, where they are taken in past a mysterious girl named Thorn and her even more than enigmatic grandmother. Fone Os instantly develops a crush on Thorn and repeatedly attempts to express his love through poesy. As they stay longer in the Valley, they encounter humans and other creatures who are threatened past a dark entity, the Lord of the Locusts. The Basic, trying to escape to Boneville, are quickly drawn into the events effectually them, compelling them on a hero's journey to help free the Valley.

The rest of the series is made upwards of similar quest stories, but with varying settings and plot lines. All of the comics maintain the elements of fantasy and humor that Smith employs in Out from Boneville,^[17] likewise as the intensity of an chance story.

Genre [edit]

The Os comics are a series of fictional graphic novels, that tells stories of mystery, romance and chance. Smith claims that the stories were non originally written for an adolescent audience; nevertheless, it is this age group that has supported the series well-nigh. The novels are written as fantasy stories, post-obit a hero on their quest. They are also meant to be read as a one-act, with elements of sarcasm and exaggeration.

Smith is the author of a few suspenseful mystery novels, simply he mainly produces graphic novels. Over the years he has published other graphic novels, written comics for DC Comics and created other comic book series. He is most famous, however, for Bone.^[18]

Analysis [edit]

The author and illustrator, Jeff Smith, fabricated the decision to create Os in the classic black-and-white comic book style. Critics speculate that he did this and then that he could maintain the clear lines that allow for exaggerated characters that contrast their subtle, detailed backgrounds.

The background of the story is mainly set in the Valley just Boneville is mentioned throughout. Boneville, although never actually shown, is implied as technologically contemporary: Fone refers to its extensive downtown and has comics for Smiley and a copy of Moby Dick in his pack, Phoney carries dollar bills, and Smiley refers to a PizzaInACup™ and a CornDogHut™. In contrast, the Valley is depicted as somewhat medieval, inasmuch equally its citizens employ a castling arrangement, weapons, and modes of transportation like to those of the Middle Ages, and Phoney persistently refers to the valley people as "yokels".

The series centers on the Bone cousins, baldheaded drawing characters. The group includes avaricious Phoncible P. "Phoney" Bone, goofy cigar-smoking Smiley Os, and everyman character Fone Bone. Smith describes the characters in the comics as "modern" even though they possess the "timeless task of combatting evil, in order that goodness may triumph".

The comics have place in a fantasy world. They are known for their adventurous story lines and their humor, but they are also said to take a "darker subtext about power and evil".^{[17] [19]}

Background [edit]

Jeff Smith, the creator of the serial, posing in 2011 at an upshot in New York

Author of the Bone comics, Jeff Smith, created the starting time sketch when he was most five years old, when he drew what looked like an old C-shaped telephone handset receiver. This original drawing, a frowning grapheme with its mouth wide open, resembled characteristics of Phoney Os, the grouchy cousin to Fone Os. In 1970, when Smith was 10, he began making these drawings into comics.^[20]

The comics had many major influences throughout their creation. For example, Smith tried to blueprint Bone structurally around Mark Twain'due south Huckleberry Finn. He enjoyed how it was a story which "start(due south) off very elementary, almost like children's stories... but every bit it goes on, it gets a little darker, and the themes get a little more than sophisticated and more circuitous". Smith was also taken by Carl Barks' character Scrooge McDuck. Smith said that he "ever wanted Uncle Scrooge to go on a longer take a chance. I idea, 'Man, if you could just get a comic book of that quality, the length of say, War and Peace, or The Odyssey or something, that would be something I would love to read, and even equally a kid I looked everywhere for that book, that Uncle Scrooge story that was i,100 pages long".^[21]

Other influences in this regard include the original Star Wars trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien'southward The Lord of the Rings and the classic fairy tales and mythologies that inspired those works. Moby Dick, Smith'due south favorite volume, is cited for its multi-layered narrative and symbolism, numerous references to information technology are placed throughout Bone.^[21] Os was also informed by other comics including Peanuts and Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo.^{[21] [22] [23]}

While Smith attended the Ohio State University, he created a comic strip called "Thorn" for the student newspaper, The Lantern, which included some of the characters who later featured in Os.^{[24] [25]}

After college, Smith and his friends produced blitheness work on committee in their studio, Grapheme Builders Inc., but Smith eventually came to determine that it was not the type of cartooning he wished to practise. Drawn to the idea that he could produce his own blithe-type story just in the comics medium, and convinced by Frank Miller'south The Nighttime Knight Returns and Art Spiegelman's Maus that a serious comic book with a get-go, middle and cease structure was both artistically and commercially feasible, Smith decided to produce Os.^[21]

In 1991, Smith launched his visitor, Drawing Books, to publish the serial.^[26] Initially, Smith self-published the book, which meant that he did all the piece of work required to both produce and distribute the series as a business himself, including answering messages, doing all the graphics and lettering (which he did by hand), sending the artwork to the printer, handling orders and bookkeeping. This made it hard to focus on writing and drawing the volume, and as a result, he fell behind in his production. To remedy this, he asked his wife, Vijaya, to quit her lucrative job at a Silicon Valley startup visitor to run the concern side of Os as the President of Cartoon Books. As a result, Smith was able to refocus on drawing, and sales improved.^[21] In 1995, Smith began publishing Bone through Prototype Comics. Smith believed this would be a temporary arrangement, and to maintain the book's place in catalogs, the collected volumes remained under the Drawing Books label.^[27] During the title's fourth dimension at Image, the first 27 problems were reprinted by Image with new covers, which are distinguished by the Paradigm logo in the upper left-mitt corner of the cover. The Cartoon Books printings take black back covers, inset with a single panel reprinted from inside. Showtime printings can be distinguished from later printings by changes in the color of the logo on the front encompass. The comic and its story ended with its 55th issue, dated June 2004. The dorsum cover has, in place of the usual comic panel, a black-and-white photo of Smith in his studio drawing the last page on May 10. In an interview on Assault of the Show, Smith revealed that he drew the last folio before working on the outset effect.^[28] The 55 bug accept been collected into the following volumes.

Publication history [edit]

Individual volumes [edit]

Book	Title	Original ed.	Colored ed.
1	Out from Boneville (originally released as The Consummate Os Adventures volume 1)	1991	2005
2	The Corking Cow Race (originally released every bit The Complete Bone Adventures book 2)	1995	2005
3	Eyes of the Storm (originally released, minus outcome 20, as The Complete Bone Adventures volume 3)	1996	2006
4	The Dragonslayer	1997	2006
5	Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Edge	1998	2007
6	Old Human being's Cavern	1999	2007
7	Ghost Circles	2001	2008
viii	Treasure Hunters	2002	2008
9	Crown of Horns	2004	2009

Other books published in the colour series but not function of the main storyline are the prequel Rose, illustrated by Charles Vess; the Bone Handbook; and Alpine Tales, which has a new story surrounding reprints of the Big Johnson Bone story, the Disney Adventures story, and a few new tales.

Issues from the Out from Boneville collection were also reprinted in the digest-sized children'south magazine Disney Adventures, outset in 1994 and later in 1997 through 1998.^[29] The issues ordinarily consisted of 7–9 pages a month and were colored. The pages were also censored to remove smoking and drinking references and whatever innuendo involving Thorn and Fone Os.^{[ commendation needed ]} There was also an sectional story for Disney Adventures by Smith, featuring Fone and Phoney following a "treasure map".

The series was split up into three-story arcs, each having two names, ane being the original arc name, the other being the name used in the ane volume edition, respectively as follows. The first arc lasted from problems #1–19 (volumes #i–three, June 1991 – August 1995) being named Vernal Equinox , or The Valley .^[thirty] It was the longest running arc (in terms of time) running for iv years and one month. The main story in outcome #13.five, "Up on the Roof", was reprinted as chapter six in The Great Cow Race nerveless edition, therefore making it part of Vernal Equinox. The second arc was named Solstice , or Phoney Strikes Back . The arc lasted from issues #20–37 (volumes #4–half dozen, October 1995 – Baronial 1999). It is tied as the longest running arc in issues with the third arc (lasting 19 issues). The third arc, Harvest or Friends & Enemies , lasted from issues #38–55 (volumes #7–nine, August 2000 – June 2004).

Colour editions [edit]

From Feb 2005 to January 2009, Scholastic Inc. (through its new Graphix imprint) began reissuing in both hardcover and paperback the individual volumes in full color by Steve Hamaker. In 2006, HarperCollins began publishing the full colour editions for the Uk market place.^[31]

In the color editions, the following changes were made:

• These editions correct some spelling errors, such as "kewpie-doll" for "cupie-doll" and "kowtow" for "cowtow".
• Some lines of dialogue were completely rewritten for these versions, and some story pages were added and others removed. 1 case of new textile in Optics of the Storm is Thorn and Fone in the garden talking about Ghost Circles. Four pages were excluded from the chat between Thorn, Gran'ma and Fone in The Dragonslayer. In Rock Jaw, the 2 rat creatures talk virtually Ghost Circles as well, which did not happen in the original issues and blackness-and-white paperbacks.
• Much of the dialogue on the remaining pages was edited as well, replaced with shorter lines.
• In the same book, the frames from the last pages were completely rearranged, and some of the original ones were removed.
• Similar (and smaller) additions were made as well to Onetime Man'due south Cave, Ghost Circles and Treasure Hunters.

The serial was also reprinted in color under HarperCollins Children'south Books, the fourth private reprinting for the offset iii volumes and the tertiary private reprinting for the terminal half-dozen volumes. The get-go three volumes accept been published in 2005, 2007, and 2009, respectively, though it is unclear whether the last six volumes will be reprinted.

One-volume edition [edit]

Cover art of Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Book

The special i,332-page, ane-volume edition (ISBN 1-888963-fourteen-X) was released originally for $40 (USD) through Jeff Smith'due south Drawing Books imprint in a paperback book. This special impress of the unabridged adventure was to celebrate the end of the series and the first of every collection in the series being reprinted in color through Scholastic Press. First released in 2004 and promoted as only a express print run being available, this edition has had several reprintings to keep information technology bachelor.

In addition to the one-volume paperback, a signed limited edition hardcover edition of the one-volume volume was issued. The palatial hardcover featured gold embossed lettering on the cover, gilded edges, and a cloth ribbon bookmark. The end pages are printed with a map of The Valley and it comes with a total-color signed and numbered bookplate. This limited edition pressing of the book originally sold for around $125 (USD) and was initially express to 2,000 copies. The series has been reprinted thirteen times, as well featuring a signed limited edition of the 13th pressing version sold during November 2009.

The collection won the 2005 Eisner Honor for Best Graphic Album-Reprint,^[32] and was listed at No. iii in Fourth dimension magazine's "Best Comix of 2004". Reviewer Andrew Arnold said of the drove, which was published at the determination of the monthly series: "As sweeping as the Lord of the Rings bicycle, but much funnier...Smith imbues even uncomplicated dialogue panels with animation. At present that it'southward finished Bone should join the ranks of Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter in the immature adult pantheon".^[33]

Total-colour, one-volume edition [edit]

In November 2011, for its 20th anniversary, a full-color, one-volume edition was released. It has a special section in the back with a cover gallery of the original comics, an illustrated timeline of Bone's 20-year history, and an essay by author Jeff Smith. A special edition was also released that included the book, a signed impress by Jeff Smith, a Phoney Bone gold coin, three pewter os figures of Fone Os, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, a copy of The Cartoonist documentary DVD, a miniature facsimile of the original Bone comic No. 1 and a large cerise box with a picture of Fone on it to concord it all.^[34]

Spin-offs and special i-shots [edit]

Spin-offs [edit]

Both prequels and sequels to the main storyline:

• Thorn: Tales from the Lantern : During higher, Jeff Smith produced a series of comic strips that serve as a beta-version of the Bone series, though with the Bone cousins Fone and Phoney as supporting cast members and Thorn as the principal character. The strips represent with the kickoff 28 problems of the Bone series, and was collected equally a trade paperback after Smith graduated in 1989. It sold but a thousand copies, and is currently out of impress. Information technology can still be found for sale online, however.
• Rose (with Charles Vess)
• Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails: The Adventures of Big Johnson Bone, Frontier Hero (with Tom Sniegoski and Stan Sakai)
• Bone: Tall Tales : The story shows Smiley and Bartleby subsequently the events in the main series. Information technology features them telling tall tales to 3 Hone brothers (Ringo, Bingo and Todd). It is a repackaging of Stupid, Stupid Rat Tales, including a Disney Adventures short and new material. It was released on August 1, 2010. This spin-off mainly focuses on Big Johnson Os'due south (antecedent to the Bone cousins) adventures, some time before the cousins' adventures in the Valley, though there is one short with Fone and Phoney follow a 'treasure map', which is afterwards revealed as a joke by Thorn, who wanted the two to do the laundry. One story with Big Johnson Os depicts his discovery of the Valley with his monkey, Pip. In Bone Vol. 7, Ghost Circles, Bartleby mentions that earlier Rat Creatures had "long, beautiful, hairless tails", which have to be cut off when the Rat Brute reaches one twelvemonth of historic period, out of fear that they will dragged away by their tails by a monster named Jekk. In Alpine Tales, the Jekk is revealed to be Big Johnson Bone, who swung them around by their tails when they attacked him, and due to this (and the fact the Queen and her son had their tails removed by Big Johnson) they decided to cut their tails so they could never exist used against them again. In this, the Regal Rat Creatures abound to be quite large, mayhap explaining Kingdok, the Rat Creature ruler, to be of such great size comparatively to the other Rat Creatures. The Cherry Dragon also appears in the story.^{[35] [36]}
• Bone Handbook is a 128-page handbook that chronicles the serial and is accompanied by sketches, interviews, etc. The book was released in February 2010.
• Bone: Legacy , a trilogy of illustrated prose novels, written by Tom Sniegoski, following the adventures of new Bones in their quest in the Valley. The get-go volume, Quest for the Spark, was released on February 1, 2011. A few of the characters from the original serial are in the story, such every bit the Two Stupid Rat Creatures and Roderick the Raccoon, from the 5th trade paperback drove, Stone Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border. Thorn Harvestar and Gran'ma Ben are likewise in the trilogy. And in the volume, the Bone cousins are mentioned in passing, though have no major role in the volume.^{[35] [37]} Role II: Quest for the Spark was released on February 1, 2012. The story continues from Role one against the Nacht, a night brute that puts most everyone in the Valley to sleep.^[38] Part III was released on February 1, 2013.^[39]

Special ane-shots [edit]

• Os: Holiday Special ("Hero" Premiere Edition, 1993, Warrior Publications, 14 pages)

This was a Hero Premiere Edition bundled with Hero Illustrated magazine. It includes a short story where the Bone cousins celebrate Winter Solstice, and also a Jeff Smith interview and sketches. It is featured in the Crown of Horns drove and the final outcome of the series.

• Os No. thirteen ½ (Jan 1995, Wizard, 28 pages)

This was a free comic book mail-in offering through Wizard magazine. As was likewise common with Sorcerer magazine comic offers, in that location was a special gold foil cover variant where the Bone title on the cover is embossed in gilded foil. It came in a rigid mylar sleeve and a document of authenticity. At that place is a short story that fits in betwixt No. 13 and 14 of the regular series, and is included in Os Vol. two: The Great Cow Race. This special also includes a Jeff Smith interview and sketches.

• Os Sourcebook (1995, Prototype Comics, xvi pages with wrap-around cover)

This was a free promotional book given out at 1995 San Diego Comic-con and it likewise polybagged with Wizard mag. This sourcebook was published to celebrate the motility of the Bone series from self-publishing to Image Comics, where it stayed for simply 7 issues before Jeff Smith took it dorsum to self-publishing.^[twoscore]

It includes an introduction by Jeff Smith & biography, character profiles, color poster by Jim Lee, story timeline, upcoming storyline, and shipping schedule.

• Bone No. 1 Tenth Anniversary Edition (2001, Drawing Books)

To gloat its 10-year anniversary, a special color edition of Os No. i was released with a gratuitous collectible Fone Bone PVC figure and a full color Phoney Os Gazillion dollar bill. This special edition included a new comprehend, a new afterword past Jeff Smith, and an illustrated eight-page commentary past comics historian R. C. Harvey, and the original artwork was digitally remastered in full color.

• Bone CODA (2016, Cartoon Books)

To celebrate its 25-twelvemonth ceremony, Drawing Books released Os: CODA, a 120-page graphic novel that includes a 32-folio brusk story featuring the Bone cousins returning to their home town of Boneville afterwards the events of the last issue of Bone series. [3][4]

Characters [edit]

Main characters [edit]

• Fone Bone: The hero of the series, Fone Bone is the most courageous of the Bones but also the youngest. He and his cousin Smiley Bone help their other cousin Phoney Os escape from Boneville later he upset the villagers, and get stuck in the Valley. He is passionate virtually his favorite book, Moby-Dick, and is the most level-headed and the smartest of the three Bone cousins. He has an unrequited beat out on Thorn Harvestar. Fone Bone is very wary of his cousin Phoney's schemes, and ever suspects him of something. The suspicion usually turns out right, and Fone is ofttimes angered by Phoney not seeming to care about the Valley (or the people in it), every bit Phoney constantly tries to exit to return to Boneville. After the Hooded One realizes Phoney Bone is not the person she needs to complete her ritual to revive Mim, the queen of the dragons, and realizes that Thorn is as well powerful for her to command, she then seeks Fone, for in Ghost Circles, Vol. 7 of the series, it is revealed that Fone has the Locust inside him too, which likely came from either his encounter in Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border, when he is knocked off a cliff, or in Former Man's Cave, when he rescues Thorn from the locusts by putting the Dragon Necklace on her. It is later taken out in Ghost Circles by Thorn, who takes it herself, considering she was told to by her dead female parent in a Ghost Circle. Fone remains unaware of this until Crown of Horns, when they try to destroy the locust by touching the sacred Crown of Horns. He saves the twenty-four hour period past touching the Crown of Horns while holding Thorn'due south mitt, who is incapacitated on the ground, stuck in Kingdok'due south jaws, whom she killed. There they are given a choice to live or die (there is a brilliant light, supposedly the afterlife/sky); both choose 'live'. Thorn and Fone are both given pieces of the Crown of Horns as teeth which were knocked out in a fight with Tarsil's followers. The teeth obviously cause rapid healing of their injuries.

His name is derived from Fonebone, the recurring surname that Don Martin gave to many of the characters that appeared in his Mad magazine strips.^[41] Wizard magazine ranked Fone Bone as the 28th-greatest comic book graphic symbol of all time.^[42] IGN likewise ranked Fone Bone as the 60th-greatest comic book hero of all fourth dimension, stating that "his good nature and his unrequited love for his ally Thorn make Fone the middle and soul of this fantastical volume."^[43]

• Phoncible P. "Phoney" Bone: Manipulative and greedy, Phoney Bone is the eldest and least courageous of the Bones and he will practice anything to get rich. Run out of Boneville by an angry mob of villagers later on trying to run for mayor of Boneville, his greediness and selfishness make an enemy of anyone who crosses him in the Valley. Referred to by the Hooded One as "The One Who Bears The Star" (due to the star on the T-shirt he wears), Phoney is sought later by the Rat Creature regular army though he does not know why (later it is revealed that the Hooded One erroneously believed a behemothic balloon of Phoney used in his campaign for mayor of Boneville that fell in her lair to exist an omen that Phoney could exist used to fulfill her agenda). Though he is selfish, he is very protective of his cousins when he needs to exist and shows he really cares almost them. For case, when he is approached past The Hooded One who proceeds to threaten Fone Bone, Phoncible becomes angry and warns The Hooded One to stay away from Fone. A monologue he delivers late in the serial reveals that his greed and selfishness are the effect of his having been forced to enhance Fone and Smiley afterwards they were orphaned, forcing him to resort to muddy schemes to provide for them. At the end of the series he finally displays a courageous side, actualization to retreat from the final battle simply to return with armed reinforcements; though they make it besides tardily he still claims to exist a hero.
• Smiley Bone: The tallest of the Bones, the middle cousin and arguably the least intelligent, he plays a one-cord instrument resembling a lute (but variously referred to throughout the series equally a "banjo" or "guitar"). Smiley is ofttimes seen smoking a cigar, and often irritates characters with his elementary-mindedness, even when seeking to help people, as when Lucius refers to Smiley'south aid as "torture".^{[ volume & effect needed ]} He takes kindly to a Rat Creature cub, whom he names Bartleby, and through his nurturing of Bartleby, depth is revealed in his character. When he and his cousins were children, Phoney made him steal pies off windowsills, considering he was the tallest, and apparently they were poor to the point where they could not beget food. Phoney mentions that when he became rich, Smiley made him pay everyone back. Phoney Os always employs Smiley in his scams, similar in the great cow race (The Great Moo-cow Race). Sometimes Smiley shows a penchant for intelligence, every bit when, in Bone Vol. 9 Crown of Horns, he devises a program during the siege of Atheia. The programme is to feed the 2 stupid Rat Creatures (whom Smiley captured every bit they tried to infiltrate the city) quiche, and so permit them go "accidentally", so the Rat Creatures would tell their leaders that Atheia could withstand the siege, nether the logic that if they could feed their prisoners quiche, they presumably accept plenty food to feed themselves making a siege hopeless. Smiley also has his serious, sad moments, as when, at the end of the story, he mourns Lucius, and expresses sadness at leaving the Valley.

Valley characters [edit]

Thorn Harvestar

Seemingly a uncomplicated subcontract daughter, information technology is soon revealed that she is heir to the throne of Atheia. She is besides a "Veni-Yan-Cari" (the awakened one), one who tin see into the "dreaming", a kind of parallel being, or "spirit globe". Thorn has excellent backbone every bit well as fantastic powers, such as escaping through a landslide blindfolded, flying, and jumping a castle wall without injuring herself. In a sense she tin can do anything if she can "concentrate her dreaming". Fone Bone falls in dearest with her at their first meeting. She starts off sweet and innocent, but afterwards in The Dragonslayer, when the seriousness and reality of everything dawns on her, she takes on a more than mature and tougher personality.

Rose "Gran'ma" Ben (born Rose Harvestar)

Thorn's grandmother, a tough-every bit-nails farmer who races against cows on foot every bit a hobby, and always wins. An immensely strong person, it is revealed that she is the quondam Queen of Atheia who escaped to Barrelhaven with Lucius Down to protect and safeguard Thorn.

Lucius Down

A big, gruff, older man who was described as over 7 feet tall and over 300 pounds. Lucius was so powerful he could scare even Euclid into submission. He runs the Barrelhaven Tavern, and was the foil for almost all of Phoney Bone's schemes. In the later books nosotros observe that Jonathan Oaks was similar a son to him. He was previously Helm of the Queen'southward guard and it was hinted he had a history with Gran'ma Ben, only to reveal later that he had 'picked the wrong daughter', instead falling in love with her sis, Briar, whose motive in the thing was to hurt Rose. He was subsequently in love with Rose Harvestar. Earlier the Rat Creatures destroy his tavern, he relocates to Erstwhile Man'due south cave, where he becomes Captain of an ill-equipped infantry of Barrelhaven farmers. After the volcano erupts, he leads the farmers and Veni Yan south, arriving in time for the battle on Sinner's Rock. When the Hooded One prepares to impale Rose, Lucius grabs onto her just equally she is destroyed; the resulting surge in power kills Lucius. His body is later taken north and buried behind the rebuilt Barrelhaven Tavern.

The Keen Cherry Dragon

The son of the great dragon Mim, The Great Red Dragon is often Fone Bone's last-minute savior. The Cherry-red Dragon appears when he is most needed. Gran'ma Ben does non trust him, regardless of how many times he has saved her or her friends from impairment. The Great Ruby Dragon seems to exist incredibly ancient. In a sequence that shows the land during the Dragons' reign, supposedly the beginning of time, the Great Red Dragon can be seen fighting Mim along with other dragons. As said in the prequel Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails, he is Mim's son and he was function of the group that trapped her in stone when the Valley was made. He took care of Thorn during the Swell State of war while Rose searched for a place for them to hide. He is likewise seen at the end of Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails during the time of Boneville'southward founding by Big Johnson Bone. Fone Bone indicates that he has a baritone voice.^[44]

The dragon itself does not appear to have a name, across "The Peachy Red Dragon". If he has one, it is unknown to anyone but himself.

Jonathan Oaks

A pocket-sized, often outspoken villager who works for Lucius at the Barrelhaven, and views Lucius as a hero. He was saved from an ambush from the rat creatures in Old Human's Cavern after being wounded severely. It was then thought/hinted largely that he did non survive the wounds in Ghost Circles, but in Treasure Hunters it is mentioned he possibly did survive.

Wendell

One of Lucius' tough "bar-room boys" and the tinsmith of Barrelhaven. Outspoken in the early bug (he and Euclid take more than one time threatened to trounce Phoney Bone), he becomes more than introverted once the reality of the war presents itself. He often changes sides and his mind. He goes from hating the Bones and stick-eaters to following them, then hating the Basic again. He seems to be a powerful ally to have in his village and is often followed past the villagers when he changes sides. Despite his skinny appearance, he is implied to be only as strong as Euclid.

Euclid

Along with Jonathan and Wendell, 1 of the "bar-room boys". He is depicted as very large and muscular, and ofttimes wishes to resort to physical force to solve bug. He is consumed by a ghost circumvolve later the volcano explosion, but returns after Thorn destroys the ghost circles.

Rory

A third bar-room boy. Is almost always present virtually Wendell, Euclid, and Jonathan, but rarely speaks. None of his comments requite much of a hint to his personality. It is implied that he is a total follower with little or no influence.

Ted

A helpful Acanalonia bivittata, or planthopper, who appears equally a recurring supporting grapheme. Often mistaken for a leaf, Ted is the start animate being Fone Bone encounters when he enters the valley and the two get fast friends. He harbors a strange link to the Scarlet Dragon and has an older brother who is several hundred times his size. He is able to perform magical enchantments and has the ability to detect Ghost Circles.

Miss Possum

A female opossum who is the mother to the iii possum kids, she is besides a caring, motherly effigy to everyone in the valley. She oftentimes has something to give to Fone Bone when she sees him, such as sealing putty, which Fone mistakenly eats a little of.

The Possum Kids

Three immature opossums with a thirst for hazard. They have a knack for getting into trouble which and then Fone Bone saves them from, but they are resourceful and cunning, and play a significant function in Stone Jaw. The possums look suspiciously like Pogo the possum from Walt Kelly's comic strip.

Mountain creatures [edit]

The Hooded One (Briar Harvestar)

Servant of the Lord of the Locusts, Kingdok's superior, and the chief adversary. It is unsaid that The Hooded 1 is a former Veni Yan warrior, as she wears a similar robe and hood. Information technology is afterward revealed that the Hooded One is Briar Harvestar, the elder sis of Gran'ma Ben and the grand-aunt of Thorn. It is heavily implied that her animosity is based on nothing more than jealousy of Rose, who was apparently her mom'south favorite between the two and had the affection of Lucius. When the Rat Creatures invaded in the great war, she betrayed the Royal family by showing the Rat Creatures the cloak-and-dagger escape passage Thorn had used to escape the palace. When the King, Thorn's father, learned of this betrayal, he cut her in half with an abandoned harvesting scythe, which the Hooded 1 at present carries as a weapon that can now cut through steel and rock. Briar was possessed and resurrected by a swarm of locusts. She is killed when her primary, the Lord of the Locusts, is destroyed. It is suggested by some of her actions throughout the storyline that existence the servant of the Lord of the Locusts drove her insane.

Kingdok

A behemothic rat animal, ruler of the horde of rat creatures and lackey of the Lord of the Locusts. Although he is ego-maniacal and savage, he is decumbent to superstition and easily manipulated by The Hooded 1. He carries a gold spiked club around with him, until Thorn cuts off his right arm. Roque Ja at one betoken attacks Kingdok and rips out his tongue, which he keeps every bit a bays. A possible continuity fault is that while Roque Ja is bragging about owning the tongue, Kingdok cannot speak, just later speaks clearly to the Hooded One; after that, he attempts to say "impale you", and information technology comes out "gill yoo", just as i would speak without a tongue. This may be an effect of the Hooded I'due south power; while the Hooded One is alive he can speak, merely after she is destroyed he cannot. Afterwards, Kingdok spends well-nigh of his time lumbering most underground to accomplish the Crown of Horns. At the end of the novel, he faces Thorn before she tin affect the Crown of Horns. Having been stripped of his authority, nobility, and physical health over the course of the series, he demands that Thorn face him in a life or decease battle. He reveals that he had been the one to kill her parents by eating them, and proceeds to bite Thorn's leg when she tries to get around him. He dies when Thorn stabs him presently thereafter.

Fone Os's Two Rat Creatures

Two rat creature soldiers, one bluish, one chocolate-brown, who have a particular interest in devouring the Bone cousins, and Fone Os in detail. The two are rather incompetent, once deserting the army afterwards their disobedience costs Kingdok his arm and later allying with the Bones briefly before returning to their own side. They address each other as "comrade". Fone Os is the ane who dubs the two "Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures", most normally when they are hanging off the side of a cliff. Occasionally other characters besides refer to them as such. Fone Bone is also unremarkably credited with coining the term "Rat Creatures" itself; withal, he actually got the name from the possum kids. In Rat Creature tradition only royalty are allowed to take names, but in the spin-off novels "Quest for the Spark" two young Bones gave them the names "Stinky" and "Smelly".

Equally it stands, the proper name of their species appears to be Hairy Men. Named after some incidents where one, or both, clearly emphasize their championship, they in turn call Fone Bone "Small Mammal". In a running gag throughout the series, the brown rat creature often suggests cooking Fone Os in a quiche. The other rat creature and then flies into a rage, insisting that 'squeamish pastry foods' are 'unfit for monsters', and that they should eat him in a stew—though he did once in a fit of acrimony declare an intention of eating Fone Bone raw, and on another occasion, when they were starving, told his comrade that he would not listen some of his domicile-made quiche. Afterward, Fone Bone himself delivered to the 2 some 'piping hot quiche' when he found them shivering in a bush-league after the Hooded One's defeat. They also accept a major role in Quest for the Spark.

Bartleby

A purplish infant rat animate being establish by Fone Bone and adopted as a pet by Smiley Bone (who also gave him his proper noun). After the Basic' starting time run into with Roque Ja, Bartleby returns to the fold of the Rat Creatures, though is out of identify there and returns to the Bones afterward after growing a little. He became a good friend to Smiley and when they left for Boneville, he went with them. Bartleby was named by Shaenon K. Garrity,^[45] for the championship character in the curt story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville. Unlike the other Rat Creatures, Bartleby has circular ears. He explains that the Rat Creatures are supposed to get their ears cropped and that he ran abroad before they could exercise that to him. Bartleby as well explains that the get-go time he ran away from the Rat Creatures was subsequently he got his tail chopped off. He states that all Rat Creatures are born with beautiful, long, hairless tails, merely all the Rat Creature cubs have their tails chopped off around the time they turn ane year onetime. This is due to their belief that a sort of boogie man named 'The Jekk' volition drag them abroad in their sleep by their tails. In the prequel volume Stupid, Stupid, Rat-Tails, we larn that the Bone cousins' forefather 'Big Johnson Bone' is the fabled boogie man they fear, having come to the Valley hundreds of years before and fighting the Rat Creatures by swinging them around past their tails. In a sequence depicting the state during the Dragons' rule, Rat Creatures with long tails can exist seen in the altitude.

Roque Ja (Rock Jaw)

A huge mount lion and an adversary to Kingdok who views himself as neutral in the conflict betwixt the humans and the Lord of the Locusts despite lopsided affiliations. He is the guardian of the Eastern Border. His personal views are that there is no such thing as "good" and "evil", only that ability matters above all and that friendship and love are meaningless. He despises both Dragons and Rat Creatures but works for the Hooded One in substitution for country and spoils of war. His name is mispronounced every bit 'Rock Jaw' by the Bone cousins. His size also varies in the books sometimes being smaller than Kingdok to being large plenty to fill a huge gap in the mountain side.

Roderick and the Orphans

Roderick is a young raccoon whose parents were killed and eaten by the two stupid rat creatures. He is the leader of a big group of orphaned brute children living in the mountains. Roderick is the only i named, and the complete group consists of a beaver, a boar, a 2nd raccoon, two birds, a rabbit, a porcupine, a turtle, 2 snakes, a squirrel, and a chipmunk. Roderick the Raccoon is a principal character in the Quest for the Spark, though he is now older and friends with Tom Elm, some other chief character in the trilogy.

King Agak

The new Rat Creature male monarch in Os: Legacy, who replaces Kingdok following the latter's death. Like Kingdok, he hates the two Stupid Rat Creatures. After the duo steal a dead squirrel from him, he becomes obsessed with revenge. Agak and his army are starving, and are convinced that they tin can cure their hunger past eating the Bones.

Others [edit]

The Lord of the Locusts

The unseen night lord who serves as the source of all conflict in the series. He is an evil, formless "nightmare" trapped within a mount, and appears in the form of a locust swarm to his henchmen and followers. He is powerless on his own, and relies on possessing others in order to accomplish his goals. He is even capable of reviving the expressionless, seen primarily with Briar. He is killed when Fone Bone and Thorn, begetting a piece of the Locust themselves in their souls, touched the Crown of Horns.

Mim

The benevolent queen of the dragons, considered to be the creator of the valley. She kept the earth in rest past putting her tail into her oral fissure so that her trunk forms a circle, and perpetually spinning, until she was possessed by the Lord of the Locusts, turning her irrational and violent. The other dragons were forced to turn her to stone to seal the Lord of the Locusts. Her enkindling was said to be the terminate of the world, but when the Lord of the Locusts was destroyed, an anile Mim returned to her function followed past all of the other Dragons besides the Neat Crimson Dragon.

The Veni Yan ("stick-eaters")

A mysterious clan of hooded warriors, who respect dragons as the supreme rulers of the land. Distrusted by the townsfolk (who came up with the derogatory term "stick-eater") but trusted by Lucius, though oftentimes they do not trust him in return. They are loyal to the royal family unit fifty-fifty after Grandma Ben and Thorn went into exile and immediately recognizes Rose's authority upon her return to the capital. For much of the series, they serve as a channel of communication between the capital, Lucius, Grandma Ben, and Thorn.

Headmaster

The leader of the Venu and most powerful soldier. He is distinguished with a fur vest with statuary tokens. In the serial, two appear. The first is the current i who has a feeling that the world is catastrophe. The second i is retired in the city of Atheia and is the headmaster that appears in "Rose".

Tarsil

The ruthless leader of the Vedu. He is missing an arm and has a large scar downwards the length of his face up, injuries he claims to have obtained while fighting dragons. He wears a large earring on one ear, and his beard in two separate parts each wrapped in a piece of cloth. He does not respect the monarchy of Aethia claiming that the throne is dead, even when Rose and Thorn render. He is killed by Briar in front of his own people, effectively ending his rule.

The Vedu

A separatist group of Veni Yan who are led by Tarsil. Although they wear like hoods to the Veni Yan they are distinguishable by the eye on their hoods. The Vedu practise not worship, or even respect, dragons, challenge that they have all gone into hiding or are uncaring enough to ignore their people. They have kept lodge in Aethia for much of the time that Rose and Thorn were in exile, and claim that things are better that way. However, some people disagree and continue to ready out dragon shrines, which are forcibly removed past the Vedu.

Reception [edit]

Disquisitional praise [edit]

Bone had only six issues published when information technology was selected for "Palmer's Picks" by Tom Palmer, Jr., who commented that "Smith's artwork is deceptively uncomplicated. He doesn't utilise much flash, yet he is a principal of carrying gesture and body language for both humorous and dramatic issue". He also noted that "the serial has only recently begun, still it has been met with enormous amounts of disquisitional praise from people ranging from Will Eisner to Peter David".^[46]

Michael Arner from PopMatters.com was initially non impressed with the black and white artwork, and at kickoff disappointed at the ending, hoping for a more than conclusive dénouement. However, he ultimately praised the depth of the characterizations and Smith's ability to mix humor and hazard as perfect.^[47]

Bob's Comics Review described the piece of work as "Tolkienesque" in its compulsive progression from a uncomplicated comic tale to a sprawling ballsy. Although critical of the earlier issues, the writer came to savor the range of writing "from slapstick (the moo-cow race is a classic), to the scary yet hilarious rat creatures, to intimations of high fantasy". Smith's sense of timing was praised besides as the creator's use of the silent panel and "repeated scene with variations of movement or perspective".^[48]

In 2004, TIME critic Andrew Arnold chosen Os "the best all-ages graphic novel yet published".^[49]

In 2011, IGN ranked Os 60th in the Acme 100 comic book heroes.

Literary controversy [edit]

In 2010, a Minnesota parent sought to have Bone banned from all elementary school libraries in the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District, citing references in the work to smoking, drinking, and gambling. After a hearing, a school district committee voted 10 to 1 to keep the books on the shelves.^{[50] [51]} Other challenges and controversies that cite racism and political viewpoint every bit principal issues have led to Os'southward placement on the 2013 ALA Banned Books List.^[52] Smith remarked himself that "Bone was not originally created with children in heed, so I never worried about the fact that children might read them". This beingness said, the comics are regarded by critics as applicable to any age group.

The fact that Bone comics are graphic novels as well retains criticism. While Smith defends the graphic novel as an fine art course, and explains how the graphics have the potential to add new elements to a storyline, many critics and readers^{[ who? ]} do not consider them a serious form of literature.

Awards [edit]

• 1993 Russ Manning Award for Almost Promising Newcomer
• 1993 Eisner Award for All-time Sense of humor Publication^[1]
• 1994 Eisner Laurels for Best Serialized Story: "The Bang-up Cow Race"; Os #7–xi
• 1994 Eisner Honor for Best Standing Series
• 1994 Eisner Award for All-time Writer/Creative person: Jeff Smith
• 1994 Eisner Accolade for Best Sense of humour Publication^[two]
• 1995 Eisner Award for Best Sense of humor Publication
• 1995 Eisner Award for Best Writer/Creative person: Humor: Jeff Smith
• 1995 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Serial^[iii]
• 1998 Eisner Award for All-time Writer/Artist: Humor: Jeff Smith^[4]
• 2005 Eisner Honor for Best Graphic Anthology: Reprint: Os 1 Volume Edition ^[5]
• 1994 Harvey Award for All-time Cartoonist (Author/Artist): Jeff Smith
• 1994 Harvey Award Special Award for Humor: Jeff Smith
• 1994 Harvey Award for Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work: The Complete Bone Adventures; reissued in color equally Bone: Out from Boneville (Scholastic Corporation)^[6]
• 1995 Harvey Honour for Best Cartoonist (Writer/Creative person): Jeff Smith^[seven]
• 1996 Harvey Award for All-time Cartoonist (Writer/Artist): Jeff Smith^[8]
• 1997 Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist (Writer/Creative person): Jeff Smith^[ix]
• 1999 Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist (Author/Creative person): Jeff Smith, for his body of work in 1998, including Bone ^[ten]
• 2000 Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist (Writer/Creative person): Jeff Smith^[11]
• 2003 Harvey Award for Best Cartoonist (Writer/Artist): Jeff Smith^[12]
• 2005 Harvey Honour for Best Cartoonist (Author/Artist): Jeff Smith
• 2005 Harvey Award for All-time Graphic Album of Previously Published Work: Bone: 1 Book Edition ^[13]

Nominations

• 1993 Eisner Laurels for Best Author/Creative person: Jeff Smith^[i]
• 1995 Eisner Honor for All-time Single Issue: Os #sixteen: "Eyes of the Tempest"
• 1995 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Detail: Os figurine, sculpted by Jeff Smith and Randy Bowen^[iii]
• 1996 Eisner Honor for Best Title for Younger Readers^[53]
• 1998 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series
• 1998 Eisner Award for All-time Comics-Related Product: Os Red Dragon cold-cast statue, sculpted past Randy Bowen, based on designs by Jeff Smith
• 1998 Eisner Accolade for All-time Comics Publication for a Younger Audience^[4]
• 1999 Eisner Honour for All-time Comics-Related Production/Item: Phoney Bone inflatable^[ten]
• 2003 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album Reprint: Bone vol. 8: Treasure Hunters ^[12]
• 2004 Eisner Honor for Best Writer/Artist: Humor: Jeff Smith^[54]
• 2005 Eisner Award for Best Comics Publication for a Younger Audience^[5]
• 2006 Eisner Award for All-time Coloring: Steve Hamaker, Bone: The Great Cow Race ^[55]
• 2008 Eisner Award for Best Coloring: Steve Hamaker, Bone (vols. 5 and 6) and Shazam: Monster Society of Evil ^[56]

Other media [edit]

Canceled films and blithe serial [edit]

In the belatedly 1990s, an endeavor was made past Nickelodeon Movies to produce a film adaptation of Bone. Jeff Smith said in a 2003 interview that Nickelodeon wanted the Bone cousins to exist voiced past child actors, and wanted the movie's soundtrack to include popular songs by the likes of NSYNC; Smith was critical of this proposal.^[57]

In March 2008, Warner Bros. Pictures bought the picture show rights to the series.^[58] Smith's website confirmed on March 13 that he had made a deal with Warner Bros. to adapt the Bone saga into a film serial.^[59] Further information was given in July 2011, citing that "2 scripts have already been written and rejected—a third is currently in the works and will most likely yield three separate, computer-blithe, 3-D films".^[threescore] In Jan 2012, Patrick Sean Smith, the creator of TV series Greek, was hired to write an adaptation, and that P. J. Hogan was attached to direct the feature, to be produced by Lin Pictures and Beast Logic.^[61] In November 2016, Mark Osborne had been hired to direct the animated adaptation for Warner Animation Group. Osborne, along with Adam Kline, were ready to write the film, which would have been the first in a planned trilogy.^[62]

In October 2019, the project was picked up by Netflix for an animated series after Warner's turnaround the project.^[15] All the same, in April 2022, production on the series was canceled during a reorganization of Netflix Blitheness.^[63]

Action figures [edit]

In 1996, the toy manufacturer Resaurus released Serial One of a Bone action figure line, featuring: Fone Os with Rat Cub, Thorn, Smiley Os, and Rat Creature. Five years later, a 2nd line was released with Gran'ma Ben, Phoney Bone, The Hooded One, and a deluxe boxed set of Kingdok. Two exclusive figures were released through the toy and comic magazine Previews: Hooded One (glow in the dark), and Phoney Bone as Ahab. Most recently, in 2007, "Dark Horse Comics Presents" released a five-inch-high (130 mm) statue of Fone Bone, which is express to 750 pieces and to be sold through Wizard magazine.

Video games [edit]

In 2005, video game studio Telltale Games developed an episodic adventure game series based on the comic. While five episodes were planned, only two were ultimately released.^[64] The commencement episode, Os: Out from Boneville, was released on September xv, 2005, and the second, The Groovy Cow Race, on April 12, 2006. Both were available in downloaded or boxed form on Telltale's website for Windows-based PCs. The games were too available via Steam, but were delisted following Telltale's closure.

Novels [edit]

Bone: Legacy is a sequel trilogy of novels following the adventures of new Bones in their quest in the Valley. The first installment, Office I: Quest for the Spark, was released on February 1, 2011. The 2d installment, Part Ii: Quest for the Spark, was released on February 1, 2012.^[38] The 3rd and final installment to the trilogy, Part 3: Quest for the Spark, was released on February 1, 2013.

See likewise [edit]

• Indie comics

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External links [edit]

• Boneville.com – official Bone site
• Bone at Don Markstein'south Toonopedia. Archived from the original on February 22, 2018.

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