Jeff Smith Planned to Write Bone Comics Since Age 9 July 20, 2005
Jeff Smith, the author of the Bone comics, was recently
interviewed on G4TV about his popular comics. Bone tells
the story of three cartoon characters that get lost in a Lord of the Ring and Star Wars type of fantasy setting and have adventures. In the interview, Smith said that he had always wanted to write the comic books since he was nine. When he finally convinced his wife to let him give the project a try she gave just one year to make it work. Smith also said that
he wrote the very last page of the story first and kept it in a file. When he came to the end of the story -- after thirteen years of writing the comic books -- he simply took the last page out of the file and was able to use it without making any major changes.
Bone was originally published as a comic book series but last year
it was published as a 1,300 page black-and-white paperback book.
The paperback was so popular that Scholastic is now re-issuing
Bone as a seven-part color series starting with Bone#1: Out From Boneville. More about Jeff Smith
and the Bone comics can be found at Boneville.com.
Jeff Smith, the author of the Bone comics, was recently
interviewed on G4TV about his popular comics. Bone tells
the story of three cartoon characters that get lost in a Lord of the Ring and Star Wars type of fantasy setting and have adventures. In the interview, Smith said that he had always wanted to write the comic books since he was nine. When he finally convinced his wife to let him give the project a try she gave just one year to make it work. Smith also said that
he wrote the very last page of the story first and kept it in a file. When he came to the end of the story -- after thirteen years of writing the comic books -- he simply took the last page out of the file and was able to use it without making any major changes.
