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BONE AND ROTTMNT MY TWO BIGGEST INTERESTS OH MY GOD
Oh this was so much fun. Here's the first Draw the Squad! Thanks to @funneylizzie for this amazing drawing meme!
the Mad Dogz. What can I say? This is my favorite cartoon, and the reason why I decided to fully pursue animation as a career. I don't really watch much anime, so Rise was the first time I saw action scenes done like that. It was genuinely eye opening, and I love every bit of it. It was also my introduction to TMNT as a whole! So in between waiting for new episodes, I binged 2012, some of 2003, and the 2007 movie. Donnie is best boy, change my mind.
At this point, including the Mario bros is a no-brainer. Literally the game franchise of my childhood. Grew up on the Wii and the Super Show (as well as one copy of Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3 that my family got a few times from redbox) I hadn't initially planned on Wario and Waluigi, but I was convinced by you guys :) And it's kind of fitting, because two of my sister's main as them in Mario party for the sole reason being "they look funny"
Bone!! This was my introduction into graphic novels. I think I was 8 or 9 when I picked up a volume for the first time and immediately fell in love. It got to the point where every time I visited the library I would have a different book on rotation. I was kind of obsessed. My favorite volume was #7 Ghost Circles simply because that seemed to be the part where all the characters were back together and crap got real. The bit where Phoney tells Fone Bone that he's the actual reason that everyone is in danger? That's ingrained in my brain for life. It's my favorite scene in the series. And it's inspired me so so much in how I write. Jeff Smith, you're my hero. (Phoney Bone is my favorite character, and kind of kicked off my love for the grumpy, miserable, scheming, greedy person who loves their family archetype)
Team Chaotix! (Extended edition, from the Archie comics.) So, Bone is like a comfort that I've always fallen back to. The Sonic Archie comics was a 4-year long obsession that would not go away. I read every. single. issue. How? People uploaded them on youtube. I was 9, and didn't even know what piracy was. Ian Flynn and Tracy Yardley was a godsend to the series, and Evan Stanley became one of my favorite artists (go read Ghosts of the Future!) There are hundreds of characters in this series, but the Chaotix are the ones that just stay consistently good. And they have so many great arcs, especially in Sonic Universe! It's hard to pick a favorite, they're all fantastic. (Screw you, Ken Penders :))
The Trio Squad will be next! OG Template under the cut ;)
Extremely hyped about this
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NYT Bestselling Author Jeff Smith Returns to his Roots With a New Collection of His THORN College Strips to Launch in October Kickstarter
Columbus, OH – July 18, 2023: Cartoon Books announces THORN: The Complete Proto-BONE College Strips from 1982 to 1986, And Other Early Drawings, reprinting the entire run of his earliest rendering of the world-famous BONE characters for the first time. And if Smith had his way, it might not have happened.
“Talking Jeff into this book wasn’t easy, but fans have been asking us for years.” explains Cartoon Books Publisher Vijaya Iyer, Smith’s partner.
“I confess I was a hard sell at first,” says cartoonist Smith, “Talk of reprinting the THORN comics has always been a non-starter for me. I didn’t think they were very good. In fact, I had an unshakable idea that they were terrible. But when I read them for the first time in over 40 years, I was surprised to find I enjoyed them! It’s fun to see these stories and know they eventually evolved into BONE.”
The comic strips reveal an early version of BONE called THORN that was written for a college audience in the 1980s. THORN appeared five days a week in the pages of The Ohio State University’s student newspaper The Lantern. A few were reprinted in a self-published 1983 book called THORN: Tales from The Lantern. Another small selection was published in 2008’s limited edition fundraiser for OSU’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum called Before BONE. Both books are long out of print and sell at collector’s prices. There has never been an official, complete run published until now.
This beautiful edition includes plenty of bonus material such as recently discovered early drawings of the BONEcharacters, essays and interviews.
THORN: The Complete College Strips, will be published in both hardcover and mass market paperback. It will launch on Kickstarter this October for release in Spring of 2024.
About Jeff Smith: Jeff Smith is the award-winning author best known for his self-published BONE comic book series that was later picked to launch Scholastic’s YA graphic novel imprint, Graphix. Other works by Smith included RASL, SHAZAM: Monster Society of Evil, TUKI, and the forthcoming BONE: More Tall Tales.
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So i got into bone-