Jeff Smith, Author . Cartoon Books $12 (111p) ISBN 978-1-888963-20-5
The debut volume of Bone
creator Smith’s new series is distinctly not for kids, but its gripping images and swift pacing are as impressive as anything he’s done. In its first two chapters we meet Rasl, an art thief who’s mixed up...
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Jeff Smith, Author University of Wisconsin Press $26.95 (391p) ISBN 978-0-299-23184-2
American culture scholar and former political reporter Smith argues that the highest political post in the land ""could not exist without first being imagined""; here, he examines how the Presidency has been imagined and re-imagined through fiction...
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Jeff Smith, Author, Charles Vess, Illustrator . Scholastic $10.99 (138p) ISBN 978-0-545-13543-6
Every good epic not only deserves but needs
a prequel. So Jeff Smith's Bone
, one of the great graphic novel epics, gets a teasing look at what happened in that magic realm before the series started in earnest. Opening with a Nordic saga-like...
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Jeff Smith, Author, Jeff Smith, Illustrator . RAW Junior/Toon Books $12.95 (31p) ISBN 978-1-935179-01-6
Smith's (the Bone series) crisply drafted style smoothly fuses graphic novel and picture book. Excited about Mama's invitation to go to the barn (“If we're good
, Mama will let us swim in the cow's water!”), Little...
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Jeff Smith, Author, Jeff Smith, Illustrator . Scholastic/Graphix $26.95 (138p) ISBN 978-0-439-70623-0
O'Donnell, provost at Georgetown University and editor of the definitive edition of Augustine's Confessions
, is admirably qualified to chronicle the life of the man who wrote history's most famous autobiography. But in this book,...
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Jeff Smith, Author, Jeff Smith, Illustrator . Scholastic/Graphix $18.95 (138p) ISBN 978-0-439-70640-7
The nine-volume Bone
graphic novel series was the toast of the comics world when it was published by Smith's own Cartoon Books beginning in the early 1990s; in this first volume of Scholastic's new edition, the original b&w art has been
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Jeff Smith, Author, Jeff Smith, Illustrator, Steve Hamaker, Other . DC Comics $29.99 (206p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1466-1
Captain Marvel returns in a new incarnation, aimed at a younger audience, by Smith, the award-winning creator of Bone. Billy Batson, a young orphan living in a condemned building, follows a mysterious figure into the subway one day and is taken to a
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Jeff Smith, Author . Scholastic/Graphix $19.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-439-70631-5
In this ninth and final volume of Smith's award-winning Bone
series, Thorn and her loyal friends must defeat not only the evil Briar Rose but also free the land and its inhabitants from the Locust spirit. Beaten by tyrant Tarsil's...
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Jeff Smith, Author, Brenda Smith, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (525p) ISBN 978-0-688-07589-7
Having tackled cooking with wine ( The Frugal Gourmet Cooks with Wine ) and American food ( The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American ), TV chef and Methodist minister Smith now cheerfully brings ancient Chinese, Greek and Roman cookery down to earth. Much...
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Jeff Smith. Graphix, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-545-67477-5
Smiley, one of the three cousins from Smith’s comic saga Bone rescues a colorful flock of birds in this vividly drawn tale. Enjoying a stroll through the woods, Smiley hears songbirds singing and begins to count them. One purple bird sports a...
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Jeff Smith. Graphix, $22.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-338-62067-2
Adding to the Bone universe, Smith offers two short comics stories bursting with personality. The first, “Finders Keepers,” features the three Bone boys daydreaming on a curb. Responsible Fone Bone dreams of an apple, sly Phoney Bone fantasizes of...
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Jeff Smith. Cartoon Books, $20 trade paper (162p) ISBN 978-1-888963-75-5
Smith (Bone) goes prehistoric in this fabulously drawn anthropological fantasy. Two million years ago, he imagines, multiple humanoid species coexist, from the diminutive Pithecine “Pithies” to looming, gorilla-like giants, but the balance of nature
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Jeff Smith. Cartoon Books, $30 trade paper (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,...
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