Eventually, they joyously reunite at a local tavern called Barrelhaven, where they are taken in by a mysterious girl named Thorn and her even more enigmatic grandmother. Their journey is made more difficult by the rat creatures that are pursuing them on their travels.
The cousins are separated by a sea of locusts and individually end up in a mysterious valley. After crossing a desert, Smiley finds a hand-drawn map that they use to navigate their way across the fantasy landscape. When Phoney's campaign for mayor goes awry, Phoney is run out of their hometown of Boneville (Fone Bone and Smiley helping him run away). The first volume of the series ( Bone: Out from Boneville) follows Fone Bone and his two cousins, Phoncible P. They spend a year there and make friends and enemies, finding themselves caught up in the trials and tribulations of the valley, and even a war".īone has received numerous awards, among them ten Eisner Awards and eleven Harvey Awards. There are three modern characters who happen to be cartoons in the mold of Donald Duck or Bugs Bunny, and get lost in a fairy-tale valley. The author, Jeff Smith, describes the comics as "a fish-out-of-water story. Smith's black-and-white drawings, inspired by animated cartoons and comic strips, are singularly characterized by a mixture of both light-hearted comedy and dark fantasy thriller.
The series was self-published by Smith's Cartoon Books for issues #1-20, by Image Comics from issues #21-27, and back to Cartoon Books for issues #28-55. The Bone cousins (Fone Bone, Phoney Bone & Smiley Bone)īone is an American independently-published graphic novel series, written and illustrated by Jeff Smith, originally serialized in 55 irregularly released issues from 1991 to 2004.
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