#Jeff smith

[middlering]

My favorite genre of self-portrait is cartoonists being bothered by their characters while trying to draw

Bill Watterson – Calvin and Hobbes (1986)

Hergé – Tintin (1947, Tintin Magazine)

Albert Uderzo – Asterix (the cover of Uderzo l'Irreductible (2018), but originally much older)

Jeff Smith – Bone (1993, Bone Holiday Special)

Walt Kelly – Pogo (1950, Maclean's Magazine)

And a bonus:

Berkeley Breathed – Bloom County

[joleneghoul]

Booster Gold & Time Masters - Scars

YEP, we're bringing back conceptual comic edits. Something, something, you're doomed to make the same mistakes as your father in your mid 20s. IDK.

[milowing]

[vertigoartgore]

Countdown to Avengers #800/34 (2026) : 1999's Avengers Forever Vol.1 #4 Time Sphinx variant cover by artist Jeff Smith and colorist Steve Oliff.

[spicy-apple-pie]

Okay, more of spicy trying to get you guys into Bone more. I’m sorry okay?

I love Phoney Bone so much man. He reminds me of grunkle Stan in that he’s a total sham, but you threaten his family and he’s going mask off. Like he might act aloof and uncaring, but he wouldn’t hesitate to put his cousins first in every situation.

And I have this headcanon that Phoney is so stingy with money because he had to take care of Fone and Smiley. He’s the oldest and all of their parents died when they were young. So I think he didn’t start out with much, that he always had to keep looking for more money to keep them afloat. So even when he becomes the richest bone in boneville, he’s still looking for more. It’s almost ingrained into him. Because he doesn’t know when he might be out of money.

Please validate me!! I know that I’m overthinking this, but I don’t care.

[colleendoran]

Timeline cleanser.

A hug with Jeff Smith.

[tawked]

Bone, Jeff Smith.

It's amazing how easy it is to avoid the "always evil species" trope and the problems that come with it by just exploring the evil species' culture for a second.

The rat creatures are violent weirdos who do not at all operate on a human scale of morality, but Smith doesn't make them automatically evil by birth, he provides a window into how their culture raises its children as well as the forces that define that culture such that the reader can see, hm! If these issues were addressed and if they were removed from that context, the rat men would likely not be evil! Likewise, through the brief little arc where Phoney Bone rallies all the humans of the valley up into a racist mob and attempts to lynch the Red Dragon, as well as the various Bones' fish out of water reactions to cultural staples of the valley like belief in the Dreaming, we see that no one is racially impervious to evil and that worldview is rooted in something other than simply being a "Man of the East" or an Uruk Hai or whatever.

It's like a much smarter version of Game of Thrones' cultural relativist approach to worldbuilding, and I say that purely because Smith often places empathy and concern for others in one's community at the forefront of how he writes his characters (even the early antagonists, the Two Stupid Rat Things, are easy to empathize with in their abuse under their leader, Kingdok). Other fantasy works that similarly reject biological or a priori by race morality in the fantasy genre kind of trend toward cynicism and cruelty as the norm, especially when portraying medieval European adjacent cultures, due to the weird belief that empathy was invented in 1894 by Lord Hudson Feelsforothers and before that everybody was just a witch-burning hater 24/7.

[coolmaycroft]

It took me years to finish bone because I'd read a volume and then a couple of years would go by before I got another volume. I was a student and I didn't have the money to buy comics regularly.

But it was weird when Gravity Falls came along and I was still maybe 3 volumes away from finishing it but I could clearly see a lot of parallels between Bone and GF.

So, if you finished Gravity Falls and want to feel that same vibe again the Bone saga is perfect.

[mast3r-rainb0w]

Them Funny BONE Cousins (Phoney, Fone, and Smiley) by Mast3r-Rainb0w

If you remember these guys from a certain classic graphic novel series, you deserve a reward! Thought I'd draw the 3 main cousins from Jeff Smith's comedic fantasy comic, Bone. Enjoy the fanart!

[jkparkin]

Bone by Derek Laufman

[samasmith23]

Ya gotta love just how cartoonishly quickly the winter season comes in the valley from Bone!

[joleneghoul]

The Doors Open, But The Ride Ain't Free

Link to fic is title above. Rating: Mature Category: M/M Main Relationship: Rip Hunter/Jeffrey Smith Background Relationships: Booster Gold & Rip Hunter, Booster Gold/Ted Kord Chapter: 2/3 Chapter Summary: You Want It, You Take It, You Pay The Price.

The past, future, and present all seem to be against Rip as he tries his best to move forward. Though, in moving forward who does he leave behind? Is that even his choice to make?

This chapter happens to be over twice the length of chapter 1… but we are jumping into some character/family analysis for this one so buckle in.

Chapter title from Prove It All Night by Bruce Springsteen

Set after issues #13-16 of Booster Gold 1986 and before Time Masters 1990. Future events of Justice league, Doomsday, and Extreme Justice mentioned.

Thank you once again @stackthedeck for beta reading!

[spaceshiprocket]

Bone by Jeff Smith

[thegoodduckfan]

I really love the cover of Bone #3 for referencing the old Dell/GoldKey Uncle Scrooge covers, especially because Phoney Bone seems to be based on Scrooge.

Interestingly enough, the fact this is in Bone #3 is significant because the first Uncle Scrooge cover to feature this format of Scrooge (plus occasional others) doing a gag that doesn't really relate to the story with a solid color backgrond was Uncle Scrooge #3 (Four Color Comics #495)! Before Uncle Scrooge #3 the covers were explicitly related to the main story inside and even had their names bellow the title.

This cover is more related to the story than the others (kinda like Bone #3, funnily enough) but nothing close to this happens in the story. While Bone #3's cover is most definitely based on these type of covers I can't confirm whether or not it's an intentional or complete coincidence.

[balu8]

Jared Cullum

[eighthman-bound]

Me and the boys on way to the Function

The three kinds of men at a gay bar