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 Both books will be black and white, oversized, and landscape formatted (11.375" x 8.875") with approximately 144 pages each with a bonus material stretch goal. A preview page from TUKI. Making these new books black and white is keeping with the tradition of Smith's previous works, BONE, and RASL  Both new graphic novels are totally complete and ready to[...]

This one is a gift for the local therapist, because the waiting room needs a little humor. RASL: Color Edition – Cartoon Books, September Fat colored hardcover of Jeff Smith's trippy series for adults All the quirks of Bone with a decidedly different sensibility The trivia about Nikolai Tesla fits right into the tastes of Teslamaniacs[...]

Paul Karasik, head of programming for Comic Arts Brooklyn this year, interviewed Jeff Smith (Bone, RASL) on Saturday about his life in comics and the process behind his work, and then Smith live-inked a Bone illustration for the audience, and the piece was then auctioned off on behalf of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund,[...]

This year, at the "The Future: Big New Books in Comics Sci-Fi" panel, hosted by Publishers Weekly's Calvin Reid, Jeff Smith (Bone, RASL), Paul Pope (Battling Boy, One Trick Rip Off), and Faith Erin Hicks (Friends With Boys, The Last of Us) drew quite a crowd, many of whom have been obsessively following these creators for years,[...]

 Our Washington DC Correspondent David Dissanayake writes; This weekend at SPX's Jeff Smith spotlight panel, the man of the hour gave a little more detail about his forthcoming webcomic series Tüki Save the Humans. The new webcomic from the creator of Bone and RASL will center on the first homo erectus to migrate away from the cradle[...]

Lovely. Rasl by Jeff Smith from Cartoon Books is collecting the series previously mostly seen in black and white, and was from the get-go a seeming attempt of Smith not to be typecast and create something that was very much not-Bone A slow burn sci-fi story with vagrants, parallel worlds and multiple identities. This collected version is being[...]

I just feel sorry for the polar bear. We find out a lot of things as Jeff Smith's Rasl concludes its dimension hopping story This is just one. First X-Men is all about firsts Neal Adams throws continuity into a dustbin and gives us a new first meeting between Xavier, Wolverine and Sabretooth in this kinda-X-Men First[...]

Three books out this week, one by Dave Sim, one by Jeff Smith, one by Terry Moore, all huge figures of the self publishing business for decades, and all back to putting out regular black-and-white work, away from their earlier, more famous work. First up, the interdimensional action romp Rasl from Jeff Smith gains a romantic[...]

I can accept Jeff Smith's art style on a darker book like Rasl, sketchier, dropping certain cartoony aspects to better convey the story, while retaining enough to keep the character relatable and the story to flow But the lettering, I so associate with Bone, it makes it hard to let go. Not a problem with Ted[...]

but isn't getting them yet. Jeff Smith – Rasl will continue until it reaches some 400 pages (12-15 issues), after which, he'll start another project, as well as the intended sequel to his recent Shazam mini-series for DC. Brain Bendis – he's compiling a Fortune And Glory-style series based on his Marvel experiences.  His movies are still[...]