Only three volumes were issued as the 'Complete Bone Adventures'-later collected versions had different title. As the series grew in popularity, it was reissued and re-edited, colorized, and combined in various ways. Like many graphic novels, the bibliography can be confusing. When I was running a general new-and-used bookshop, we steadily sold the complete Bone, a War and Peace length book of 1344 pages, to kids who couldn't get enough.

Bone features three Schmoo-like brothers and alternates between comedy and drama in the storytelling. The first edition of the first graphic novel volume in the Bone series, collecting the first six installments (of 55) originally published between 19. First hardcover edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). Bone became one of the most celebrated comic book series, winning forty-one awards for a storyline running fifty-five issues long.'-The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel, p. 'The sales of the first Bone graphic novel, Out of Boneville, produced by a tiny company, was a powerful demonstration of the emerging graphic novel format. While Smith has made various deals with comic books and children's book publishers at various times, this book and the complete Bone are produced by his own publishing company, making him one on only a handful of comics creators who control their work. This is the hardcover reissue, published as the series gained popularity. This graphic novel was first published in paperback, in 1993. The comic was later colorized and revised. This first volume (of nine) in graphic novel format reproduces the original black-and-white version. The hardcover issue of the first graphic novel volume of the collected Bone series, collecting the first six installments (of 55) originally published between 19.

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Bone, Vol. 2 by Jeff Smith