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Jeff Smith (cartoonist)
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| Jeff Smith | |
 Jeff Smith in Hamburg, 2006. |
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| Born | 1960 McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania |
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| Area(s) | Writer, Penciller, Inker, Publisher |
| Notable works | Bone, |
Jeff Smith (born 1960 in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the self-published comic book series Bone. He has also worked for Character Builders Animation as an Art Director. He currently resides in Columbus, Ohio. Smith was born in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. His family moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he displayed an interest in cartoons dating back to as early as kindergarten. Smith made his mind up to become a cartoonist at nine years of age after a classmate brought a copy of some of Walt Kelly's Pogo comics to school.
While attending the Ohio State University, Smith created a daily four-panel strip for the student newspaper, The Lantern. That strip, called Thorn, introduced the characters that would later populate his comic book series Bone.
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Smith has won several awards, including the 1995, 1996, 1998, and 2000 National Cartoonists Society Comic Book Awards (for Bone), nine Harvey Awards: Best Cartoonist in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, and 2003, Special Award for Humor in 1994, and Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Works (for The Complete Bone Adventures) in 1994.
Jeff Smith has for the last couple of years kept busy on writing and penciling a Captain Marvel (Shazam!) miniseries for DC Comics. Jeff's quote from the message board: "Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil is about Captain Marvel's early experiences, sort of like a Shazam: Year One kind of thing, so it is separate from their current continuity. It is about half done, and I'm having a blast doing it. I'm a Captain Marvel fan, and this is the Cheese story I always wanted to see!"[1]
In 2007 Fantagraphics Books named Smith as the designer for an upcoming series of books collecting the complete run of Walt Kelly's Pogo.
He has recently designed the cover art for Say Anything's new album, "In Defense of the Genre".
Smith is working on RASL, "a stark, sci-fi series about a dimension-jumping art thief with personal problems". A six page preview was shown on the San Diego Comic-Con 2007 and the series is supposed to start 2008 self-published in oversized black and white comic books.
- ^ Jennifer M. Contino. Jeff Smith: Bone comics, games & Shazam.
- short bio from Boneville.com
- Jeff Smith's Official Boneville Message Board - from World Famous Comics Community
- The Onion AV Club Interview