RASL

There's a lot to celebrate about the 20th anniversary of Jeff Smith's Cartoon Books, namely the birth of the all-ages Bone in 1991 and Smith's latest, more mature series RASL in 2008. Each series has been collected a number of different ways in print in the past, but starting today the first 11 issues of Bone and the up-to-date run of RASL will be available digitally via comiXology...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: ^ Seven Deadly Finns * Blank Frank % Kurt's Rejoinder ¢ Burning Airlines Give You So Much More * BATMAN: HUSH UNWRAPPED DELUXE EDITION Or, to put it differently, Jim Lee uninked--a black-and-white edition of the Lee-drawn run on Batman, reproduced from his lushly rendered pencils, with let

Though updates on the status of Warner Bros. and Animal Logic's CG animated adaptation of Jeff Smith's epic Bone series have been few and far between over the past year or so, Smith fans have new movie hope in the form of the creator's current black and white series, RASL...

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY * Stuffed animals ^ Alternative energy sources % The perils of maturity * ACHEWOOD VOL. 3: A HOME FOR SCARED PEOPLE Oh, Chris Onstad...

Cable television's relative deluge of cake-centric programming may have many weary of boisterous bakery personalities, but there's no denying they've reinforced the notion that sweet breads and their edible cohorts make a delicious medium of art...

Like a lot of brats who grew up watching waaaay too much TGIF, my corneas are forever seared with the image of "Full House's" Michelle Tanner giving the world a disingenuous thumbs up. Additionally, my younger sister and a new wife have succeeded in grafting about a baker's dozen "The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley" songs directly onto my temporal lobe...

ComicsAlliance reviews the biggest, best, and most interesting comics that hit the shelves this week. SPOILERS FOLLOW. DOWNPLAYING TURNING THIRTY - She-Hulk Sensational One-Shot This year marks She-Hulk's thirtieth anniversary, which puts Marvel in a bit of a pickle because they'd like to celebrate it but Jennifer Walters doesn't actually have her own book at the moment...

ComicsAlliance reviews the biggest -- and best -- books coming out this week. A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE PRINTERS - Unthinkable #3 While attempting to travel last May, Mark Sable had an unexpected run-in with the law. Mark Sable is not the name of the series' hero, however; "Unthinkable" follows a writer named Alan Ripley, whose success as a terrorist conspiracy writer in

At the last stop on his year-long Bone World Tour, Jeff Smith sat down at SPX this afternoon with Heidi MacDonald for an engaging hour-long chat in which he spoke of Bone, Shazam, and his forthcoming Rasl. And yes, he also uttered the pull quote I shamelessly used as the title of this post, but you'll have to read on to get the context for that statement...