Jeff Smith

Conversations

Frederick Luis Aldama

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University Press of Mississippi
30 October 2019

Individual artists, art monographs; Graphic novel & Manga artwork; Literary studies: general; Popular culture

Series: Conversations with Comic Artists Series

First with his magisterial fantasy Bone to his mind-bending, time-warping sci-fi noir RASL, Paleolithic-Set fantasy Tüki: Save the Humans, arthouse-styled superheroic miniSeries Shazam!, and his latest children’s book Smiley’s Dream Book, Jeff Smith (b. 1960) has made an indelible mark on the comics industry. As a child, Smith was drawn to Charles Schulz’s Peanuts, Carl Barks’s Donald Duck, and Walt Kelly’s Pogo, and he began the daily practice of drawing his own stories. After writing his regular strip Thorn for The Ohio State University’s student paper, Smith worked in animation before creating, writing, and illustrating his runaway success, Bone. A comedic fantasy epic, Bone focuses on the Bone cousins, white, bald cartoon characters run out of their hometown, lost in a distant, mysterious valley. The self-published Series ran from 1991 to 2004 and won numerous awards, including ten Eisner Awards.

This career-spanning collection of interviews, ranging from 1999 to 2017, enables readers to follow along with Smith's development as an independent creator, writer, and illustrator.

Edited by: Frederick Luis Aldama
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 385g
ISBN: 9781496824790
ISBN 10: 1496824792
Series: Conversations with Comic Artists Series
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 30 October 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor in the Departments of English, Spanish, and Portuguese, and Film Studies at The Ohio State University. He is the award-winning author, coauthor, and editor of thirty-six books, including Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comic Book Storyworlds: Toward a History and Theory; The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez; Latinx Comic Book Storytelling: An Odyssey by Interview; Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands; and Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology.