As he got older, he got a taste for the narrative complexity found in literature and film, most notably The Lord of the Rings, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Star Wars and Moby-Dick, which is Smith’s all-time favorite book and is referenced repeatedly in Bone.Īfter graduating from Ohio State University (where he wrote and drew Thorn, a sort of first-draft comic strip version of Bone), he co-founded Character Builders, an animation company that specialized in commercials and credits openings. Jeff Smith (born February 27, 1960) is an Eisner and Harvey-winning American writer, cartoonist and former animator, best known for the independent comic, BONE.īorn in Pennsylvania, raised in Columbus, Ohio, Smith grew up from an early age with an interest in cartoons and comics, most notably the work of Walt Kelly, Charles Schulz, Chuck Jones, Carl Barks and E.C.
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