Jeff Smith

The Profile

Jeff Smith is an American cartoonist and the creator of Bone, an independent series of 55 issues published between 1991 and 2004 and later collected in a single 1,348-page volume. The series was self-published under Cartoon Books; the Italian edition reviewed here was published by BAO Publishing and includes an afterword by Neil Gaiman.

Bone blends rapid comedic dialogue with an epic fantasy narrative and draws explicit visual and stylistic references to cartoonists such as Kelly, Barks, Schulz, and Sim; the collected volume contains an afterword by Neil Gaiman and the series has received multiple awards (not exhaustively listed in the review).

Bone is an independent 55-issue series by Jeff Smith (published 1991–2004) collected into a single 1,348-page volume. The review highlights its blend of rapid gag-driven humor and an epic fantasy narrative, with visual references to classic cartoonists and literary echoes reaching from Dickens to Tolkien. The Italian edition (BAO Publishing, 2011) includes an afterword by Neil Gaiman noted as spoiler-heavy.