Netflix acquires rights to do Bone limited series

[MRP]

The Press Release:

NETFLIX SECURES RIGHTS TO AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST
JEFF SMITH’S INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED
COMIC BOOK SERIES BONE!

For Immediate Release

Netflix announced today that it has secured the rights to Jeff Smith’s award-winning and New York Times best-selling international comic book series, BONE, with plans to develop an animated series that follows the iconic Bone cousins on an adventure through a vast, uncharted desert and into a mysterious valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures.

BONE has been published in over 30 countries since 1991, with over 9 million copies in print in North America alone. It is among TIME Magazine’s “Ten Best Graphic Novels of All Time” and winner of more than 40 national and international publishing awards, including the Eisner Awards, Harvey Awards, and The French Alph Art. BONE was a pioneer in comics publishing for kids as the launch title for Scholastic’s graphic novel imprint, Graphix Books, when it debuted in 2005.

“I’ve waited a long time for this,” says Smith, creator of the BONE graphic novels. “Netflix is the perfect home for BONE. Fans of the books know that the story develops chapter by chapter and book by book. An animated series is exactly the way to do this! The team at Netflix understands BONE and is committed to doing something special - this is good news for kids and cartoon lovers all over the world.”

Jeff Smith is an American cartoonist whose other award-winning and acclaimed comics include SHAZAM! The Monster Society of Evil, RASL, Little Mouse Gets Ready!, and BONE: Tall Tales. Smith splits his time between Columbus and Key West with his wife and business partner, Vijaya Iyer, where he is working on his current project TUKI: 2 Million BCE.

Bone is one of my all time favorite comics, and Jeff Smith is from Columbus (home of Mego Meet) and runs a wonderful comics festival (Cartoon Crossroads Columbus) in conjunction with the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum at OSU in Columbus. I am so excited for this.

Pipe Dream: Jeff as a guest at Mego Meet to announce a line of Bone Megos, I so want a Thorn, Gran'ma Ben, Rose and Hooded One Megos.

-M

[palitoy]

My kids adored Bone and I liked reading it to them. Smith is a good cat, we were in a long line for signatures and the sign said "NO SKETCHES". Both the kids brought a favourite of book to have signed, I forgot my Shazam book. When we got outside, he had drawn little sketches for both of them, without request. They were thrilled.

[Earth 2 Chris]

A favorite off all the Franklins. Very exciting!!!

Chris

[PNGwynne]

Sounds interesting. I'm unfamiliar with Bone, but I liked Smith's take on Captain Marvel.

[MRP]

Hmm, in my excitement and haste I typed limited series and I meant to say animated series.

Sounds interesting. I'm unfamiliar with Bone, but I liked Smith's take on Captain Marvel.

Bone really is wonderful. If I could only read one comic the rest of my life, it would be Bone, but I was always resistant to read it when I was younger and bull-headed about comics thinking it was too catoony, "for kids" and not super-heroes, until someone just bluntly told me read it and consider it for what it is and not what I thought I should be reading. It, along with discovering Will Eisner and Scott McCloud totally triggered an evolution in my taste in comics.

-M

[pmwasson]

I read the Bone series to my son when he was little. It was a very happy experience for both of us.

[WannabeMego]

Adding the same sentiment...Before Art came onto the scene with Tiny Titans (2008?), I was reading Bone to My Son...Cautiously Optimistic Netflix will Respectfully Treat the Source Material...Looking Forward to it.