Cousins, Humor, Adventure 

Bone 

In OUT FROM BONEVILLE volume 1 of this 9 book epic the three Bone cousins 151 Fone Bone Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone 151 are separated and lost in a vast uncharted desert One by one they find their way into a deep forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures Eventually the cousins are reunited at a farmstead run by tough Gran ma Ben and her spirited granddaughter Thorn But little do the Bones know there are dark forces conspiring against them and their adventures are only just beginning The Washington Post Douglas WolkAs his clean fluid drawing style makes clear Smith was an animator before he began Bone his images always suggest how his characters move in space and a lot of his best tricks are animators tricks The imperturbable matriarch Gran ma Ben has exactly two nearly identical facial expressions a sour grimace and a sour grin He has also picked up his knack for comedy from old animated cartoons A pair of hairy slavering rat creatures arguing about whether to stew their victim or bake him into a light fluffy quiche while he gets away is pure Daffy Duck that the creatures still seem terrifyingly menacing a few pages later says a lot about Smith s dramatic range - from Amzon