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Bone, Vol. 1: Out from Boneville (Bone #1; issues 1-6)
by
Jeff Smith
After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone, 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...
Humor, mystery, and adventure are spun together in this action-packed, side-splitting saga. Everyone who has ever le
...morePaperback, 140 pages
Published
February 1st 2005
by Scholastic
(first published July 1993)
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I read Bone way back in the early 90s when it was serialized in comic book form, before these gorgeous collections by Scholastic. I recently revisited these and found them to have aged incredibly well. Like the best narratives for young audiences, the adventures of the three cousins Fone Bone, Smiley Bone, and Phoney Bone resonate with adults as well. The only other analogue that comes to mind is some of the work by Pixar. Jeff Smith has created a timeless series that I hope to read to my childr...more
My 8 year old son received this entire series for Christmas and is flying through them. This one was very entertaining. Art work is great, too. I guess I have to read them all now to see if Phone, Smiley, and Phoney ever get back to Boneville.
Dec 08, 2007
Joe S
rated it
1 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
especially dull eight-year-olds
Shelves:
graphic-novels
People I love think this is a friggin masterpiece, and I love them less for it now.
I picked up the first volume of Bone because I'd heard it had such amazing comic timing, a great storyline and relatively solid artwork. No one mentioned that the dialogue reads as though it were written by a fifth grader, the humor is predictable and the story is so threadbare and uninteresting I began making up my own story for the panels. And to say that the artwork is well done is like saying the dreamcatcher...more
I picked up the first volume of Bone because I'd heard it had such amazing comic timing, a great storyline and relatively solid artwork. No one mentioned that the dialogue reads as though it were written by a fifth grader, the humor is predictable and the story is so threadbare and uninteresting I began making up my own story for the panels. And to say that the artwork is well done is like saying the dreamcatcher...more
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Out from Boneville is the first installment in the Bone series featuring Phoney Bone, Fone Bone, and Smiley Bone. When the three cousins are run out of Boneville because of Phoney Bone's latest scheme, they get lost and separated in the desert. Fone Bone (our hero) finds a secret valley where he encounters weird weather, strange friends (a cow racing grandmother and a tiny green bug), frightening foes (homicidal rat creatures), and a strangely protective dragon that no one else can see.
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Bone is a graphic novel about three ‘bones’. Bones are fictional beings that interact with, talk like, and live like humans. The three bones, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone, start off the book in a desert-like area where we find out that Phoney got kicked out from Boneville, their hometown.
All three Bones fall into a valley and get lost. Fone Bone, the main character, is lost all by himself. He is stuck in the wilderness alone. While Fone Bone is looking for his cousins, he finds a ta...more
All three Bones fall into a valley and get lost. Fone Bone, the main character, is lost all by himself. He is stuck in the wilderness alone. While Fone Bone is looking for his cousins, he finds a ta...more
Bone
Bone is a graphic novel about these living bones that got kicked out of their city. As they try to find their way back they all end up getting split up now since all of them are separated, none of them know how to get back home because they don’t function very well when they are separated. The book focuses on one of the characters through most of the story. He got trapped in a forest because when winter comes you can not leave the forest until it is gone. Bone was trapped in the woods until...more
Bone is a graphic novel about these living bones that got kicked out of their city. As they try to find their way back they all end up getting split up now since all of them are separated, none of them know how to get back home because they don’t function very well when they are separated. The book focuses on one of the characters through most of the story. He got trapped in a forest because when winter comes you can not leave the forest until it is gone. Bone was trapped in the woods until...more
Bone didn't make it onto my radar until a coworker recommended it for my TinTin-obsessed eight-year-old cousin. realizing that I, too, am TinTin-obsessed, I decided to give it a shot.
And, wow. Bone has the adventure of TinTin and the impeccable comic timing and sensibility of Walt Kelly's Pogo; in short, it's the funniest, most exciting, smartest comic book you've never heard of.
Let me put it another way. Regardless of whether or not you read comic books at all, if you have a pulse and you can r...more
And, wow. Bone has the adventure of TinTin and the impeccable comic timing and sensibility of Walt Kelly's Pogo; in short, it's the funniest, most exciting, smartest comic book you've never heard of.
Let me put it another way. Regardless of whether or not you read comic books at all, if you have a pulse and you can r...more
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The bones creatures are little white short people. There are three different brothers that get run out of boneville, because Phonicble bone tries to become a mayor but drives everyone in a waste plant. They are stuck in a desert but they all get separated. They all go through many different adventure sin this magical world and finally get re united when they find themselves all living together with a girl named thorn and her grandmother grandma ben. They want to get back to Boneville but unfortu...more
A comic book tale of creatures visually derived, inspired isn’t quite the accomplishment here, from Walt Kelly’s Pogo, Bone, or at least the first volume, is pretty shallow stuff. It is hailed as a contemporary classic but unless it evolves dramaticly in subsequent volumes, I don’t see it. Fone Bone is the strip’s Pogo. But he lacks the personality, no complex mixture of innocence and wisdom. The other characters (Smiley Bone; Phoney Bone, Thorn, Gran’ma Rose, and the forest monsters, rat-like c...more
This book was the first graphic novel I had ever read, I had never really spent the time reading any because I enjoyed reading books with more words. This book had me smiling and laughing out loud, because the expressions and pictures when right along with the words and dialog that was in this novel. The story is about three cousins are run out of Boneville because Phoney Bone, is greedy and insulted the towns’ people of Boneville when he was trying to be elected for mayor. The characters are pr...more
[Bad morning.]
I wasn't sure I'd ever review Jeff Smith's Bone. After all, is there much that can be said that hasn't already been said? Bone's so long been part of the canon of comics literature (such as one exists) that reviewing it at this point is like reviewing Watchmen or The Dark Knight Returns or Maus. Or for the non-comics-literate, a bit like if someone penned a review today for Huckleberry Finn. I mean, what's the point, really?
Still, I tell myself, there are those who haven't read the...more
I'm not a graphic novel reader.
This was a weird book, which lumpy white characters called "bones". What? I didn't find it very funny, although I could see where some people would think so. The humor mostly came from characters' stupidity (i.e., from the rat creatures, from everyone's disbelief in dragons, from Phoney's greed), which I thought rather simplistic.
I hated the immodesty of the girl Thorn (usually accidental on her part, completely unnecessary on the artist's part), and I hated that s...more
This was a weird book, which lumpy white characters called "bones". What? I didn't find it very funny, although I could see where some people would think so. The humor mostly came from characters' stupidity (i.e., from the rat creatures, from everyone's disbelief in dragons, from Phoney's greed), which I thought rather simplistic.
I hated the immodesty of the girl Thorn (usually accidental on her part, completely unnecessary on the artist's part), and I hated that s...more
Mar 11, 2013
Louis Monem
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I thought that this book was a great read. it wasn't hard to read, and the illustrations were great. This book is about 3 cousins Smiley Bone, Phoney bone, and Fone bone. These 3 cousins get kicked out of Boneville because Phoney bone gave everybody Bad Prunes. Phoney bone was running for mayor in Boneville, he gave all the people who came to his speech Prunes the people soon realized that the Prunes were bad. The three cousins go roaming around looking for Boneville but they are unable to find...more
This graphic novel is a mash-up of old-timey cartoon characters (think old Disney shorts or classic Warner Bros.) and a fantasy setting, populated by dragons, talking woodland creatures, monsters, and a sinister hooded figure. I've come across it many a time and thought about giving it a try.
And, well, I did. I enjoyed the sly humor of the Phoney Bone character, one of the trio of cartoon characters who've been run out of their home town, thanks to Phoney's corporate greed. They find themselves...more
And, well, I did. I enjoyed the sly humor of the Phoney Bone character, one of the trio of cartoon characters who've been run out of their home town, thanks to Phoney's corporate greed. They find themselves...more
Bone: Out From Boneville is the first of 9 books in the series that is written and illustrated by Jeff Smith. This series of books (at least this book in particular) is most suitable for 11 and 12 year olds and older. A humorous tale of three cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone who get kicked out of Boneville and are now stranded in a desert with a useless map. A swarm of locusts cause confusion between the cousins and the three become separated and lost. Fone Bone meets Thorn who q...more
Bone: Out From Bonevile By Jeff Smith
Fiction 138 pages
Finished 1-1-13
Bone: Out From Boneville by Jeff Smith is a humorous book with lots of adventure. In the book, there are three cousins from Boneville. Their names are Smiley Bone, Phoney Bone, and Fone Bone. They get kicked out of their town and are forced to find a new home. Along the way, the Bone cousins come across a mysterious place where there are talking leaves and giant rat creatures. This place is home to villagers who do not use mone...more
Fiction 138 pages
Finished 1-1-13
Bone: Out From Boneville by Jeff Smith is a humorous book with lots of adventure. In the book, there are three cousins from Boneville. Their names are Smiley Bone, Phoney Bone, and Fone Bone. They get kicked out of their town and are forced to find a new home. Along the way, the Bone cousins come across a mysterious place where there are talking leaves and giant rat creatures. This place is home to villagers who do not use mone...more
Fone Bone and his two cousins have been run out from Boneville after Phoney Bone conducts some bad money schemes. After traveling across the desert into territory no bone has ever been to before, the trio gets separated in a place called the Valley and Fone Bone must use his smarts to survive on his own. He makes some friends along the way but also some horrifying enemies. Will he ever find his cousins?
This was quite a fun read for me. I don't think that I've ever really read and _Bone_ comics b...more
This was quite a fun read for me. I don't think that I've ever really read and _Bone_ comics b...more
Nov 30, 2012
Jonathan Reed
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The three bone cousins Fone, Phonicible, and Smiley are ran out of their own town of Boneville and are trying to find a new place to go. While they are getting away from there home town they get lost in the middle of now where. While the brothers are looking at a map all of a sudden a swarm of locates come out of no where and as they are running away they get separated from each other. With all three brothers separated and looking for each other they all go on sperate journeys. As the brothers...more
In this graphic novel, three creatures and cousins, Fone Bone, Smiley Bone, and Phoney Bone, are all ran out of their town by the city. As they are walking towards the next town, a swarm of locusts attack them and they end up losing each other. Fone Bone, the main character, ends up searching all over the place to find his cousins but doesn’t seem to have a lot of luck. As he is searching, the seasons start changing but he is making friends throughout, but still trying to find his cousins. He ru...more
Bone: Out of Boneville (Vol. 1) by Jeff Smith. Genre: Fantasy, Graphic Novel, Adventure
This comic book starts off with three cousins getting expelled from the Boneville for acts of fraud. After several struggles, the three Bones (Phoney Bone, Fone Bone, Smiley Bone) end up being separated in the middle of the desert. The protagonist, Fone Bone, ends up alone in a jungle and starts his new adventure to find his cousins. During his journey, he meets a calm red dragon, fights off evil large rats, a...more
This comic book starts off with three cousins getting expelled from the Boneville for acts of fraud. After several struggles, the three Bones (Phoney Bone, Fone Bone, Smiley Bone) end up being separated in the middle of the desert. The protagonist, Fone Bone, ends up alone in a jungle and starts his new adventure to find his cousins. During his journey, he meets a calm red dragon, fights off evil large rats, a...more
The graphic novel series, Bone, written by Jeff Smith is a popular children’s series that involves three cousins and their wild adventures. The first book in the series Bone: Out From Boneville is six chapters of the cousins funny adventure home. The three cousins- Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are lost in the desert where they stumble upon a map, after being separated the cousins end up all on the same farm. There they meet Thorn and quite a few unfriendly creatures that cause bumps i...more
Bone written and illustrated by Jeff Smith is the first in a series of graphic novel is an adventure story about three cousins from Boneville, Fone, Smiley, Phoney Bone. Each cousin has a different personality, Fone Bone is the primary character and he is the most sensible. He spends the entire novel searching for his two cousins after they get separated. Along the way he runs into some trouble with a few rat monsters but finds friendship in a human named Thorn and a mysterious dragon. Fone Bone...more
Bone : Out from Boneville (Vol. 1), by: Jeff Smith. Genre: Fantasy, fiction, Adventure. Pages: 138
As the first book of the series, this book starts off with three cousins (Fone Bone, the smart protagonist, Phoney Bone, the grumpy, greedy & former richest man in town, Smiley Bone, the forever jolly and carefree lad) running away from town - Phoney had tried several plots to earn dirty money and attempt money laundering; thus, enraged the people of boneville, but his cousins were able to sneak...more
As the first book of the series, this book starts off with three cousins (Fone Bone, the smart protagonist, Phoney Bone, the grumpy, greedy & former richest man in town, Smiley Bone, the forever jolly and carefree lad) running away from town - Phoney had tried several plots to earn dirty money and attempt money laundering; thus, enraged the people of boneville, but his cousins were able to sneak...more
This is the first book in the Bone series. It is a quick read and is a fantasy graphic novel. It starts off introducing the three main charcters Smiley, Phoney Bone, and Fone Bone. It shows them arguing with each other because one of them got them run out of their hometown Boneville. They find this map as a huge cloud of insects come and swarm them. They all get separated and wander off. Phoney Bone finds a valley and finds one of Smileys cigar butts. Phoney ends up running into two evil rat cr...more
I’ve heard good things about this series of easy graphic novels from several sources. And I admit book one was engaging. Fone Bone is a cute little white critter that reminds me a bit of Casper the ghost. He’s even-tempered, reasonable and likeable. But he, along with his cousins Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, are kicked out of Boneville because of Phoney’s greedy, selfish, deceiving practices. The threesome immediately becomes separated and lost when a swarm of locust overruns them in the desert....more
May 10, 2012
Alondra V
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Ever since I’d read this book I felt like if I was inside the book. Because when I
Have meet the characters they all sounded like a helpful team. Smiley, Phoney, and Fone Bone are
Cousins and they were lost by riding an air-balloon. Thorn is a very smart girl, her parents were
Killed by some rat creatures that had been send by the headmaster . But now she lives with her grandma in a farm, in a small village. Grandma Ben, she’s a woman that has protected her grand-daugther from the rat creatures...more
Have meet the characters they all sounded like a helpful team. Smiley, Phoney, and Fone Bone are
Cousins and they were lost by riding an air-balloon. Thorn is a very smart girl, her parents were
Killed by some rat creatures that had been send by the headmaster . But now she lives with her grandma in a farm, in a small village. Grandma Ben, she’s a woman that has protected her grand-daugther from the rat creatures...more
Out from Boneville" is the first volume of Jeff Smith's self-published comic book, "Bone." It tells the story of the Bone family, who are small white creatures that are never really explained, but interact with humans and animals. In volume 1, the protagonist of the story, Fone Bone, and his two cousins, Smiley and Phoney, find themselves run out of the town of Boneville, where they become lost in a strange valley. They soon discover the valley is filled with strange creatures (even stranger tha...more
It’s hard to write an objective review for this book because really what I want to say is how good everything in it is. That isn’t to say I think a review should be completely negative, or it can’t reflect the high quality of the work. I mean I want to talk about it the way a school girl talks about the latest teen idol, complete with jumping around and gushing over the work. I’ll do my best to remain calm, but I won’t make any promises.
So Bone, as I’m sure you know, is the story of the three...more
So Bone, as I’m sure you know, is the story of the three...more
A promising start to a fun comic series. While I knew Jeff Smith had ties to Ohio State, I didn't realize that the valley where Bone takes place is modeled after the Hocking Hills region of Ohio, with names like Old Man's Cave and Conkle's Hollow included in the series. The art is great, and the story has some slapstick lightness along with an adventure plot. The first book gives hints to sinister dealings between the cousin of Fone Bone (the plucky protagonist), hairy rat monsters, and a myster...more
Have had "Out from Boneville" a couple of years now, originally bought for my daughter after researching books to try and hook her into reading. Of course, I did peruse the volume at the time and felt disappointed, just thought it was not my 'thing' at all and it didn't grab her either! Like, what was all the fuss about???
With moving house and a predisposition towards procrastination and distract-ability, I found myself with it on the couch, and soon became oblivious to the pile of boxes around...more
With moving house and a predisposition towards procrastination and distract-ability, I found myself with it on the couch, and soon became oblivious to the pile of boxes around...more
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Born and raised in the American mid-west, Jeff Smith learned about cartooning from comic strips, comic books, and watching animation on TV. In 1991, he launched a company called Cartoon Books to publish his comic book BONE, a comedy/adventure about three lost cousins from B...more
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Born and raised in the American mid-west, Jeff Smith learned about cartooning from comic strips, comic books, and watching animation on TV. In 1991, he launched a company called Cartoon Books to publish his comic book BONE, a comedy/adventure about three lost cousins from B...more
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“Fone Bone: HOLD IT! Thorn thinks Gran'ma Ben can help us get back to Boneville!
Phoney Bone: IT'S NOT WORTH IT! LET GO OF ME!
Fone Bone: Would you wait a minute?!! We can explain everything!
Phoney Bone: HELP! HELP! They've destroyed my cousin's brain!! OH MY GOSH! THey've already milked you haven't they?!!”
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Phoney Bone: IT'S NOT WORTH IT! LET GO OF ME!
Fone Bone: Would you wait a minute?!! We can explain everything!
Phoney Bone: HELP! HELP! They've destroyed my cousin's brain!! OH MY GOSH! THey've already milked you haven't they?!!”
“Please, comrade! I just want to chop him up for the stew!'
'And that's another thing! I'm tired of stew! I want to put him in a crust and bake a light fluffy quiche!'
'QUICHE?! What kind of food is THAT for a monster to eat?!”
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'And that's another thing! I'm tired of stew! I want to put him in a crust and bake a light fluffy quiche!'
'QUICHE?! What kind of food is THAT for a monster to eat?!”
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