Jeff Smith

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  • Bibliography:
    54 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1991
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Bone

0.5 - Rose (Mar-2002)
1 - Out from Boneville (1991)
2 - The Great Cow Race (Mar-1996)
3 - Eyes of the Storm (Nov-1996)
4 - The Dragonslayer (Jul-1997)
5 - Rockjaw, Master of the Eastern Border (Sep-1998)
6 - Old Man's Cave (Aug-1999)
7 - Ghost Circles (Aug-2001)
8 - Treasure Hunters (Nov-2002)
9 - Crown of Horns (Jul-2004)
10 - Tall Tales (2003)

Book List in Order: 54 titles

  • Out from Boneville

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    Bone - 1

    ADVENTUROUS FUNNY, UNFORGETTABLE. Discover the incredible comic book saga of the unlikely hero who must save an idyllic valley from the forces of evil. after being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins -- Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smil...

  • The Complete Bone Adventures, Volume One, Issues 1-6

  • The Great Cow Race

    Bone - 2

    In Book Two of this incredible comic book saga, the Bone cousins are trying to return to Boneville. What could go wrong? Plenty! Fone Bone and his cousins plan to return home after visiting the village of Barrelhaven with Thorn and Gran'ma Ben. But ...

  • Eyes of the Storm

    Bone - 3

    Hair-raising escapes. Long-buried secrets. The stakes for the Bone cousins are getting higher. Life in the valley isn't getting any easier for the Bones and their newfound friends. Lucius, Smiley, and Phoney are attacked by the rat creatures and bar...

  • The Dragonslayer

    Bone - 4

    Fone Bone confronts a host of dangers in Book 4 of the BONE saga, The Dragonslayer. He and Gran'ma Ben and Thorn have a terrifying encounter with Kingdok, ruler of the rat creatures. The Hooded One is inciting his army to full-scale war. Someone is c...

  • Rockjaw, Master of the Eastern Border

    Bone - 5

    Fone and Smiley Bone strike out into the wilderness to return a lost rat creature cub to the mountains. It doesn't take long before they run smack into Rock Jaw, "Master of the Eastern Border," an enormous mountain lion with a none-too-friendly dispo...

  • Old Man's Cave

    Bone - 6

    The showdown between the Hooded One and the people of the valley begins. Thorn and Phoney Bone seem to be at the center of the maelstrom. Will they survive the Hooded One's sacrificial ceremony by the light of the blood moon?...

  • Bone: Stupid, Stupid Rat-Tails

  • Ghost Circles

    Bone - 7

    The Bones, Gran'ma Ben, Thorn, and their loyal rat creature cub venture on a journey through the mysterious ghost circles to Atheia, the old city of the royal family. One wrong step could change the valley's fate forever.......



  • Rose

    Bone - 0.5

    THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF GRAN'MA BEN When a terrifying dragon attacks the small towns of the Northern Valley, a young Princess Rose (known later as Gran'ma Ben) must defeat it. The beast is actually the ancient evil, the Lord of the Locusts, and whil...

  • Bone Prequel: Rose

    The hit comic book mini-series Rose now comes to you in a single handsome package with a brand-new cover! Released over a yearlong period to rave reviews (and an Eisner nomination for best painter), the Bone prequel by Jeff Smith and Charles Vess can...

  • Treasure Hunters

    Bone - 8

    The Bone cousins, Gran'ma Ben, and Thorn finally reach the city of Atheia, where they reunite with old friends and plan to thwart The Lord of the Locusts. The Pawan army has joined forces with Briar and the rat creatures, and danger increases as Thor...

  • Tall Tales

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    Bone - 10

    Ever wonder what happened before the Bone cousins got lost in the uncharted forest of the Valley? Or how Boneville came to be? This is the hilarious companion to the epic BONE saga. Long before the Bone cousins were ever lost in the uncharted des...

  • Crown of Horns

    Bone - 9

    It's full-fledged war as Briar, the rat creatures, and the Pawan army storm the city of Atheia. The Bone cousins, Thorn, and Gran'ma Ben are all there to defend the Valley and stop the return of the Lord of the Locusts. When Thorn goes inside a ghost...

  • Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume

    BONE â€" The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume

    Winner of 41 National and International Awards including 10 Eisner Awards and 11 Harvey Awards!

    Meet the Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, three misfits who are r...

  • The Art of Bone

    Bone is an international publishing sensation with hundreds of thousands of loyal readers and no end in sight to its growing popularity. Now, for the first time anywhere, see the homemade comics, sketches and grand plans that set this masterpiece of ...

  • RASL, Volume 1: The Drift

    Cartoon Books proudly presents Jeff Smith's new adventure series, RASL - a stark, sci-fi series about a dimension-jumping art thief, a man unplugged from the world who races through space and time searching for his next big score - and trying to esca...

  • Shazam & the Monster Society of Evil

    Jeff Smith, the award-winning creator of BONE, tells the story of young orphan Billy Batson who finds himself transformed into the World's Mightiest Mortal whenever he says the magic word "Shazam!" after being granted the magical powers of the gods b...

  • Little Mouse Gets Ready

    There's lots to do before Little Mouse is ready to go visit the barn. Will he master all the intricacies of getting dressed, from snaps and buttons to Velcro and tail holes? Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Jeff Smith and his determined Little Mouse r...



  • Bone Handbook

    This is the ultimate handbook for every BONE fan! Includes character profiles, a timeline of events, interviews with creator Jeff Smith and colorist Steve Hamaker, a showcase of cover art from the original BONE editions, a behind-the-scenes look at h...

  • RASL, Volume 2: The Fire of St. George

    Jeff Smith's fast-paced sci-fi thriller about an inter-dimensional art thief continues in this action-packed graphic novel. The secrets of RASL's technology and his hidden past are exposed when a mysterious, lizard-faced stranger starts killing the a...

  • The Drift

    Winner of the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album is available in three digital volumes complete and unabridged! A New York Times Bestseller, RASL is Jeff Smith's follow up to his epic fantasy BONE. A tightly wound mixture of science fiction, noir an...

  • RASL, Pocket Book One

    From The New York Times best-selling author of Bone comes a stark, gritty sci-fi series about a dimension-jumping art thief -- a man who races through space and time searching for his next big score -- and trying to escape his past. Known only by...

  • RASL, Romance at the Speed of Light

    From the New York Times best-selling author of BONE comes a hardboiled sci-fi tale about a dimension-jumping art thief -- a man unplugged from the world, racing through space and time searching for his next big score and trying to escape his past.C...

  • Romance at the Speed of Light

    Winner of the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album is available in three digital volumes complete and unabridged! A New York Times Bestseller, RASL is Jeff Smith's follow up to his epic fantasy BONE. A tightly wound mixture of science fiction, noir an...

  • Within the Gates

    Within the Gates is about a man's quest to lead a normal life after being uprooted twice. He is hiding from a crime family and is in the wind from the Witness Protection Program after an attempt is made on his life in Vermont. He flees south, winding...

  • Between the Elders

    Hawkins Construction Company of Little Rock, is under investigation for building code violations and negligent homicide charges after the wing of a nursing home collapses. Reporter Jake Smith is investigating the case, which gets more intense after h...

  • Memories Of Spearsville

    Hunting excursions with ole Tige. Working hard on the farm. Playing baseball, America's pastime. Swimming in Corney Bayou. Killing snakes by the dozen. These, and many more stories are touched upon by author Jeff Smith in his third novel, "Memories o...

  • 7 Days of Panic

    A man's love for his daughter drives him relentlessly to save her from kidnappers. U.S. Marshal James Jennings returns to Hot Springs to put to rest the demons that haunt him from his previous visit and to enjoy a vacation with his wife and kids. How...



  • The Fire of St. George

    Winner of the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album is available in three digital volumes complete and unabridged! A New York Times Bestseller, RASL is Jeff Smith's follow up to his epic fantasy BONE. A tightly wound mixture of science fiction, noir an...

  • RASL: The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla: Volume 4

    The shocking conclusion of the critically acclaimed noir tale from the New York Times best selling author of BONE. In RASL, the dimension-jumping art thief makes a series of discoveries --  all building to a brutal, and primal face off between old...

  • Secrets Of Island 27

    "ONE ISLAND IN THE MIDDLE OF A HUGE LAKE CONTAINS A MYRIAD OF SECRETS!" On prom night 12 years age, Suzanne Evans disappears from the gym at Mount Ida High School in Arkansas and is never seen alive again. Present day, a group of teenagers, out for a...

  • Death in the Darkness

    It's nearly Christmas. The quiet town of Braxton Mills, Missouri has it's holiday disrupted when the police department's lone female officer, Donna Yancey, goes missing after leaving a Christmas party. A massive search takes place, and her body is fo...

  • Escape from the Big Easy

    Vikki Landreaux, a captive of the New Orleans voodoo cult gang known as the Night Creepers, escapes and decides to testify after they brutally murder her kid sister. U.S. Marshal James Jennings, now living in Nashville, Tennessee, is assigned to put ...

  • The East Mountain Murders

    The Brute..A huge beast of a man who prowls at night and remains hidden from the general public because of his hideous head and face from his long-ago family ancestry. On October 8, 2013, a timer goes off deep in his evil soul, and he begins a series...

  • RASL

    Winner of the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album 472 page hardcover in full color!A New York Times Bestseller, RASL is Jeff Smith's follow up to his epic fantasy BONE. A tightly wound mixture of science fiction, noir and conspiracy theories, RASL is...

  • The Best American Comics 2013

    The Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Jeff Smith -- creator of the classic comic Bone, a comedy/adventure about three lost cousins from Boneville -- has culled the best stories from gra...

  • Death Comes to a Small Town

    The small, cozy town of Norman, Arkansas is suddenly thrust into the media spotlight when a prominent attorney from the Little Rock Prosecutor's Office is found murdered with his body dumped in a vacant building with a collapsed roof in the town squa...

  • The Charleston Connection

    Wealthy Little Rock businessman and philanthropist Hugh Powell wants his black sheep son Trent to come home. His latest reports indicate that the wayward offspring is in Charleston, South Carolina. Powell hires private investigator, Denzil R. Montgom...



  • Vanished on the Vista

    During the annual Idiot's Run along the Lake Ouachita Vista Trail in November, one of the runners, Corey Turner, a CPA and financial consultant out of Mena, mysteriously disappears. An exhaustive search for two days on and around the lake reveals no ...

  • Coda

    co·da (ko-d?) noun
    1. the concluding passage of a piece or movement, typically forming an addition to the basic structure. 2. a concluding event, remark, or section.

    25 years after the first black & white issue of the self-published comic ...

  • The Best Book Ever

  • RASL: Book One: The Drift, Full Color Paperback Edition

    For the FIRST TIME in full color, the winner of the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album is available in three trade paperback volumes complete and unabridged! A New York Times Bestseller, RASL is Jeff Smith's follow up to his epic fantasy BONE. A tig...

  • Smiley's Dream Book

    On a beautiful sunny day, happy-go-lucky Smiley Bone is walking through the woods when he begins to count some friendly birds. The birds sing and climb so high that Smiley must find a fantastical way to keep up with them! With lively drawings and...

  • RASL: Book Two: Romance at the Speed of Light, Full Color Paperback Edition

    For the FIRST TIME in full color, the winner of the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album is available in three trade paperback volumes complete and unabridged! A New York Times Bestseller, RASL is Jeff Smith's follow up to his epic fantasy BONE. A tig...

  • Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil

    Young orphan Billy Batson finds himself wielding truly amazing magic powers - just in time to face an invasion of alien and earthly monsters! All he has to do is say the magic word. Shazam! When Billy Batson follows a mysterious stranger onto the ...

  • Bone Adventures

    For the youngest fans of the bestselling graphic novel series BONE, Jeff Smith has created two hilarious tales to delight beginning readers.

    In Finders Keepers, the Bone cousins find a coin -- finders keepers! -- but the boys c...

  • Finders Keepers!

  • TUKI: Fight for Fire

    The ancient world was filled with restless spirits and powerful forces. 2 million years ago, human evolution made its move. It chose Fire. At the dawn of humanity, during a period of tremendous change and drought, three lost children meet a mysteriou...



  • TUKI: Fight for Family

    Two million years ago, at the dawn of humanity, when multiple species of humans lived at the same time, three lost children, a shaggy old timer, and an outcast missing link, fell in with an outsider named Tuki who carried with him the secret of Fire....

  • A Plausible Reason for Your Lousy Behavior

    1962. Spring, summer, and fall. The bay area and the Sacramento Valley beyond.The Giants and the Dodgers go to the wire for the National League pennant and a chance to play the New York Yankees. Five years previous, their hated American League next-d...

  • More Tall Tales: A Graphic Novel

    Jeff Smith's bestselling, award-winning BONE saga returns with this award-winning companion to Tall Tales!Smiley Bone, Fone Bone, and their Rat Creature pal, Bartleby, take a group of young scouts to a legendary landmark that the Bone cousins found w...

  • Little Mouse Saves The Day

    What’s that in the closet—a robber? A monster? A CAT!? This book about overcoming fears is the highly anticipated follow-up to Eisner award-winning author Jeff Smith's Little Mouse Gets Ready and is both a perfect read-aloud and a book th...

  • The Valley

    Cartoon Books is pleased to present the first of four Deluxe Library Editions of the BONE series, on the 30th anniversary of the release of Out from Boneville, the first BONE graphic novel!This beautiful, oversized book, BONE Deluxe Edition Part One&...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jeff Smith has published 54 books.

The next book by Jeff Smith, The Valley, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by Jeff Smith, Out from Boneville, was published in January 1991.

Yes. Jeff Smith has 1 series.
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