Meet the author

Jeff Smith.

Writer & illustrator · United States · b. 1960

Jeff Smith: creator of Bone — the nine-volume fantasy graphic-novel sequence that's the gateway-drug epic fantasy for any reader who likes Tolkien, big stakes and slapstick rat creatures in equal measure.

Jeff Smith is an American cartoonist born in 1960, best known to children's readers as the creator of Bone, the landmark nine-volume fantasy graphic-novel sequence that bridges Walt Kelly's Pogo and Tolkien-style epic adventure. Smith both writes and draws his own work, in clean, expressive black-and-white linework. Bone runs from comic slapstick (Stupid Stupid Rat Creatures, the Great Cow Race) into a steadily darker plot of war, prophecy and hidden royalty, with companion volumes Tall Tales, More Tall Tales and Rose extending the world. He has also written Rasl (an adult sci-fi series, out of scope for this corpus) and the prequel-spinoff Quest for the Spark (with Tom Sniegoski). Eisner Award winner.