Bone Deluxe Edition Part One: The Valley

Cartoon Books announces the next release of the deluxe library editions with: Part One: The Valley.

This beautiful, oversized book, BONE Deluxe Edition Part One: The Valley, will be 352 pages comprising volumes 1 and 2 of the BONE graphic novels: Out from Boneville and The Great Cow Race. These deluxe collections will be 12.5" x 8.75" trade paperbacks housed in a full color slipcase. The interiors will be black and white as originally presented, but larger than they have ever been printed before! Bonus material includes all illustrated vignettes, photos, early scripts, drawings, articles, reviews and additional pages that appeared in the original graphic novels, as well as a color gallery of all the original covers of the issues contained in this first ultimate edition of BONE!

Just like in our last Deluxe Library Edition titled THORN: The Complete Proto-BONE College Strips from 1982-1986, there will be a full color bonus section called "Tales from the Inkwell", a behind the scenes look at the journey of this collection, BONE and Cartoon Books.

BONE tells the story of three misfit cousins - Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, who are run out of Boneville and find themselves lost in a vast uncharted desert. They make their way into a deep, forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. With the help of the mysterious Thorn, her tough-as-nails Gran'ma Ben and the Great Red Dragon, the boys do their best to survive in the middle of brewing trouble between the valley's denizens. It will be the longest - but funniest - year of their lives!

BONE Deluxe Edition Part One: The Valley, will be released July 2025.

Look for these future Cartoon Books publications: BONE Deluxe Editions Part Two: Phoney Strikes Back, Part Three: Friends and Enemies, Part Four: The Queen of Dreams as well as a Deluxe Library Edition of RASL, and the continuation of TUKI (Book Three of Six) coming soon!

Jeff Smith is the writer & artist of comics and graphic novels like BONE, RASL, TUKI, SHAZAM: The Monster Society of Evil, ROSE and Tall Tales. Both BONE and RASL were self-published and are New York Times Bestsellers. BONE began the current YA Graphic Novel explosion by launching Scholastic Books' Graphix imprint and has won 48 national and international awards, including 10 Eisner Awards and 11 Harvey Awards and has been published around the world in 33 countries. RASL won an Eisner for Best Graphic Novel. The webcomic of TUKI won the National Cartoonists Award for Best Online Comic in 2014.