So I said, Okay. This is a different book. This is a book about family and I need to actually start over from the beginning. I kept two major moments from the webcomic. One where Tuki has a giant battle with a god. I kept that and then a couple more scenes. I actually had enough to make two graphic novels. So I did. And then I was just going to self publish them — I guess my answer is starting to feel really long to me — but I was about to self publish it, and I happened to talk to some guys I knew from back in the self publishing days, Billy Tucci and his wife, Deborah, and Francisca Pulido and Brian Pulido, who, they do Lady Death and [Billy and Deborah] do Shi.
These are self published comics, back when I was self publishing. They talked me into it. They talked Vijaya and I into it. But this way, it was just a more direct conversation with readers and people who are interested in comics, as opposed to really only trying to talk to the distributor or the retailers.
We got the first two books funded. Tuki takes place in the Paleolithic era, in which multiple different branches of the hominid evolutionary tree existed at the same time and interact with each other. What was it about paleoanthropology that just struck you so deeply, and made you want to explore in a story? Where do we come from? How did we get here? It just came out of my mouth.
Two million years ago. And this is also the first time we were hairless. All the other ones were still covered with fur. They know through genetics of lice, they can look at lice and they can tell when they were only on our heads; they know when that happened, and it was two million years ago.
Maybe they fear it, or consider it blasphemous, or something like that. Tuki also has this idea of the holiness just in ancientness, that is connected with the actual supernatural. Where does that idea come from in your work? You are correct in that I am fascinated by the forces that we cannot see. I find that that is one of the things in storytelling that is the most interesting for me. In Bone , it was this idea that somehow dreams can connect us all on some profoundly primitive level.
In RASL , it was literally physics. And, and Shazam! That was a place beyond space and time and it is — I went to the Taj Mahal one time, and then you take your shoes off when you go into the Taj Mahal, and I remember that. They just are. I am very fascinated by it. Meet the Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, three misfits 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.
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With its striking artwork by multiple World Fantas… More. Want to Read. Shelving menu. Shelve Rose. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Rate it:. Book 1; issues Bone, Vol. After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone c… More. Shelve Bone, Vol. Book 2; issues Book 3; issues Polygon sat down with Smith for a long interview on the 30th anniversary of the first self-published issue of Bone stay tuned for everything we talked about next week , but the topic of the Bone animated series naturally arose.
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