Netflix has secured the rights to Jeff Smith’s Bone, the whimsical fantasy epic that’s widely viewed as one of the Holy Grail properties among unadapted comic book classics. Netflix wil…
, the whimsical fantasy epic that’s widely viewed as one of the Holy Grail properties among unadapted comic book classics. Netflix will develop theThe writer, artist, and creator of“I’ve waited a long time for this,” Smith said. “Netflix is the perfect home for. Fans of the books know that the story develops chapter-by-chapter and book-by-book.
was on board to co-write and direct the first installment of a Bone franchise. When that endeavor also fell short the stage was set for Netflix and a new approach. The story follows the Bone cousins — the intrepid Fone Bone, the scheming Phoney Bone, and the affable Smiley Bone — on their adventures through a vast, uncharted desert that gives way to a mysterious valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures
The saga, which was included in Time Magazine’s “10 best graphic novels of all-time,” was originally published from 1991 to 2004 in a traditional comic book format. In 2005, the fantasy epic became the vanguard of a new front in young-reader publishing when Scholastic selected Smith’s opus as the launch title for Graphix Books, a graphic novel imprint that paved the way for an entirely new and competitive sector in the marketplace.
Over the next five years, Scholastic recolored and reprinted Smith’s magnum opus as nine graphic novels that sold 8 million copies in North America alone and brought the Bone Cousins’s escapades to young readers in 30 countries. The series piled up more than 40 national and international publishing awards, among them the Eisner Award, the Harvey Award, and The French Alph Art.
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