(W/A) Jeff Smith

This beautiful, oversized book, BONE Deluxe Edition Part One: The Valley, will comprise volumes 1 and 2 of the BONE graphic novels: Out from Boneville and The Great Cow Race. 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. These deluxe collections will be 12 1/2' x 8 3/4' 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! 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.