BONE Comic by Jeff Smith.
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BONE Comic Picked Up by WB
By: Jarrod SarafinDate: Saturday, March 08, 2008
Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to Bone, the acclaimed independent comic book series from artist Jeff Smith, says The Hollywood Reporter. The series ran irregularly from 1991-2004. Scholastic has been publishing the collected stories in graphic novel format since 2005, selling more than 1 million copies so far. Dan Lin will produce.
Plot Concept: The fantasy series followed three cousins from the Bone family who are small, white and bald humanlike creatures with big noses. The trio are run out of their hometown and find themselves in a mysterious valley where they are separated and hunted by other creatures. They are taken in by a girl named Thorn and her grandmother, and find out that the valley is threatened by an evil force called the Lord of the Locusts.
