Cartoon Books has announced that it will be publishing a 20th Anniversary, full color, single-volume collection of Jeff Smith’s Bone in November. This release will be preceded by the July debut of The Bone 20th Anniversary Full Color One-Volume Collector’s Box Set, which will be limited to 2,000 copies and will debut at the San Diego Comic-Con.

Both full color editions will contain all 1344 pages of Bone in a single hardcover volume that measures 9.5” x 7” x 3” and will include “Twenty Years With Bone,” a new essay written by Jeff Smith. To offset the amount of paper used in each volume Cartoon Books has pledged to plant a tree through American Forests.org for every book sold.

 

The Bone 20th Anniversary Full Color One-Volume Collector’s Box Set is limited to 2,000 copies and is selling for $350. The Box Set includes a signed and numbered 6” x 9” art print of a previously unpublished piece of Bone concept art, a 22k gold-plated coin with Phoney Bone’s head on one side, and Fone Bone on the other, Pewter figures of the three Bone cousins, a miniature facsimile of the Bone #1 comic book in black and white as originally published in July of 1991, an expanded cover gallery of the Bone comic books and graphic novels, an illustrated 20-year timeline, and the award-winning documentary DVD, The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, Bone, and the Changing Face of Comics.

 

Cartoon Books is also creating a very limited edition of the Box Set that will include a piece of original art by Jeff Smith that will be hand colored by Steve Hamaker. This extremely limited edition will consist of just 50 copies and will sell for $1,000.

 

The unlimited hardcover edition, which is priced at $150 and ships in November, comes with a full color slipcase, and contains a new 32-page section (1376 pages total) that includes the new “Twenty Years With Bone” essay, the Bone comics cover gallery, and the illustrated 20-year timeline.