Bone creator Jeff Smith will be the focus of an exhibit called “Bone and Beyond” at the Wexner Center Galleries in Columbus, Ohio. Scheduled to run from 10 May to 17 August 2008, the exhibition will include about 75 of Smith’s original drawings. Most of the drawings will be originnal black-and-white pages from Bone, but there will also be full-color Boone covers and post-Bone work, including original drawings from Smith’s recent Shazam series for DC Comics and from his forthcoming time-travel story Rasl.
The exhibition will also include a selection of original comics whose artists Smith cites as direct influences, including Walt Kelly’s Pogo, Will Eisner’s The Spirit, George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, Charles Schulz’s Peanuts, Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury and E.C. Segar’s Thimble Theatre.
Professor Lucy Shelton Caswell, curator of Ohio State University‘s Cartoon Research Library, organized the exhibition and wrote the introduction for the exhibition catalog, which will also feature essays by David Filipi (the Wexner Center’s curator of film and video), Sandman creator Neil Gaiman, and cartoonist and scholar Scott McCloud. The exhibition is a partnership between the Wexner Center and Ohio State University’s Cartoon Research Laboratory.
Admission to the exhibit is free. For more information, see this page.