Frederick Luis Aldama 
Jeff Smith 
Conversations

First with his magisterial fantasy
Bone to his mind-bending, time-warping sci-fi noir
RASL, Paleolithic-set fantasy
Tüki: Save the Humans, arthouse-styled superheroic miniseries
Shazam!, and his latest children’s book
Smiley’s Dream Book, Jeff Smith (b. 1960) has made an indelible mark on the comics industry.


As a child, Smith was drawn to Charles Schulz’s
Peanuts, Carl Barks’s
Donald Duck, and Walt Kelly’s
Pogo, and he began the daily practice of drawing his own stories. After writing his regular strip
Thorn for The Ohio State University’s student paper, Smith worked in animation before creating, writing, and illustrating his runaway success,
Bone. A comedic fantasy epic,
Bone focuses on the Bone cousins, white, bald cartoon characters run out of their hometown, lost in a distant, mysterious valley. The self-published series ran from 1991 to 2004 and won numerous awards, including ten Eisner Awards.


This career-spanning collection of interviews, ranging from 1999 to 2017, enables readers to follow along with Smith’s development as an independent creator, writer, and illustrator.

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Frederick Luis Aldama, also known as Professor Latinx, is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and affiliate faculty in radio-TV-film at the University of Texas, Austin, as well as adjunct professor and Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University. He is author of over forty-eight books and has received the International Latino Book Award and an Eisner Award for Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics. He is editor or coeditor of nine academic press book series, including Biographix with University Press of Mississippi. He is creator of the first documentary on the history of Latinx superheroes and founder and director of UT’s Latinx Pop Lab. His Spanish translation and animation film adaptation of his children’s book The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie (2020) will be released in the fall of 2021. He is also editor of Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia and Jeff Smith: Conversations, both published by University Press of Mississippi.