Jeff+Smith

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Kaitlyn and Michael B.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Smith_(cartoonist) 
 * Jeff Smith was born on Feburary 27,1960 in Mckees Rocks, Pennsylvania.
 * In 1991 he started a company called cartoon books to publish his cartoon book BONE.
 * His family moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he started showing an interest in cartoons starting in kindergarten.
 * Jeff Smith made his mind up to become a cartoonist at nine years of age after someone brought a copy of some of [|Walt Kelly]'s //[|Pogo]// comics to school.
 * He started his career by working for D.C. comics.

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 * BONE THE GREAT COW RACE**
 * I learned about cartooning by reading comic strips, books, and watching TV.
 * After four years of drawing comic strips for Ohio State University's student newspaper and cofounding Charater Bilders.
 * He launched the comic book BONE in 1991.
 * Jeff Smith intended Bone to be for children.
 * He got the setting for BONE by waking in a forest called Old Man's Cave when he was little.