Week 11

With it being the middle of the semester, I’m exhausted and I really needed to read something light-hearted and fun. I finished my reading that I started in class of the comic, Bone, Out from Boneville, by Jeff Smith. Surprisingly enough, though my elementary school had a Scholastic book fair every year, I never read one of these comics! Though, I have a very faint memory of seeing this character way back then.

The voice- or personality of an author is shown through their work. Bone is very cartoony and fun. It makes sense that Bone is the way it is because in the “about the author” paragraph in the end of this book, it says that Smith’s major influences were comics, comic books, and animated cartoons. I would describe the voice of the author to be very bouncy, and fit for cartoons. Especially in the beginning, it has many exclamation marks and words written in all capitals because of words being exclaimed loudly or with great enthusiasm. I feel as though cartoons tend to have that ‘silly’ humor where everything said is really dramatised. Also, the writing is very wordy because there is a lot of dialogue. This is also what makes it feel cartoony. In cartoons, especially in this comic, the dialogue is very literal. Examples of this are, “Hey look! I have a dollar!” or, “Say, there’s the map!” The dialogue isn’t realistic at all. It’s very simple and clear, much like the voice of a classic cartoon. 
I enjoyed reading Bone, and I like the author's voice. Bone is a fun story!