Jeff Smith is the writer & artist of comics and graphic novels like BONE, RASL, TUKI, SHAZAM: The Monster Society of Evil, ROSE and Tall Tales. Both BONE and RASL were self-published and are New York Times Bestsellers. BONE began the current YA Graphic Novel explosion by launching Scholastic Books' Graphix imprint and has won 48 national and international awards, including 10 Eisner Awards and 11 Harvey Awards and has been published around the world in 33 countries. RASL won an Eisner for Best Graphic Novel. The webcomic of TUKI won the National Cartoonists Award for Best Online Comic in 2014.