Phoney Bone

Phoney Bone is the greedy, scheming cousin of Fone Bone who hails from Boneville. After one of his disastrous get-rich-quick schemes gets all three Bone cousins run out of town, he finds himself lost in a mysterious valley far from home.

Few comic characters embody lovable scheming quite like Phoney Bone, the fast-talking, get-rich-quick cousin who burst onto the scene in Jeff Smith's landmark Bone series in 1992. A Cartoon Books original through and through, he's been a cornerstone of one of indie comics' most celebrated sagas — sharing those beautifully rendered pages with Fone Bone, Smiley Bone, the formidable Gran'ma Ben, and the mysterious Thorn Harvestar across a run that has stretched an remarkable three decades. Where the Bone saga earned its reputation as an all-ages epic of genuine depth and wit, Phoney provides much of the comic spark — the irrepressible schemer whose ambitions keep colliding with a world far bigger and stranger than he bargained for. If you've somehow not yet fallen into Jeff Smith's masterwork, Phoney Bone is exactly the kind of character who makes you glad you did.