Boof #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeBoof #1 marks the first appearance of the title character Boof and represents one of the most unusual publishing experiments of the early Image era: a deliberately crude humor comic designed to reach mass-market retail audiences rather than the traditional direct-market comic shop. The series was Todd McFarlane's attempt to adapt the irreverent, gross-out sensibility of early-1990s animated television — the era of Beavis & Butt-Head and Ren & Stimpy — into a six-issue comic book line distributed through Walmart at enormous print runs. As a creator-owned work developed from McFarlane's own character sketches and scripted by Beau Smith, it predates McFarlane's later team books and stands as an overlooked early example of Image pursuing non-superhero, youth-aimed publishing.
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Todd McFarlane conceived Boof and the supporting cast — including Bunny, Zeek, Opee, Caddy, and Sarge — from character designs he developed at a high school, later fleshing them out as the basis for a line of comics and figures aimed at Walmart's mass-market audience. McFarlane brought in writer Beau Smith to script the material into two simultaneous six-part series: Boof and Boof and the Bruise Crew, both launched in 1994. The first printing of Boof #1 carried interior art by Tim Harkins, while subsequent reprint variants featured art by John Cleary, who drew in a style visually derived from McFarlane's own work.
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- First appearance of Boof, a character conceived and designed by Todd McFarlane.
- Written by Beau Smith; first-printing interior art by Tim Harkins; reprint variant art by John Cleary.
- Published by Image Comics in 1994; first printing dated April 1994, with cover-dated July 1994 reprint variants also in circulation.
- The series was designed as a mass-market Walmart title, with reported orders of 300,000 copies per issue for that retail channel, alongside a separate direct-market run.
- Story titles in the first printing are 'Crashin'' and 'The Party'; story titles vary between first printings and reprint variants.
- Issue #1 exists in at least two distinct cover variants: the standard orange-title edition and a #1B green-title variant.
- Boof ran for six issues (1994), concurrent with a companion series, Boof and the Bruise Crew, also six issues.
- Boof and the Bruise Crew were revived in 2023 as guest stars in Local Man: Gold, a one-shot by Tim Seeley and Tony Fleecs published by Image Comics.
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