For my first article, I will be talking about one of my favorite Graphic Novel which introduced me to the media, Bone. I don't know what caught my interest in reading this but if I recall correctly, I remember being in a large comic book store when I was young, in High school and looking through monstrous shelf of large volumes of Graphic Novel collections. Looking through the books which had a majority of violent, dark and gritty themes, I found one that had a rather simplistic character on it called Bone.
I was intrigued and decided to skim through the book a bit. For some reason, I had no opinion on it but the image of the book cover and title stuck with me until the day I decided to ask my parents to get the complete collection for me. After getting it for christmas, I read that book ever day, looking at the pen work of Jeff Smith, the creator of the series, and getting immersed in the stories world with its vast and interesting characters.

One of the things that always made this series interesting is that the titular characters are very cartoony and would fit in a very stylized newspaper cartoon while the area they go through is sort of a high fantasy Conan the barbarian themed land with dragons, rat creatures and princesses. The contrast between the characters always stood out to me but it never felt like they were to out of place. I also was surprised to see how dark this story got near the end, there's a couple of deaths of some of the main characters, there's a major war happening and the story is not afraid to show blood and gore. There's also quite a number of twists and turns that did catch me off guard although there was was one that I did kind of expect (Like the girl being a princess, pretty cliche in my book)

Overall, after reading it again, I still think it's a graphic novel worth reading. With it's attractive art, unique characters and large and epic story, I kind definitely recommend this to anyone looking for something interesting to read.