Jeff Smith

First with his magisterial fantasy Bone to his mind-bending, time-warping sci-fi noir RASL , Paleolithic-set fantasy Tüki: Save the Humans , arthouse-styled superheroic miniseries Shazam! , and his latest children’s book Smiley’s Dream Book , Jeff Smith (b. 1960) has made an indelible mark on the comics industry. As a child, Smith was drawn to Charles Schulz’s Peanuts , Carl Barks’s Donald Duck , and Walt Kelly’s Pogo , and he began the daily practice of drawing his own stories. After writing hi