model from 1991 to 2004, 55 issues in all, with Image Comics publishing issues #21-27, before returning to Cartoon Books for issues #28-55. The series was also coloured and reprinted as part of Disney Adventures, gathering ten Eisner Awards during its run. The series follows Fone Bone and his two cousins, Phoncible P."Phoney" Bone and Smiley Bone through a fantasy land, trying to get by and find purpose in a classic cartoony fashion.
From February 2005 to January 2009, Scholastic Graphix began reissuing in both hardcover and paperback the individual volumes in full colour byfor North America, while from 2006, HarperCollins began publishing the colour editions for the UK market. In 2008, Warner Bros. Pictures bought the film rights to the series, with three planned CGI animated films, to be written bywas attached to direct, though in 2016 Mark Osborne was hired as director for Warner Animation Group, as well as writing the films along with Adam Kline. Dropped by Warners, in 2019, the project was picked up by Netflix for an animated series.