Creepy Magazine # 29 Page 13 by Jeffrey Catherine Jones, with a Script by Archie Goodwin
there was a limited edition copy of the first Game of Thrones book (a Song of Ice and Fire) that was illustrated by Jeffrey Catherine Jones.
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Cygnus: the Drawings of (Jeffrey) Catherine Jones.
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an "I'm Age" strip from the October 1982 issue of Heavy Metal, by Jeffrey Catherine Jones.
And sometimes, not often, the art's so good that I don't any part of the strip to make any sense.
Although IIRC that only applies to Jones' strips, this and Idyl in NatLamp.
A definitive tone emerges if you read several of the strips, but yeah - taken on their own, the point of the story is nearly indecipherable.
What’s interesting is how often Jones went back to their artistically ideal character, a young woman. And in the case of Idyl, she was perpetually a pregnant young woman. The strips themselves are all like this - gorgeously illustrated with almost nothing connecting them narratively except the themes of womanhood and flawless illustration. View a bunch of them in sequence, and Jones’s journey becomes much more predictable.
an "I'm Age" strip from the October 1982 issue of Heavy Metal, by Jeffrey Catherine Jones.
Paintings by Jeffrey Catherine Jones.
She is, hands down, the best painter to who have worked in comics. Frank Frazetta, who is almost universally referred to as the premiere fantasy artist of the 20th century, called Jones "the best living painter".
He was right.
There is an ethereal lightness to her work that defies definition and imitation. And it looks like it was brought forth fully formed. Even her preliminary pencil drawings are clear indications of what she was intending to paint.
As with all illustrative work, her paintings and her life reflect the time she was with us. The best description I have heard of Jeff Jones in the 1960s-mid 1990s is "terribly troubled". Wonderful person, lots and lots of unexpressed sadness and torment. She finally accepted her truth and became who she always was in the late 1990s. She still had her problems, as we all do. Her website notes a mental breakdown in the early 2000s. But, to all those that knew and loved her, Catherine is who she always was. And she died as she wished. She died whole.
Happy Pride Month, ya'll. The best painter in comics history was a transwoman.
*the little kid was a pediatric care magazine cover. the rest were fantasy paperback covers, fantasy magazine illustrations, and pinups for various novels and art collections.*
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Come on founder/king of Athens, aren’t u gonna slay the Bull of Minos or not?
Huh...
Huh...
“Slay”, huh.
I did a whole post about this a while ago.
I think it got lost because I blocked somebody or something. Whatever.
Look at pictures of the Sistine Chapel. No seriously. Look:
The men look like this:
And the women, almost across the board, look like this:
So, I beg ya’ll. Look at the Sistine Chapel and then come back and tell me that Michaelangelo was not GAY AS FUCK.
Look at the statues and the details given to the male figures by the great romance and renaissance artists, and try to defend the overt sexuality of the male figures, especially compared to the female figure work. It’s kind of hilarious, to be honest.
Leonardo Da Vinci first showed up on the public record because he was caught fucking another guy around his age under a tree next to the main road on the way to Florence. Like, in full view of everyone at mid-day, Da Vinci was balls deep in some -presumably- twunky fella. Da Vinci avoided all legal repercussions because a wealthy family from Da Vinci backed him as a patron of his artistic talents. Gay as fuck. Changing a nine dollar bill in 3s.
Homosexuality, bisexuality, being transgendered, and everything that I’m horribly insensitive for not mentioning by name? All of it has been a part of human culture since there has been humans. That means it’s natural.
…And most of you goddamn queers are creative as hell. Keep at it. And keep it up.
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Star Reach Magazine, Vol. 1 # 06*, by Jeffrey Catherine Jones.
*this is the first appearance of Elric.*
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Vampirella #5: An Axe to Grind by Jeff Jones, cover by Frank Frazetta
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Jeffrey Catherine Jones’ “Portfolio One”, published in 1973 by Goblin Graphix.
some more black and white artwork by the late Jeffrey Catherine Jones.
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some Black and White artwork by the late (Jeff) Catherine Jones.
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Cygnus: the Drawings of (Jeffrey) Catherine Jones.
the August 1972 issue of Fantastic Science Fiction & Fantasy Stories Magazine had a cover that was illustrated by the late J. Catherine Jones.