J. G. Jones Explained

Nationality:American
Pencil:y
Ink:y
Notable Works:52 (covers)
Final Crisis
Marvel Boy
Wanted
Awards:2006 Cover Artist of the Year (Wizard)

Jeffrey Glen Jones[1] is an American comics artist who is known for his work on titles such as Wanted and Final Crisis.

Early life

Jones hails from Walker, Louisiana[2] and attended Louisiana State University and the University at Albany, SUNY where he received his Master of Fine Arts degree.[3]

Career

J. G. Jones made his debut in the comics industry in 1994 by drawing Dark Dominion for Defiant Comics. He is best known for his work as cover artist on various comic book series, including a stint on Brian K. Vaughan's [4] and for DC Comics, the six-issue limited series Villains United written by Gail Simone, as well as all 52 covers for the maxi-series 52.

In 1999, Jones and writer Devin K. Grayson introduced the Yelena Belova character in the Black Widow limited series.[5] The following year, Jones worked with writer Grant Morrison on the Marvel Boy limited series.[6] Jones' other interior art credits include written by Greg Rucka and Mark Millar's Wanted published by Top Cow Productions.

Jones was intended to be the sole artist on the Grant Morrison DC limited series Final Crisis. Due to delays, Jones was assisted by artists Carlos Pacheco, Marco Rudy, and Doug Mahnke for issues #4–6,[7] and replaced for issue #7 by Mahnke. Jones noted that "Any problems completing the series are my own. I love Doug Mahnke’s art, and he would have probably been a better choice to draw this series in the first place."[8]

Since then Jones has been mostly providing covers for DC Comics on titles such as Batman and Robin, Doc Savage, Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. and Mister Terrific. Writer Brian Azzarello and Jones collaborated on the Before Watchmen: Comedian limited series in 2012–2013.[9] [10] Jones and writer Mark Waid produced Strange Fruit for Boom! Studios in July 2015.[11]

Bibliography

Interior work

"The Face You Had Before You Were Born" (with Tony Bedard, one-shot, Crusade Comics, 1997)

Comedian #1–6 (with Brian Azzarello, DC Comics, 2012–2013)

Covers only

What Price Glory? #2 (Marvel Comics, 2003)

Requiem #1 (DC Comics, 2008)

Awards and nominations

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: J. G. Jones. 19 September 2014. Lambiek Comiclopedia. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034049/https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jones_jg.htm. 1 December 2017. live. mdy-all. Jeffrey Glen Jones is an American comic book artist, who is best known as J.G. Jones..
  2. Web site: J.G. Jones: Man of Bronze. Jeffrey. Renaud. 27 January 2011. Comic Book Resources. https://web.archive.org/web/20131108115517/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=30539. 8 November 2013. live. mdy-all. 8 December 2013. One of those creators, J.G. Jones, is about to fulfill a fantasy he's held since he was a young boy growing up in Walker, Louisiana..
  3. Web site: J. G. Jones. 2013. Wizard Entertainment. https://web.archive.org/web/20130909175532/http://www.wizardworld.com/jgjones.html. 9 September 2013 . live. mdy-all.
  4. Book: Cowsill, Alan. Dolan. Hannah, ed.. 2000s. DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. 2010. London, United Kingdom. 978-0-7566-6742-9 . 307. With distinctively painted covers by J. G. Jones, Yorick's quest to reach his fiancé, Beth Deville, in Australia proved gripping right up to its touching and thoughtful conclusion..
  5. Book: Manning, Matthew K.. Gilbert. Laura, ed.. 1990s. Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. Dorling Kindersley. 2008. London, United Kingdom. 294. 978-0756641238. Devin Grayson...made the switch to Marvel in order to orchestrate the first Black Widow miniseries alongside artist J. G. Jones. This new three-issue series pitted Yelena Belova...against Natasha Romanov, the defender and originator of the Black Widow name..
  6. Manning "2000s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 301: "Writer Grant Morrison and artist J. G. Jones introduced a new Marvel Boy in this six-issue Marvel Knights miniseries."
  7. Cowsill "2000s" in Dolan, p. 334: "The main series, with art by J. G. Jones (joined on later issues by Carlos Pacheco and Doug Mahnke), had a visually dramatic conclusion as an army of pan-dimensional Supermen teamed up to save the world from the effects of Darkseid's Anti-Life Equation."
  8. Web site: J.G. Jones Apologizes For Unfinished Final Crisis Work. Renaud. Jeffrey. 21 October 2008. Comic Book Resources. https://web.archive.org/web/20131025134728/http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=18513. 25 October 2013. live. mdy-all. 21 October 2008.
  9. Web site: Before Watchmen is a bad idea, fans say. Mayer. Nissim. 7 February 2012. Digital Spy. https://web.archive.org/web/20130702155442/http://www.digitalspy.com/comics/news/a364345/before-watchmen-is-a-bad-idea-fans-say.html. 2 July 2013. live. mdy-all.
  10. Web site: DC Entertainment Announces Official Publication Date for Before Watchmen. 12 March 2012. DC Comics. https://web.archive.org/web/20131028052509/http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2012/03/12/dc-entertainment-announces-official-publication-date-for-before-watchmen. 28 October 2013 . live. mdy-all.
  11. Mark Waid and J.G. Jones preview powerful historically based comic, Strange Fruit . Andrea . Towers . 30 June 2015 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20150905091541/http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/30/waid-jones-preview-strange-fruit-comic . 5 September 2015 . live. mdy-all.

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