Category: Jeffrey “Jeff” Catherine Jones

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Look Here: Three “Zanthar” paperbacks, with cover art by Jeffrey Jones

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There were four books in the “Zanthar” series by Robert Moore Williams — Zanthar of the Many Worlds (1967), Zanthar at the Edge of Never (1968), Zanthar at Moon’s Madness (1968) and Zanthar at Trip’s End (1969) — but as far as I can determine, only the first, third, and fourth volumes had cover art by Jeffrey Jones. I’ve posted two of Jones’s “Zanthar” covers previously on RCN at a smaller size; now here are all three covers, re-scanned where necessary, and displayed in order of publication:

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Keywords: Zanthar of the Many Worlds, Zanthar at Moon’s Madness, Zanthar at Trip’s End.

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Look Here: Five occult paperbacks by Peter Saxon, with cover art by Jeffrey Jones

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I’ve posted some of these covers before, but I recently purchased some copies that, in a couple of instances, and for various reasons (like this, for example), are nicer than the books I scanned previously, so here I am to share with you:

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Keywords: The Guardians, The Killing Bone, Dark Ways to Death, The Haunting of Alan Mais, The Vampires of Finistere, Satan’s Child.

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Look There: Most of the Sci-Fi digest illustrations by Jeffrey Jones, published from 1967 to 1975

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— THE GOLDEN AGE —

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After I posted the above link, the thought occurred to me that many of those illustrations by Jones are exactly the right proportion for bookmarks. So I used Irfanview to quickly assemble a panoramic image of five of the nicest family-friendly images, added some light grey guidelines so I could cut them out with a box cutter and a metal ruler, printed them off at the highest quality on a full sheet of glossy photo paper, carefully sliced along the guidelines, and basked in the glow of my very own Jones bookmarks.

DIY Jones Bookmarked - trimmed and untrimmed

Here’s my file for you to download and print some bookmarks for yourself, too. Give it a try! If you keep your expectations low, and you have a good printer and good photo paper at your disposal, you just might be pleasantly surprised how nice the bookmarks look when you’re done.

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Look Here: Another couple of R.E.H. covers, with wraparound art by Jones

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From the paperback collection of yours truly, here are two more classic Zebra/Kensington covers, with wrap-around art by Jeffrey Jones:

To view all of the Zebra/Kensington editions of Robert E. Howard’s books with Jones covers that I’ve posted so far, click here.

Keywords: Tigers of the Sea, The Second Book of Robert E. Howard, Cormac Mac Art.

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Look Here: Original art for an “I’m Age” strip by Jeffrey Jones

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Here’s a scan of the original art for the installment of “I’m Age” by Jeffrey Jones that appeared in Heavy Metal, vol. 5, no. 11 (February 1982):

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And here’s the strip as it appeared in print:

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Look Here: LORD GREYSTOKE print by Jeffrey Jones

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UPDATE (12 February 2013):

Earlier today, the producer/director/writer of Better Things: The Life and Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Maria Cabardo, posted the following picture of Gray Morrow to her Facebook photo album:

The photo was taken by Jeffrey Jones, and I recognized the pose and lighting immediately! Very cool to see! To his credit, and to the great benefit of his painting, Jones didn’t succumb to the desire to spell everything out, to invent all of the forms that he couldn’t make out in his reference photo, but instead simply embraced the idea of lost edges.

If you are able, please contribute to Maria’s Indiegogo fundraiser for Better Things. Documentary films about illustrators and comics artists are few and far between, but if you want more, you need to step up and support the intrepid filmmakers who are willing to stride out on a limb and make it happen. The perks/rewards are cool, and because Maria has chosen to run a “Flexible Funding campaign,” all of the perks will be delivered even if the total money raised does not match the stated goal. In other words, if you contribute at the level to get the art book (for instance), you WILL receive the art book.

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Connections: Hal Foster vs. Frank Frazetta

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Yesterday over at Golden Age Comic Book Stories, the intrepid Mr. Door Tree posted a beautiful collection of Tarzan dailies by Hal Foster. As I browsed through the images, one panel in particular leaped out at me…

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Compare those Tarzan dailies with Idyl, and I think you’ll be amazed at how much Jeffrey Jones in the 1970s styled his work in pen/brush and ink after the early comic-strip work of Hal Foster.

See also: Connections: Frazetta vs. Ferri

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Louise Simonson on Frank Frazetta, Jeffrey Jones, and photo reference…

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=25tkCaVablg

Below is a partial transcript of the above clip, with bold added for emphasis:

“Well, when Jeff did work for Warren, I wasn’t there [working for Warren] yet. I was, uhm, working in advertising promotion and, for another publisher, a magazine publisher in the city [New York]. Uhm, I think during this time Jeff may have discovered using reference? And it made a huge difference in his work. I remember at one point he, he, it suddenly occurred to him… okay, all right, back in the olden days there was a story that Frank Frazetta said that he never used reference and anybody who used reference was cheating. So a generation of young artists grew up thinking using reference is bad and cheating and this is, I don’t know, I don’t know why Frank did that because I know he used reference, I know he did. [Laughter.] Uhm, anyway, so I guess at one point Jeff just cracked and started using reference and his work got, it took a huge leap forward, so I do remember that, and I believe that was, maybe some of that might have been during the Warren period. Uhm, he just did a few things for Warren. He didn’t do that much.”

— Louise Simonson, Better Things Panel, San Diego Comic Con 2011

“My work looks the way it looks because I shoot reference.
I need that information, then I can play with it.” — Jeffrey Jones, in conversation with George Pratt

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BONUS SCAN:

From my very own library of brittle old paperbacks:

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To view all of the Zebra/Kensington editions of Robert E. Howard’s books with Jones covers that I’ve posted so far, click here.

Keywords: The Vultures of Whapeton.