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.[4] He is best known for his work as cover artist on various
In 1999, Jones and writer Devin K. Grayson introduced the Yelena Belova character in the Black Widow limited series.[6] The following year, Jones worked with writer Grant Morrison on the Marvel Boy limited series.[7] Jones' other interior art credits include Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia 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,[8] 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."[9]
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5.Alan Cowsill. DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle Dorling Kindersley, 2010^
6.Matthew K. Manning. Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History Dorling Kindersley, 2008^
7.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."^
8.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."^
