Jeffrey Catherine Jones

Born: January 10th 1944 passed May 19th 2011

Education: Georgia State College 1967 with a degree in geology.

Upon graduation from Georgia State College, moved to NYC so that his wife and college sweet heart could pursue an art Career (Louise Alexander, now known as Louise Simonson), but divorced in the early 1970s.

Jones quickly found work drawing comics pages for King Comics, Gold Key Comics, Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella, as well as Wally Wood’s Witzend. Jones painted covers for books, including the Ace paperback editions of Fritz Leiber\'s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series and Andre Norton\'s Postmarked the Stars, The Zero Stone, Uncharted Stars and many others… generally Jones avoided the superhero genre.

From 1975 to 1979 workspace in Manhattan’s Chelsea district was shared with Bernie Wrightson, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Michael William Kaluta, collectively named The Studio; Dragon’s Dream produced a volume of their work in 1979.

Gender transition: As an adult, Jones recalled wanting to be a girl from her earliest memories. She confronted these issues in 1998 and began hormone replacement therapy. Jones did not know how to cope with her yearning to be female, and felt ashamed. For years she tried to drown these feelings in alcohol, but, after much soul-searching, Jones realized that although she’d been born male, inside she was a woman. She began hormone replacement therapy in 1998, and set out upon a new phase of life as a woman, changing her name to Jeffrey Catherine Jones. Yet even this transition did not bring peace to this gentle, troubled artist, for in 2001, she suffered a nervous breakdown, which led to the loss of her home and studio. However, she eventually recovered, and by 2004 began painting and drawing again.

Awards:

Hugo award 1967 for best fan art

Hugo awards for best professional artist 1970, 1971, 1972,

World Fantasy Award 1986

Image Gallery: https://americangallery.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/jeffrey-catherine-jones-1944-2011/

Documentary film: better things: the life and choices of jeffrey catherine jones

Jeffrey Catherine Jones History of American Illustration