Jeff Jones Movie

August 6, 2010 6:37 AM

MaCab Films is producing a documentary on artist Jeffrey Catherine Jones. Trailers for the film here and here. Jones is known for her comic book work, fantasy and science-fiction cover paintings, and romantic paintings, usually of women. Some links may be NSFW if your work has problems with impressionistic and artistic paintings of unclothed women.

The artist's home page, with lots o' paintings. Interview with the artist from 2004.

And finally: don't dry your art in the microwave.

posted by marxchivist (13 comments total)

I've always been a huge fan of Jones' work, and was heartbroken to hear about the problems she was having in the past. I'm glad to see she's back to living a good life and producing work again. Her work illustrates some of my favorite novels ever, and were always a sign in a used book store that the work might be worth reading. And even when the novels were trash, the covers were a joy.
posted by strixus at 6:55 AM on August 6, 2010

Not to be confused with this Jeffrey Jones.
posted by Faint of Butt at 7:10 AM on August 6, 2010

I'm a bit weirded out by MaCab's insistence on the male pronoun in their release texts, avoidance of "Catherine" in the blog material and trailers, and the fact that they jump on Rick Berry talking about "being a freak" with both feet. The trailers seem to be focused on examining Jones' pre-transition work, and I'm assuming good faith on MaCab's part, but I get a bit twitchy when there's such effort to not mention Jones' recent history. I'm hoping this won't be the "shock" or "twist" to the documentary, I guess.
posted by Shepherd at 7:22 AM on August 6, 2010

Well, the fantasy cover paintings are oughta-be-ashamed Frazetta ripoffs.
posted by Trochanter at 7:58 AM on August 6, 2010

She pretty much moved on past the obvious Frazetta influence stage. A lot of the better fantasy/science fiction/comic book artists of her generation went through a Frazetta period.
posted by marxchivist at 8:11 AM on August 6, 2010

The Idyls used to appear in National Lampoon, right?
posted by Trochanter at 8:21 AM on August 6, 2010

I'm sure I've seen Idyl before somewhere...
posted by Mister_A at 9:22 AM on August 6, 2010

that movie might be amazing, but those trailers were awful. Not just in the way that some trailers are poorly edited or uninformative, but it actually causes you to doubt the ability of the people involved in the movie. "This movie has been approved for creative audiences?" really? and all the terrible lines about art not hiding pain and all that shit. ugh. The camera work was nice, but if you're going to make a movie about one person's intense difficulty in life and her artwork, don't act like the movie is all about you as an artist or hold them up as some kind of litmus test about your audience.
posted by shmegegge at 9:49 AM on August 6, 2010

Well, the fantasy cover paintings are oughta-be-ashamed Frazetta ripoffs.

Did you see the blurb from Frazetta on the front page of her site?
posted by Halloween Jack at 10:23 AM on August 6, 2010

Also... Man, it's been a long time since I've seen her comic work.

Also also: holy crap, she's Louise Simonson's ex? Small freakin' world.
posted by Halloween Jack at 10:27 AM on August 6, 2010

I'm sure I've seen Idyl before somewhere...

Did you read Heavy Metal in the 80s? I know they used to appear there.
posted by lekvar at 11:35 AM on August 6, 2010

Idyl was featured quite regularly in the National Lampoon's early (70's) issues.
posted by TDavis at 12:14 PM on August 6, 2010

TDavis, I thought I remembered that, but then I couldn't think if it was Lampoon or Heavy Metal.

Well, the fantasy cover paintings are oughta-be-ashamed Frazetta ripoffs.
Did you see the blurb from Frazetta on the front page of her site?

Look, who are you going to listen to.
posted by Trochanter at 12:29 PM on August 6, 2010