Transgender comics artist and fantasy illustrator Jeffrey Catherine Jones dies at 67

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Transgender comics artist and fantasy illustrator Jeffrey Catherine Jones died Thursday at 67, reports Comic Book Resources.

Born Jeffrey Jones 1944, the artist celebrated a long career whose highlights included a 1970s run doing cover paintings for major fantasy novels like Fritz Leiber's "Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser" and a number of comics including "Idyl" for "National Lampoons" and "I'm Age" for "Heavy Metal."

From Jones' website:

Some of my early memories come from about the age of 4 or 5. By then I knew I wanted to be a girl. Maybe I was born with a kind of gender inversion-- some call it a birth defect. I know nothing of these things. I do know that my identification has always been with females-- in books, movies, art and life. My best friends have always been female and I have always been exclusively physically attracted to females.

http://www.jeffreyjones-art.com/contents.html


Very sad news. :( RIP to an amazing artist.

[RKP5637]

1. Recommend!!! n/t

[klook]

2. Oh no!

I actually hadn't kept up with Jones, and didn't even know about her new transgendered life. Incredible artist whose work I've enjoyed for many years. Jones's covers for several of Fritz Leiber's "Fafhrd and Gray Mouser" novels are burned into my memory and forever associated with those stories.

So sorry to hear this news, but what a legacy!

[Kurovski]

3. Too young.

K&R. Excellent artist.

[tonekat]

4. RIP

I remember Idyl as one of many things fueling my own dissatisfaction with my own gender back in the 70s. A loss.

[Swede]

5. I just read this post. RIP.

Her artwork will live on.