JEFFREY CATHERINE JONES
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Jeffrey Catherine Jones, the artist behind these decadent covers, got her first gig on an Edgar Rice Burroughs book because she could imitate the dark, doomy dynamism of Frank Frazetta (whose hard-rocking art graced almost every book and album cover of the era). Jones eventually made art for everyone from Screw magazine to DC Comics. She found her own dreamy style, combining Art Nouveau influences with Frazetta’s muscularity to depict liquid human forms in delicate landscapes that kept threatening to dissolve into purely abstract Rorschach blots. From 1975 to 1979, Jones shared studio space with Michael Kaluta, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Bernie Wrightson, and together the four of them helped reinvent American fantasy illustration. Jones was born male, but identified as a woman, and began hormone therapy in 1998. When she passed away in 2011, she had painted at least 150 covers.