Gerard Jones

Gerard Jones
Born (1957-07-10) July 10, 1957
Cut Bank, Montana, United States
Occupation Nonfiction writer, novelist, short story writer, comic book writer
Website
gerardjones.blogspot.com

Gerard Jones (born July 10, 1957) is an American author and comic book writer.

Biography

Jones was born in Cut Bank, Montana, and raised in Los Gatos and Gilroy, California. He currently resides in San Francisco, where he teaches writing classes at the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, a workspace co-operative that also includes Po Bronson, Caroline Paul, Tom Barbash, Peter Orner, Jason Roberts, and Laura Jane Fraser, among others.[1]

From 1983 to 1988, Jones and Will Jacobs were contributors to National Lampoon magazine. They also wrote a humor book, The Beaver Papers, parodying the TV series Leave It to Beaver, and a history of comics, The Comic Book Heroes: From the Silver Age to the Present. He and Jacobs returned to humorous fiction in 2014 with The Beaver Papers 2 and My Pal Splendid Man.[2]

From 1987 to 2001, Jones wrote comic books for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Viz Media, Malibu Comics and other publishers, including such series as Green Lantern,[3] Justice League,[4] Prime, Ultraforce, El Diablo, Wonder Man, Martian Manhunter, Elongated Man, The Shadow, Pokémon, Batman and, with Jacobs, The Trouble with Girls.[5]

Since 1993, Jones has been primarily a writer of non-fiction books, mainly concerning American culture and media, including television comedy (Honey I'm Home), violence in entertainment (Killing Monsters), and comic book history (Men of Tomorrow, which won an Eisner Award in 2005). He appears in Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman, American Masters: Lucille Ball, Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America, and other documentaries.[6]

Awards

Bibliography

Books

Comics

Comics work includes:

References

  1. San Francisco Writers' Grotto
  2. Atomic Drop Press
  3. Manning, Matthew K.; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1990s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. Writer Gerard Jones and penciller Pat Broderick jump-started the further adventures of Hal [Jordan] and company by beginning Green Lantern's third ongoing series, which would last an impressive 181 issues.
  4. Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 252: "With the [Justice League] titles spearheaded by Superman mainstay Dan Jurgens, writer Gerard Jones and artists Rick Burchett and Ron Randall jumped on board as well to help revitalize the franchise."
  5. Gerard Jones at the Grand Comics Database
  6. imdb

External links

Preceded by
James Owsley
Green Lantern writer
1990–1994
Succeeded by
Ron Marz
Preceded by
Dan Vado
Justice League America writer
1994–1996
Succeeded by
Grant Morrison
Preceded by
J. M. DeMatteis
Justice League Europe writer
1990–1994
Succeeded by
n/a
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