Jeff Jones (artist)

Jeffrey Catherine Jones
Jeffrey Catherine Jones by Michael Netzer
Born	Jeffrey Durwood Jones (1944-01-10)January 10, 1944 Atlanta, Georgia, US
Died	May 19, 2011(2011-05-19) (aged 67)
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Artist

Jeffrey Catherine Jones (January 10, 1944 – May 19, 2011) was an American artist whose work is best known from the late 1960s through 2000s. Jones provided over 150 covers for many different types of books through 1976, as well as venturing into fine art during and after this time. Artist Frank Frazetta called Jones "the greatest living painter". Although Jones first achieved fame as simply Jeff Jones and lived for a time as male, she later changed her name and was legally recognized as female.

Jeffrey Durwood Jones was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. As a child, her father was overseas in the military. She was a graduate of Georgia State College and admired the work of Johannes Vermeer, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Rembrandt.

Jones' first published comic book work appeared in Blazing Combat #1 (Oct. 1965) published by Warren Publishing. 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. For a period during the early 1970s she also contributed illustrations to Ted White's Fantastic. Jones drew many covers and short stories for a variety of comics publishers including DC Comics, Skywald Publications, and Warren but generally avoided the superhero genre.

Jones was nominated for the Hugo Award for best fan artist in 1967, and for the best professional artist Hugo in 1970, 1971, and 1972. In 1975 she was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for best artist, and won the award in 1986. Additionally, Jones was nominated for the Chesley Award in 1999.