Background
Jones was born in Cut Bank, Montana, and raised in Los Gatos and Gilroy, California.
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One of the longest running independent series of all time The Trouble With Girls created by Will Jacobs and Eisner award winning writer Gerard Jones. Originally published by Malibu, this groundbreaking serise crossed all the lines.
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Animated by the stories of some of the last century's most charismatic and conniving artists, writers, and businessmen, Men of Tomorrow brilliantly demonstrates how the creators of the superheroes gained their cultural power and established a crucial place in the modern imagination. "This history of the birth of superhero comics highlights three pivotal figures. The story begins early in the last century, on the Lower East Side, where Harry Donenfeld rises from the streets to become the king of the 'smooshes'-soft-core magazines with titles like French Humor and Hot Tales. Later, two high school friends in Cleveland, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, become avid fans of 'scientifiction,' the new kind of literature promoted by their favorite pulp magazines. The disparate worlds of the wise guy and the geeks collide in 1938, and the result is Action Comics #1, the debut of Superman. For Donenfeld, the comics were a way to sidestep the censors. For Shuster and Siegel, they were both a calling and an eventual source of misery: the pair waged a lifelong campaign for credit and appropriate compensation." -The New Yorker
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The Comic Book Heroes begins with that first issue of the Flash, an event that would alter American pop culture forever. It’s the story both of the superheroes and their all-too-human creators. From "the avuncular chipmunk," Julius Schwartz, to Todd McFarlane and his bloody Spawn, the writers, artists, and editors have cast the heroes for generations of American kids in the mold of their own personalities and inner struggles. From the Flash’s 1956 debut until his death in 1986, from the relevance movement of the '70s to the ultra-violence of the '90s, and from the kid-driven market of the past to the speculator-driven market of the present, The Comic Book Heroes shows how America has changed since the '50s—and makes some provocative points about what America’s kids are reading today. Completely revised and updated from the 1985 edition, The Comic Book Heroes is the most complete, engaging, and opinionated history of comics ever. Mind-blowingly detailed, breathtakingly informative, and fascinating reading, this is the one history of comics you absolutely must have! About the Authors Gerard Jones has written the adventures of the world’s greatest heroes, including the Justice League, Batman, and Green Lantern for DC Comics, and the X-Men, the Hulk, and his own creation, Prime, for Marvel Comics. Will Jacobs is a former contributing editor to The National Lampoon and the cocreator (with Jones) of the comic book series, The Trouble with Girls.
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Spawned from the late 80's halcyon days in comics, this hilarious romp pokes unapologetic fun at everyone and lives to tell about it, laying waste to the James Bond super agent stereotype years before Austin Powers. How much adventure can one man take? Collects issues 8-14 of the hilarious Malibu series.
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Thirty years ago, The Beaver Papers chronicled the efforts of the world’s literary community to save the iconic sitcom Leave It to Beaver from cancellation. Along with a behind-the scenes look at what went on at the studio during that enchanted summer, the book contained such scripts as Tennessee Williams’s Beaver on a Hot Tin Roof, Yukio Mishima’s The Sound of Beaver, Jack Webb’s Red Beaver, and Ernest Hemingway’s A Clean, Well-Lighted Beaver, as well as such classic homages as Herman Hesse’s Beaverwolf and Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Cleaver...twenty-five scripts that destroyed once and for all the shadowy border between high art and popular culture. Now, for this 30th Anniversary Edition, we present the entire original edition, along with a new introduction from the authors, a foreword by Lionel Endenberry (The Max Kleinman Reader), and a sneak preview of two scripts from the long-awaited sequel, The Beaver Papers 2, coming soon from Atomic Drop Press.
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( Children choose their heroes more carefully than we thi...)
Children choose their heroes more carefully than we think. From Pokémon to the rapper Eminem, pop-culture icons are not simply commercial pied pipers who practice mass hypnosis on our youth. Indeed, argues the author of this lively and persuasive paean to the power of popular culture, even trashy or violent entertainment gives children something they need, something that can help both boys and girls develop in a healthy way. Drawing on a wealth of true stories, many gleaned from the fascinating workshops he conducts, and basing his claims on extensive research, including interviews with psychologists and educators, Gerard Jones explains why validating our children's fantasies teaches them to trust their own emotions and build stronger selves.
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The Navajos have Salaam Ali, the deposed mayor of Detroit. But they don't want to kill him, and they don't want to torture him. Far worse: they want to make him the mayor of Las Vegas! Oktane's earning his keep by keeping Ali out of office, and if that means heading face-first into urban warfare and a final fight with the bizarre God Zero...he's there!
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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 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 television series Leave lieutenant 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.
From 1987 to 2001, Jones wrote comic books for Marvel, District of Columbia, Dark Horse, Viz Media, Malibu and other publishers, including such series as Green Lantern, Justice League, Prime, Ultraforce, El Diablo, Wonder Manitoba, Martian Manhunter, Elongated Manitoba, The Shadow, Pokémon, Batman and, with Jacobs, The Trouble with Girls. He appears in Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman, American Masters: Lucille Ball, Make "Econometrica Laugh: The Funny Business of America, and other documentaries.
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(Spawned from the late 80's halcyon days in comics, this h...)
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(One of the longest running independent series of all time...)
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( Children choose their heroes more carefully than we thi...)
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