Gerard Jones

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Gerard Jones
Born	July 10, 1957 (1957-07-10) Cut Bank, Montana, United States
Occupation	Nonfiction writer, Novelist, Short story writer, comic book writer
www.gerardjones.com

Gerard Jones (born July 10, 1957) is an award-winning 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 is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.

Jones is author of the Eisner Award-winning Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book (2004); Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Superheroes and Make-Believe Violence (2002), and Honey I'm Home: Sitcoms Selling the American Dream (1993).

From 1987 to 2001, Jones wrote many comic books for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Viz Media, Malibu Comics and other publishers; including Green Lantern, Justice League, Prime, Ultraforce, El Diablo, Wonder Man, Martian Manhunter, Elongated Man, The Shadow, Pokémon, and Batman.

Jones is co-author with Will Jacobs of The Beaver Papers (1983), The Comic Book Heroes (1985, 1996), and the comic book The Trouble with Girls (1987–1993). From 1983 to 1988, Jacobs and Jones were contributors to National Lampoon magazine. He and Jacobs began writing humorous fiction again in 2008 with the online series My Pal Splendid Man and Million Dollar Ideas.

Jones 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.

Bibliography

Books

Books written include:

• The Beaver Papers: The Story of the Lost Season (with Will Jacobs, Crown Publishers, 1984, ISBN 978-0517549919)
• Honey I'm Home: Sitcoms Selling the American Dream (St. Martin's Griffin, 1993, ISBN 978-0312088101)
• The Comic Book Heroes: The First History of Modern Comic Books - From the Silver Age to the Present (with Will Jacobs, Crown Publishing Group 1985, 1996 - revised edition - ISBN 0517554402 )
• Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Superheroes and Make-Believe Violence (Basic Books, 2003, ISBN 978-0465036967)
• Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book (Basic Books, 2005, ISBN 978-0465036578)
• The Undressing of America: How a Bodybuilder, a Swimming Queen and a Magician Created Reality Media (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. forthcoming)

Comics

Comics work includes:

• The Trouble with Girls (with Will Jacobs and Tim Hamilton, Malibu Comics, 1987, tpb, Checker Book Publishing Group, 2006, ISBN 978-1933160450)
• Oktane (with Gene Ha, Dark Horse Comics, 1996, ISBN 978-1569712122)
• Martian Manhunter: American Secrets, DC Comics

Films

• Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book

In an interview with Web and Comics journalist Nicholas Yanes of Scifipulse.net, Jones was asked if there were any plans to turn "Men of Tomorrow" into a film. He responded by stating the following: "I sold the screenplay to Michael Uslan at Comic Book Movies, but before we could put it on the market he declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which tied the rights up for over a year in court. The court’s now assigned the script to someone else, but nothing’s happening yet. Meanwhile, a couple of other producers are interested in adapting. Something will happen sooner or later."

References

• Gerard Jones at the Grand Comics Database
• Gerard Jones at the Comic Book DB

External links

• Official website
• Gerard Jones's blog
• Gerard Jones's other blog
• Gerard Jones's page at Red Room
• Gerard Jones at the Internet Movie Database

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 None