Gerard Jones
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Gerard Jones is an American writer, born July 10, 1957 in Cut Bank, Montana, raised in Los Gatos and Gilroy, California. He currently resides in San Francisco, where he is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.1
He is not to be confused with another writer of the same name, born in Michigan in 1942 and living in Oregon, author of Ginny Good and creator of the "Everyone Who's Anyone" website.2
Author of Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book (2004), winner of the Eisner Award; Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Superheroes and Make-Believe Violence (2002), and Honey I'm Home: Sitcoms Selling the American Dream (1993).3 His next book, tentatively entitled "The Undressing of America: How a Bodybuilder, a Swimming Queen and a Magician Created Reality Media," will be coming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2009.
From 1987 to 2001 he also 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, Elongated Man, The Shadow, Pokémon, and Batman.4
Coauthor 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 appears in Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman, American Masters: Lucille Ball, and other documentaries.
| Preceded by Bill Willingham |
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 |
[edit] References
1 San Francisco Writers' Grotto website: http://www.sfgrotto.org
2 Grumpy Old Bookman: http://www.grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.com
3 Grand Comics Database: http://www.comics.org
