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Jamie Jones, who calls Heroes Haven Comics in Tampa Florida home, has been coming up to Terrificon in Connecticut for the past 3 years now. Heroes Haven may sound familiar as they have exclusive covers for various comic book such as Ghostbusters/TMNT and Star Wars #1. Among the other variants that can be found at Haven, Jones has created covers for a few of them including Five Ghosts and Solar: Man of the Atom which was his first published work as well. Jones’s style is a wonderfully detailed ink wash where the graying effects give the images some real depth. Like many artist, Jamie started with pencils and inks before finding his own style which always catches my fascination. Jamie draws from inspiration of other ink wash artists such as the famous Will Eisner or more recently, Joe Shuster award winner Francis Manapul.
Jones will spend about an hour and a half to bring a drawing from rough pencils to get a figure on paper with some facial features, to going straight into inks where the piece really start coming together. Finally finishing off the tones of the figure with ink wash that can really make or break the piece of illustration. Heroes and villains from Marvel and DC Comics are among his commissioned artworks along with his own comic Dodger, but with each piece of artwork you can see a second style emerge from his pieces. Jamie admittedly tends to draw characters modeled after himself, more on the skinny side. But that doesn’t stop him from being able to ink a brooding Batman with bulky muscles, “I like my heroes skinny and my bad guys huge. Like Flash vs Grodd, I am in heaven.”
Jamie Jones’s work can be seen in greater story telling detail in the pages of his own comic Dodger, a collection of stories based around a Mech-Suit Spaghetti-Western. The second issue in the series is set to premier at SPX (Small Press Expo) with a small gofundme campaign to pay for print costs. Sadly Jones won’t be in attendance but Tres Dean, the writer of Dodger, will be there.
If I am like most art enthusiasts, the styles you follow may tend to shift every now and again, but I keep coming back to the wonderful ink wash style that I have come to associate with Jamie Jones. Check out my review of the first book of Dodger before you pick up the second collection here!
Born in Boston MA, raised in NH. Fully functioning adult who happens to read any and every comic under the (yellow)sun. Of course there are the favorite comics I must read when they're released, but any comic is fair game in my eyes. Of course my love for pop culture doesn't end with comics, but branches out to movies, toys, video games and most importantly Dungeons and Dragons (which I withheld this last hobby from my Fiancée until she said "Yes").
Point of Origin for my nerdy condition may have been in '93 when I got slimed at Nickelodeon(now closed), and a teenage accident or two(collapsed lungs) landing me in the hospital around the same time the Tobey Maguire Spiderman movies started coming out. When my dad stopped at the local comic store and brought me the essential comics for Spiderman and the X-Men, I stood no chance. (Which also created a secret aspiration to start a fundraiser of sorts to bring comic books to kids in hospitals to keep their spirits up(nothing has come of this to date)) Add in a heavy dose of trip to Disney World, upcoming Disney themed wedding and a career aspiration to become a Disney Imagineer, I think it's safe to say I never want to grow up.
Xbox Live Gamertag: AllusiveReaper7
(If you notice my xbox achievement score, you might assume I game a bit)
Twitter: @AllusiveReaper7
Recent comic addictions(Non "Big Two"): Saga, Crossed, Coffin Hill, Rat Queens, Pathfinder and Rover Red Charlie
Collects: Old Comics (Green Lama), Miniatures (D&D, Heroclix, Star Wars), Action Figures preferably 90s and older, and comic book themed hats
Systems Owned: NES (though it was my sister's), Game Boy(The gray brick), Sega Genesis, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, Game Boy Advanced, Nintendo DS, Xbox, Xbox360, Wii, Xbox One, Junk PC
