Idyl - di Jeff Jones

[elcaracol]

Testi e disegni: Jeff Jones




In the early 1970s when National Lampoon began publication, Jeff Jones had a strip in it for a while called Idyl. (A strip by Jones, taken from Idyl, was used to illustrate the Sonic Arts Network CD publication Otherness, curated by David Cotner in 2007.) From 1975 to 1979 she shared workspace in Manhattan's Chelsea district, with Bernie Wrightson, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Michael William Kaluta, collectively named The Studio; Dragon's Dream produced a volume of their work in 1979. During this time she was living as a man and was married to Louise Jones.

By the early 1980s she had a recurring strip in Heavy Metal titled I'm Age. Cartoonists Walter Simonson and J. D. King said at the time that Jones had a growing interest in expressionism, and did not pursue comic work as closely thereafter.




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Mio padre aveva un numero di Linus e io lo sfogliavo e risfogliavo, da bambino,  per leggere e rileggere Idyl!!!! Jeff Jones è una GRANDISSIMA artista!

[elcaracol]

Grazie, Hush!
Conoscevi?

[Murnau]

Mai sentito. I disegni sembrano belli, ma la storia non si direbbe il mio genere. Inoltre mi pare d'aver capito che non esistano ristampe organiche né qui né in America.

[Akanith Wan]

Interesting!

[elcaracol]

Io ho procurato un volume qualche tempo fa in una bancarella, ma non ce l'ho qui e dunque non ricordo editore o altro. È un'autrice molto sottovalutata e molto poco conosciuta, per cui non c'è molto!

[elcaracol]

E, se vi interessa un p' di gossip, leggete pure qui:
http://www.jeffreyjones-art.com/autobiography.html

E poi nel sito trovate anche un bel po' di cosette, a fumetti e pittoriche!

[Akanith Wan]

Ma questa Jeff Jones prima era un uomo?

[elcaracol]

Legi Some of my early memories come from about the age of 4 or 5.  By then I knew I wanted to be a girl.  Maybe I was born with a kind of gender
inversion-- some call it a birth defect.  I know nothing of these things.  I do know that my identification has always been with females-- in books,
movies, art and life.  My best friends have always been female and I have always been exclusively physically attracted to females.  So, along
comes puberty.  Whoa!  We were all confused, I know, but within that maelstrom was my desire for, and the desire to be, a girl.  Until the age of 12
I knew nothing regarding sexual matters.  I saw boys with girls.  That's what I saw.  In the south, in the '50s there were no gays and no lesbians,
and certainly no one like me.  So I became secretive. In my own mind I became ashamed, guilty and worthless-- this was the road I started down
so long ago.  After many years of therapy, and many years of trying to drink away the shame, I arrived, ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiip in the year 1998.  In August
of that year I decided to stop the denial and start living as a woman.  In October I finally obtained the name of and saw the leading expert on the
subject-- the New York endocrinologist who wrote and rewrote the book.  After extensive tests, both mental and physical, I started hormonal
gender re-assignment therapy.  It's been about ten years now, but back in May blood tests showed that I had become medically female.

[elcaracol]

Consiglio un film stupendo al riguardo: "XXY"!

[Akanith Wan]

Comunque, cosa è stato pubblicato in Italia?

[elcaracol]

Sicuramente roba su Linus anni '70 e questa raccolta di cui vi ho parlato, ma che devo recuperare a casa dei miei per dirvi qual è? Prova su Ebay!

[elcaracol]

Ebay sembra dire: anche sulla mitica 1984!
http://cgi.ebay.it/1984-N-14-MAROTO-CORBEN-JEFF-JONES-IL-MOMENTO-/150343632760?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Riviste_Celebri_a_Fumetti&hash=item23012dc778

[elcaracol]

Per aggiungere gossip. Nella pagina di discussione di en.wiki si dice:
"Louise?

To confirm - this is the one who was married to Louise Simonson, right? DS (talk) 21:03, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

To confirm, yes. According to J. D. King, who is a friend of Walter Simonson's and fellow alumnus of RISD, Louise Simonson was married to that Jeff Jones. Jplatt39 (talk) 22:29, 23 April 2008 (UTC)"

[elcaracol]

E, in effetti, lo dice anche Jeff nella autobiografia:
"was married in 1966 to my college sweetheart, Mary Louise Alexander.  We lived in Georgia for a while with three cats, Aeschelus, Medea and
Petronius the Arbiter.  I remained in school, mostly because of the draft - "Weezie" worked for the phone company.  One day we arrived home -
we left one window partly open so the cats could get in and out.  I opened the door to find about fifteen cats sitting in the living room, apparently
having a group discussion.  All fled.  We moved to New York City in February of 1967 and our wonderful daughter, Julianna, was born in July of
that year."

[elcaracol]

Non è una tavola di Idyl, ma è comunque un capolavoro di JJ e volevo mostrarvelo:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Lf1ycYAH0As/SviLnQXKilI/AAAAAAAANBI/gTuQoAodr9w/s1600-h/v33p.jpg