Kelley Jones was born on July 23,1962 and is an American comics artist best known for his work on Batman with writer Doug Moench and on The Sandman with writer Neil Gaiman.
15 Facts About Kelley Jones
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Kelley Jones was born in Sacramento, California and grew up in Citrus Heights.
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Kelley Jones had in there Marvel Collectors' Item Classics and Marvel's Greatest Comics, something along those lines, and they were reprints of the '61, '62, '63 period.
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At DC Comics, Kelley Jones redesigned Deadman, making the character look thin and skeletal.
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Kelley Jones drew the covers for many of the chapters of the "Batman: Knightfall" crossover storyline.
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Kelley Jones illustrated The Crusades for Vertigo and the four-issue mini-series Conan: The Book of Thoth for Dark Horse Comics with writers Kurt Busiek and Len Wein in 2006.
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Since 1997, Kelley Jones has produced a number of works as a writer-artist for Dark Horse, including several miniseries and one-shots starring his creation The Hammer : the one-shot ZombieWorld: Eat Your Heart Out and the four-issue miniseries The 13th Son.
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In 2008, Kelley Jones returned to Batman, this time in a twelve-issue series titled Batman: Gotham After Midnight, written by Steve Niles.
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In 2015, Len Wein asked Kelley Jones to collaborate on Convergence: Swamp Thing and its success led to the two of them working together on a Swamp Thing miniseries, The Dead Don't Die.
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Kelley Jones later illustrated Lobo vs Roadrunner, followed by 2018's Justice League America Annual.
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Kelley Jones returned to working on Batman in 2018, illustrating Batman: Kings of Fear, a six-part miniseries.
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In 2019, Kelley Jones unveils having worked on illustrations for the new Creepshow series as well as his 12-page comic book adaptation of "The Raft", that Marvel asked him to work on for accompanying the release of the Creepshow 2 movie, in 1987.
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Kelley Jones was nominated for both a Harvey Award and an Eisner Award for his work on Deadman: Love after Death and again in 1990 for Batman: Red Rain.
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Kelley Jones won an Eisner in 1991 for best run for The Sandman arc "Season of Mist".
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Kelley Jones won the best artist at both the Rondo Awards and from MTV in 2008 for his work on Batman: Gotham after Midnight.