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.

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). His next book, tentatively entitled "American Madness," will be coming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007 or 2008.

From 1989 to 2001 he also wrote many comic books for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Viz Comics, the Ultraverse and other publishers, including Green Lantern, Justice League, El Diablo, Wonder Man, The Shadow, Pokémon, and Batman.

Coauthor with Will Jacobs of The Beaver Papers (1983), The Comic Book Heroes (1985, 1996) and the comic book The Trouble with Girls (1987-1995). From 1983 to 1988 Jacobs and Jones were contributors to National Lampoon magazine.

Gerard Jones has participated in an upcoming documentary film called Adventures Into Digital Comics. The film discusses, among other things, the crash of the comic book industry in the 90s and the emergence of webcomics. He also appears in Look, Up in the Sky!, a documentary about the origins of Superman produced in conjunction with the release of the film Superman Returns.

External links

• Gerard Jones' home page
• Adventures Into Digital Comics Official Web Site
• Interview with Top Two Three Films

1957 births | Living people | American comics writers | California writers