Jeffrey Catherine Jones (10 January 1944 - 19 May 2011; Atlanta, USA)
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Jeff studied geology in college before moving to New York in 1967 where she became an illustrator. In 1971 she created the strip called Idyll for National Lampoon magazine. Her early comic included work for Charlton and DC, but her vocation is painting. She has illustrated many paperback covers for Ace and Bantam including many Robert E Howard works.


In 1976, along with Barry Windsor Smith, Mike Kaluta and Berni Wrightson, she founded The Studio, where she produced a number of high quality extremely limited edition prints. Her black and white strip I'm Age appeared in Heavy Metal magazine.

Jones created the cover art for more than 150 books through 1976 as well as venturing into fine art during and after this time. Fantasy artist Frank Frazetta called Jones "the greatest living painter".

Although Jones first achieved fame as simply Jeff Jones and later as Jeffrey Jones, she transitioned to female and added Catherine as a middle name in 1998.