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 Leif Jones's Profile |
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you can't change the future, but you can always change the past |
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| Age: | 37 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | PORTLAND, Oregon |
| Country: |  United States |
| Zodiac: |  Taurus (Apr 20 - May 20) |
| Last Login: | Jun 15, 2008 (556 days back) |
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About Me |
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There was never any choice in the matter. As a small child, without a television to hypnotize me, I began drawing visual stories to entertain myself in the quiet woods of Northern California. Raised by a single parent, enduring a mostly vagabond lifestyle, with little formal schooling to structure my days, I found comfort in my own imaginary worlds, and the creatures that inhabited them. In 1993, at the age of 22, my vampire flavored comic book series BLOOD & KISSES was published. Since then I have worked exclusively as a freelance illustrator, conceptual artist, and character designer, while occasionally dabbling in comic book short stories. My clients have included White Wolf Publishing, Rootamental Skateboards, Seattle Weekly, Human Head Studios, Dark Horse Comics, Verotik, Harper Prism, Disney Interactive, Visual Purple, Boston's Weekly Dig, Curious Pictures, and The Learning Company. In 2005 I finally left the sunny shores of California for the puddly streets of Portland Oregon, where I live with my wife Sarah Vendetti, working on various creative projects. Visit my website: WWW.LEIFJONES.COM Preview my sketchbook Buy my sketchbook |
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My Interests |
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drawing, storytelling, trees, decay, memories, silence, lies, the smell of old paper, centipedes, jazz, thunderstorms, fire escapes, round pegs in a square world, monsters, old hotels, absurdity, fishing boats, tunnels, libraries, masks, alleys, pirates, the devil and the deep blue sea |
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I'd like to meet:Surprise me. |
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Music:Thievery Corporation Tears for Fears The Cure Soul Coughing Billie Holiday Beck Charlie Hunter Edith Piaf Goldfrapp A Perfect Circle Tom Waits Gotan Project Louis Prima Portishead Van Morrison Morcheeba Harry Connick Jr Danny Elfman PJ Harvey Led Zeppelin Peter Gabriel Sinéad O'Connor Stevie Nicks Modest Mouse Jane's Addiction The Doors Philip Glass Squirrel Nut Zippers Tori Amos Stevie Harris Stan Getz The Dust Brothers |
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Movies:The Hudsucker Proxy The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover sex, lies, and videotape The Big Lebowski A Streetcar Named Desire Buffalo '66 Dangerous Liaisons Crumb Parenthood Ed Wood Sunset Boulevard Gangs of New York Angel Heart Empire of the Sun Dead Man The Fisher King Magnolia The Abyss Pulp Fiction M The Darjeeling Limited Bullets Over Broadway Short Cuts The Indian Runner Bram Stoker's Dracula Casablanca Blue Velvet At Play In the Fields of the Lord Se7en The Doors All About My Mother Happy Feet 2001: A Space Odyssey Grosse Pointe Blank The Sound of Music Team America Tape Raise the Red Lantern U-Turn The Last Supper Fight Club Wonder Boys Adaptation Hard Candy The Road Warrior American Beauty Almost Famous The Wizard of Oz |
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Television:Lost Entourage Six Feet Under Weeds Big Love 30 Rock The Office The Sopranos Unscripted Film School The Twilight Zone The Simpsons Star Trek |
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Books:Ask the Dust by John Fante Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Perfume by Patrick Suskind Earth Abides by George Stewart Cruddy by Lynda Barry Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Cages by Dave McKean Animal Farm by George Orwell Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland We3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Everyone Smokes In Hell by John Ridley A Simple Plan by Scott Smith Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware Fallen Angel by William Hjortsberg Ripple by Dave Cooper Beg The Question by Bob Fingerman Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner The Fatal Bullet by Rick Geary Virtual Light by William Gibson Guys by Dave Sim and Gerhard The Mummy by Anne Rice Caricature by Daniel Clowes The Cider House Rules by John Irving Drop City by TC Boyle American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon To Die For by Joyce Maynard My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn The Frank Book by Jim Woodring The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon The Three Investigators books by Robert Arthur and others and my Children's Classics edition of The Arabian Nights, illustrated by Rene Bull |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Married |
| SexualOrientation: | Straight |
| Hometown: | The Golden State |
| Religion: | Other |
| Smoker: | No |
| Drinker: | Yes |
| Occupation: | illustrator |
My Pictures |
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My Blog |
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Tori Amos COMIC BOOK TATTOO |
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I wrote, drew, lettered and colored a story for the Tori Amos tribute book COMIC BOOK TATTOO, and it's one of my favorite things I've ever done.
What is COMIC BOOK... Posted by Leif Jones on Fri, 09 May 2008 04:35:00 PST |
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The SE7EN hardcover collection is in stores |
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| Purchase it here or at a book store near you.
... Posted by Leif Jones on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:16:00 PST |
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Wonder Woman benefit art |
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October 28th is Wonder Woman Day, which also happens to be the day that Portland's Excalibur Comics is hosting a benefit auction of Wonder Woman art to support two domestic violence shelters an... Posted by Leif Jones on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 05:07:00 PST |
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Back-To-School Zombies |
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I'm not a hundred percent sure I understand the idea behind this one, but I like the results. Last week Tak Toyoshima, the Art Director for Boston's Weekly Dig, asked me to do, well...what you ... Posted by Leif Jones on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:01:00 PST |
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Chicago comic-con and some reviews of what Im reading |
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| Here's a photo of me with David Mack and David Seidman signing copies of SE7EN: ENVY at the Zenescope Booth during the Wizard World Chicago convention last weekend. Thanks to everyone who visited us ... Posted by Leif Jones on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:16:00 PST |
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SE7EN: ENVY to debut at Chicago comic convention |
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| It's official.SE7EN: ENVY will be released in time for the Wizard World Chicago comic convention next weekend, where I will be signing copies at the Zenescope booth (124) along with writer David Mack ... Posted by Leif Jones on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:36:00 PST |
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2007 illustration round-up (the first half) |
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| While doing the art for SE7EN: ENVY took up a good chunk of early 2007, I did squeeze in a few illustration assignments. Below you'll find some samples:Three of the character templates I did for Mont... Posted by Leif Jones on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:05:00 PST |
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SE7EN: Anatomy of a Panel (episode two) |
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| Page twenty of SEVEN: ENVY was essentially six panels of a static image, with a couple changing foreground elements. So I put a lot of time into making that one image look nice.
For the apartment inte... Posted by Leif Jones on Wed, 23 May 2007 01:29:00 PST |
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SE7EN: Anatomy of a Panel (episode one) |
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| Cartoonist Jesse Hamm recently wrote a brilliant LiveJournal post regarding why comic book writers shouldn't, if at all possible, tell the artists what to draw. The main rebuttal to which s... Posted by Leif Jones on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:03:00 PST |
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My Emerald City Comicon experience |
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| (mixed with some of my previously unreleased artwork from SEVEN: ENVY, in case you don't feel like reading)
I woke up at 5am last Saturday morning and drove to Seattle's Emerald... Posted by Leif Jones on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:17:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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Sarah, Alex Sheikman, jason felix, David Mack, Joshua Dysart, Bob Fingerman, Craig, Brian Churilla, Marvel girl, Mike C, David Seidman, Wyeth, Chris Wisnia, Chris Warner, kRoMaG, MySpace Dark Horse Presents, Tom Waits, Brian K. Vaughan, Adrian Tomine, ken, Frank Cirocco, Bjork Zine (aka Mark), Fantagraphics Books, Tori Amos, Juxtapoz Magazine, Rantz, Martin Scorsese, JOE MATT, Spusta, Gumby, Oeming, Portland Mercury, Wild Child Tales, David Lee Ingersoll, Chuck Brouillette, Ernie, Pleasantly Manic, Coyote ©, Shawn, Miss Pauline, Martin, Darrick Patrick, Blackcherry Media, ... Down to a Sunless Sea., Bobby Nash: Writer @ Large, andre, jay, The Artist Currently Known as Joel, VonGrimm-Just like that., The Union, ←W↕M→, Jason Copland, DOMI, Jason Freeny, Liquid, SHWEBBER INC. ×ASOB×, Wonder Woman: Yesterday, Today & Beyond, Mike and Carol, Michael Katz, submedia, Matthias Wannhoff, PRINCE OF THE FAITHFUL, SPY GODDESS MANGA, That Toler Boy, N.F.C ART, Horror Critic Fatally Yours, Gabriel's Wings ~, Mayorga Studios, Dr. Twistid, Amano Jyaku
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