Posts Tagged “Jon Jay Muth”
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04
2009
Posted by: RC in Comics, tags: Jon Jay Muth
Here’s another early, heavily Jones-influenced* story by Jon Jay Muth:
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "Synchrony," Heavy Metal vol. 8, no. 5 (August 1984), page 34.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "Synchrony," Heavy Metal vol. 8, no. 5 (August 1984), page 35.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "Synchrony," Heavy Metal vol. 8, no. 5 (August 1984), page 36.
What is it about death at the hands of “La belle Dame sans merci” that the young Romantic finds so alluring? Depends on what you mean by “death,” I suppose. But the Romantic goes further, conflating “la petit morte d’Holophernes” with “Le Morte d’Holophernes,” even though common sense says the two are drastically different things. Is common sense the enemy of art? At the very least, it would appear to be the enemy of Romanticism, new as well as old.
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* If I had to guess, I would say that comic artist and illustrator, Barry Windsor-Smith, who has drawn and painted numerous pictures over the years of historical and mythological women holding, fondling, and kissing the severed heads of young men, and who was himself a prominent member of the “New Romantic Brotherhood” of the late 1970s and early 1980s, was also a proximate influence on “Synchrony.”
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12
04
2009
Posted by: RC in Comics, Look Here, tags: Jon Jay Muth
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "The Return," Epic Illustrated #24 (June 1984), page 25.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "The Return," Epic Illustrated #24 (June 1984), page 26.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "The Return," Epic Illustrated #24 (June 1984), page 27.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "The Return," Epic Illustrated #24 (June 1984), page 28.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "The Return," Epic Illustrated #24 (June 1984), page 29.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "The Return," Epic Illustrated #24 (June 1984), page 30.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "The Return," Epic Illustrated #24 (June 1984), page 31.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "The Return," Epic Illustrated #24 (June 1984), page 32.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "The Return," Epic Illustrated #24 (June 1984), page 33.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "The Return," Epic Illustrated #24 (June 1984), page 34.
Has Muth’s early work in comics ever been reprinted? Not that I know of, and it’s a damn shame, too!
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, Portrait of Jeffrey Jones, pencil, 10.5 x 14.75 in.
Like it? Enough to buy it? If your answers are yes, and yes, you’re in luck, because the current owner has it listed for sale at US$600. Contact information is available on this Comic Art Fans page.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "Small Gifts," Epic Illustrated #12 (June 1982), page 27.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "Small Gifts," Epic Illustrated #12 (June 1982), page 28.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "Small Gifts," Epic Illustrated #12 (June 1982), page 29.
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ABOVE:Jon Jay Muth, "Small Gifts," Epic Illustrated #12 (June 1982), page 30.
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ABOVE:Jon Jay Muth, "Small Gifts," Epic Illustrated #12 (June 1982), page 31.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "Pursuit," Epic Illustrated #12 (June 1982), page 32.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "Pursuit," Epic Illustrated #12 (June 1982), page 33.
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ABOVE: Jon Jay Muth, "Pursuit," Epic Illustrated #12 (June 1982), page 34.
Rightly or wrongly, I have long thought of Muth’s style at the beginning his career, when he drew the above stories, as “School of Jeffrey Jones.” There are, however, definite similarities between Muth’s painting style and palette and Alan Lee’s watercolour illustrations of the late 1970s* and beyond; so much so that it wouldn’t surprise me if Lee’s work was also, as much as Jeffrey Jones’s, an influence on the “look” of “Small Gifts” and, especially, “Pursuit.”
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* The first edition of Faeries by Lee, Froud, et al., appeared in 1978.
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