Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 11: Jeffrey Catherine Jones + the Queer Underground
Cathy G. Johnson
Artwork by e jackson.
Drawing a Dialogue is a podcast discussing comics in historical + educational contexts by Cathy G. Johnson + e remus jackson.
Episode 11: In this episode, Cathy + e look at the history of queer comics in the American underground and build a biography for the cartoonist + illustrator Jeffrey Catherine Jones. Queer erasure is examined while a history is looked at, researched, and built.
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Episode Citation (chronologically as mentioned in podcast):
Ajuan Mance, 2016, The Routledge Companion to Comics, “LGBTQ Representation in Comics” - Routledge
Fire Island Pines Historical Preservation Society - Link
Hillary Chute, 2017, “The Rise of Queer Comics” - The Paris Review
“Mary Wings” - Lambiek Comiclopedia
Jake Hall, 2016, “Revisiting the seminal queercore movement” - Dazed Digital
Eric Torres, 2015, “Queering the Pitch: On J.D.s and the Roots of Queercore” - Pitchfork
Amy L. Stone + Jaime Cantrell, 2015, Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories - SUNY
Liam Oliver Lair, 2015, Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories - SUNY
Steven Ringgenberg, 2011 - The Comics Journal
Jeffrey Catherine Jones' website, accessed through the Wayback Machine - Link
Jones, J., & Pratt, G. (2000). Jeffrey Jones Sketchbook. Lebanon, NJ: Vanguard Pub.
Jones, J. (2015). Idyl - I'm Age. Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant.
Further reading:
Cheryl Morgan, 2011, "Revisiting Jeffrey Catherine Jones" - Link
What are we reading?
Maragret Atwood, Small Poems For The Winter Solstice
Frank O'Hara
Theme song by Downtown Boys
Special thanks to O Horvath for help providing research materials for this episode