Jones & Mark at Home (from Moore)

Mark the Beast was a patient guy to put up with Jone's opera binges. Meanwhile, he was always on the prowl. Or at least thinking about it.

- drawing from Salamander Comix

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Jones & Mark: Gerontophilia & Cuckoldry

Cast (L to R): The guy with the horns (unidentified, maybe named Lannis); Slick Eddie; Bucky from Duke Power; Mark the Beast (The Perpetrator); Jones; and Wanda the Angela Lansbury of Barmaids.

Location: Sanfords Tavern, Hwy 49 N. Charlotte

Beer Brands: Treehouse, Nouvelle Orleans, Nuclear Power, Merry Wives of Windsor, Masters & Johnson, and Peterbilt.

Jones Depicting ?? as Tristan (from Moore)

The mortally wounded Tristan... whoizzit?

I've a person in mind, but only Jones the artist knew for sure.



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Cardinal's Draw a McBeard Contest

I wasn't at Cardinal when this event occured. Had I been there, I would've cast my vote for W.R. (Wade?)'s version, which is labeled as Santa Claus, but really looks like Big Daddy as The Divinity. (from Moore)

Jones Overcooked by "Siegfried" (from Moore)

Found this among the pages of "Salamander Comix" and figured it kind of fits with the Jones dialog-with-self drawings.

The old guy had just finished one of his opera marathons in Mark the Beast's walk-in closet. (more of "Salamander Comix" down the line).



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Jones Dialogs as Video (from Weathers)

In an experiment I put on my best Southern voice and narrate the Jonesian dialog from the previous post. (As I recall, Jones' gravelly voice was rather elegant - unlike mine.)

Jones Dialogs (from Weathers)

This is Jones having a discussion (with various aspects of himself?) about what reality is or isn't, whether to go on living, and how he is both Faust and Mephistopheles. In Jones' view "Ole Meph" was a creature who denied everything and in the end could not give Faust the one thing he was willing to sell his soul for. The dialogs conclude with a reference to the study of dark souls.

Jones' Hard Times Meatloaf (from Moore)

Jones appears to be in a buoyant mood, listening to Puccini's Tosca. The scene is probably from Mark the Beast's apartment rather than his "office home" on Morehead Street.

Special detail: use of Maurice Bessinger's Piggy Park BBQ sauce.

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Jones Keeping Me Up to Date (from Weathers)

After I left the company in 1974, Jones kept me up to date with the coming and going (mostly going) of the people who remained at Cardinal.

Jones' Version of The Day The Earth Stood Still (from Weathers)

Jones only liked classic science fiction. He didn't like Star Wars at all. And although I try to find deep meaning in his stuff, a lot of what he did was simply for fun. He liked to indulge his knowledge and his intellect. Although he enjoyed having readers, I am not sure if he cared too much whether we "got" what he was doing. But maybe I'll change my mind as I post more of his material.