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    Jeffrey Catherine Jones
    I always thought they were like Vaughn Bode, if he really studied anatomy, turned out they were good friends.
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    • you know about The Studio, right? It was a very small world in the 70s and everyone went through that apartment.MrAbominable
    • JJ's painted work was always Frazetta-lite. The drawings were for me where he excelled. 'I'm Age' and the other one.MrAbominable
    • I eventually got the Studio book, love it.PhanLo
    • ^Kent Williams, John J Muth, and George Pratt are all the immediate generation idolizing Jones. You prolly know them all but... chatting.MrAbominable
    • immediate "following"MrAbominable
    • @MrAbominable really love George Pratt's work, I listened to a really good podcast with him a while back. Will look it outPhanLo
    • It's on here https://archive.org/… couldn't find a direct link. those guys loved the Studio era...PhanLo
    • ...learned so much from those interviews about artists I might never have known. Sergio Toppi, Alberto Breccia, José Muñoz so many good artistsPhanLo
    • thanks for the link. will check. Williams/Muth/Pratt were all friends of Jones. Pratt is an odder duck and it took him longer to find success. I'm glad heMrAbominable
    • did, though. They all shared the same Rep, who some of my classmates at ACCD went to work with. Eventually Dave McKean and Greg Spalenka sort of joined theMrAbominable
    • same circle, but as a sort of 3rd generation. Not much of a lineage to JJ or PreRaphaelites at that point.MrAbominable

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