But as to the content of what we said … nothing. It must have all been inconsequential small talk.<\/p>\n Which bothered me at first, until I started thinking …<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AutographsJones1.jpg\" "\\"AutographsJones1\\"")
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I wish I could share many wonderful memories with you about my encounters with Jeffrey Catherine Jones, but I can’t, even though I’m pretty sure our paths must have crossed dozens of times from the early ’70s through the early ’80s. I have a couple of scraps of proof of that, too, in the form of autographs I collected when I was one of those annoying kids with a sketchpad you see at comic conventions.<\/p>\n
I started attending cons in 1970, started on staff at Marvel in 1974, and burned out on it all by around 1982, but between the beginning and the end, I can picture chatting with Jones many times, even remembering the rooms in which we spoke. I can see her now scribbling her name on the sheets of paper below, and in front of one of her massive paintings at a Phil Seuling con as I said how much I loved it, and at a 1973 Cosmic Con in Toronto, where I bought one of her drawings which had been a spot illo in an issue of Amazing<\/em>. (Art I’ve been fruitlessly trying to locate for years, BTW, and another quick search today continues to leave me puzzled.)<\/p>\n But as to the content of what we said … nothing. It must have all been inconsequential small talk.<\/p>\n Which bothered me at first, until I started thinking …<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n