Better Things: The Life and Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones

APPROPIATE

2012 / 83min.

Rating6.3

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

Jeffrey Catherine Jones is one of the most revered comic book and fantasy artists of all time and a complex character with an unusual life, an ideal subject for an insightful and captivating documentary. Tracing the early history as part of The Studio with fellow artists Bernie Wrightson, Barry Windsor-Smith and Michael William Kaluta through to gender transition in later life, Maria Paz Cabardo assembles a collage of artwork and archive alongside interviews with collaborators and some touchingly intimate conversations with the artist herself shortly before she died.

Directors

Actors

Julian Jones Arms

Mike Carbonara

Rick Berry

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