Chronicles of the Revolutionary Nerd 12 with Arvell Jones

An interview and conversation with Arvell Jones Co- Creator of Misty Knight. Arvell Malcolm Jones has been drawing comics for a long time, his earliest work appears in Marvel Comics' Marvel Premiere #20-22 (Jan.- May 1975), drawing the martial arts superhero Iron Fist. He also co-created the character Misty Knight, along with Tony Isabella. He's drawn Marvel titles such as, Deathlok, Thor, Iron Man, Luke Cage, Avengers, Daredevil, Captain America and more. Jones worked on  DC comics on short 10 page stories for DC specials and Giant Books of  Legion of Super Heroes before getting his own series Super- Team Family, 1976-77 which the majority of issues were reprinted as the countdown special in the mid 2000's, he also worked on the All-Star Squadron in the mid 80's, penciling the majority of issues released between 1985-1987 while working at a local Detroit TV Station designing news graphics, animation and promotions. He returned to comics to drawfill-in issues of Blood Syndicate, Hardware, before co- creating and drawing the first 6 issues of Kobalt for Milestone Media Inc.. In 1995he co-founded a publicly traded company, and ran an internet developement company. He's worked as a producer for TV shows such as Totally Twisted Flix, The Movie Show Plus, DocU-This and then held the title of Vice President of Development fo Colours TV, He is also Adjunct Falculty in the Illustration Department at the College for Creative Studies. Between all of that he still finds time to teach and mentor interested artistsworking in the comic field where he co-created the 15 year old running Comic Art Workshop. He returned to comics to work on two Indy titles to be released soon. For more on the Arvell's artwork visit http://www.comicbook-art.com/arvelljones