J. G. Jones and Liana Kangas Donate Original Pieces to Heritage Auction

In September, we teamed up with the charity Voices of Children to publish Lower Your Sights, a benefit anthology to raise awareness and proceeds for children impacted by war. We are pleased to announce the auction of two original pieces from the graphic novel, graciously donated by celebrated artists JG Jones and Liana Kangas, available for auction on Heritage Auctions.com – with all proceeds going to The Voices of Children Foundation.

The auction will open this Thursday, and closes on November 2nd.

In collaboration with Charlotte Balogh and Gab Contreras, comics artist Liana Kangas’ (TRVE KVLT, Star Wars Adventures) original artwork for the poem Heliotropic will be available for auction here.

Acclaimed comics artist J.G. Jones (Wanted, Final Crisis) has donated the original artwork for Cover B of Lower Your Sights, which will be available for auction here.

“When Jeff reached out and offered to donate his cover to be auctioned for this cause, I read his email in disbelief,” said Mark Irwin, Mad Cave’s Vice President of Business Development. “Not only is Jeff one of the premiere cover artists of our time, but his heart is even bigger than his talent. We’re lucky to have this beautiful piece of art gracing this project, and the world is lucky to have J.G. Jones in it.”

“Anything is worth doing that can help the civilian victims of this utterly unnecessary, devastating war foisted on Ukraine by its belligerent neighbor. I hope the sale of the original cover art can add a few more dollars to help families displaced by the horrors of war,” said J Jones

ABOUT THE CREATORS:

Liana Kangas is a freelance comic artist, illustrator, and writer, with previous professional history in graphic design and outreach. Current works include drawing and co-creating the comic miniseries TRVE KVLT, written by Scott Bryan Wilson published by IDW, and drawing a short written by James Tynion IV for Razorblades, published by Image Comics. Liana has also worked on the IDW/LucasFilm title Star Wars Adventures written by Sam Maggs, co-writing the short one-shot Seeds of Eden, co-written by Joe Corallo, drawn by Paul Azaceta, and published by TKO Studios, co-created and drew a mini series titled She Said Destroy, written by Corallo and published by Vault Comics, and the BlackAF series title Devil’s Dye written by Vita Ayala published by Black Mask Studios. Liana’s work has been featured in anthologies including 2000AD, Z2’s The Final Symphony, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Comic Mix’s Mine!, Image Comics Where We Live, and A Wave Blue World’s All We Ever Wanted, Dead Beats, Embodied and Dead Beats: London Calling. Liana has drawn covers for series published with Image Comics, IDW, Comixology, Oni Press, Ahoy, Vault, Mad Cave and Scout. You can find fun features of Liana’s work on Nerdist, SYFY Artists Alley, Panel x Panel as well as featured articles on Deadline Hollywood, Newsarama, Paste Magazine, AIPT, Doom Rocket, Multiversity, Comics Beat, Vice, and Comics Alliance.

Twitter: @lianakangas | Instagram: @lianakangas | www.lianakangas.com

J. G. Jones made his debut in the comics industry in 1994 by drawing Dark Dominion for Defiant Comics. He is best known for his work as cover artist on various comic book series, including a stint on Brian K. Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man and for DC Comics, the six-issue limited series Villains United written by Gail Simone, as well as all 52 covers for the maxi-series 52.

In 1999, Jones and writer Devin K. Grayson introduced the Yelena Belova character in the Black Widow limited series. The following year, Jones worked with writer Grant Morrison on the Marvel Boy limited series. Jones’ other interior art credits include Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia written by Greg Rucka and Mark Millar’s Wanted published by Top Cow Productions.

Jones was intended to be the sole artist on the Grant Morrison DC limited series Final Crisis.
Since then Jones has been mostly providing covers for DC Comics on titles such as Batman and Robin, Doc Savage, Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. and Mister Terrific. Writer Brian Azzarello and Jones collaborated on the Before Watchmen: Comedian limited series in 2012–2013. Jones and writer Mark Waid produced Strange Fruit for Boom! Studios in July 2015, and since then he continues to work on amazing projects.

Voices Of Children: No child should be left with war trauma. This is our mission. With your help, we give psychological and psychosocial support to children who suffered as a result of war operations. It helps them to win the consequences of the war and develop themselves. We also help families to cope with everyday difficulties, treatment and rehabilitation of children, giving individual support. To give children a voice we create video content, and we are also engaged in promoting children rights in order to change the children’s rights protection system in the country. Our objective is that every child who has suffered from the war in Ukraine must get psychological help in time. Our values: respect for a child’s dignity and rights; understanding of the needs of every child to be heard; faith in getting the best results only with the help of partnership and mutual aid. We are working in various villages and towns along the frontline in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

Mad Cave Studios: Mad Cave is an independent publisher founded in 2014 focused on creating worldwide entertainment in the horror, sci-fi, action-adventure, crime, and fantasy spaces. Mad Cave works with international creators to develop masterfully illustrated pages with a focus on character-driven storytelling. Mad Cave guarantees purpose-driven stories with a fresh take on an array of genres with characters who face insurmountable odds.

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