(like you really care)
(like you really care)
| Mike Jones was
born in Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico March 24, 1975. The
son of a military journalist, he spent much of his youth
somewhere other than the States. Maybe it was the
constant moving (or perhaps too much sugar on his
Cheerios at an early age) that prompted him to take to
pen&paper like soon-to-be-roadkill takes to the open
road. While stationed in Iceland (one of several times) in September 1991, a high school classmate's mom innocently offered the space for a comic strip in the local base newspaper, The White Falcon. "Ice-Tales" was born. A PCS ('moving' for all you non-military types) and an enlistment later, Mike found himself once again in Keflavik amid the moss and winds. With a little fit-pitching, Ice-Tales was brought back into the pages of the White Falcon where appeared from April 1997 to November 2000. After departing Keflavik, Jones found himself at another base newspaper devoid of a weekly cartoon. By using the ol' "You'll have that much less space to fill with writing ..." gimmick, Jones easily persuaded the staff at the Jax Air News, (NAS Jacksonville, Florida) to allow a new comic, the soon-to-be-renamed "Jax-Tales" into the publication. While serving in Iceland, Jones developed a collection of Navy-specific comics featuring a hapless Sailor with horrible dental work. The U.S. Navy magazine All Hands responded enthusiastically to the idea and began publishing "Ricky's Tour" in February 1999. (And the rest ... as they say ... is the kind of history a lot of people wish they had a time machine to allow them to go back and alter. |
