Eric Jones, the acclaimed comic book artist perhaps best known for co-creating the Little Gloomy comic book series for Slave Labor Graphics (which was later adapted into the Scary Larry animated series) with his longtime friend and collaborator, Landry Q. Walker, has passed away at the age of 51.Walker broke the tragic news online, saying of his friend, "I will have much more to say on this soon. But right now I don’t have the words. Eric Jones - my collaborator in art for over 30 years, my friend, my family - has died unexpectedly. Artist of Batman, Supergirl, Star Wars, Danger Club, Pepper Page, And so many many more things…".

Jones broke into the independent comic book scene in the mid-1990s with work on Aeon Comics' Filthy Habits, in 1994 (before that, he famously did the first poster for the iconic rock band, Green Day). That was the first professional comic book that Jones and Walker worked together on. They soon followed that up with the adorably all-ages goth comic, Little Gloomy, for Slave Labor Graphics (now SLG Publishing), in 1999. Little Gloomy was loosely adapted into the 2012 French animated series, Scary Larry (re-named again KidsClick for when it was adapted for American television).

After working on Little Gloomy (which ran in the pages of Disney Adventures in the later years of that series) and a Tron series for SLG, Walker and Jones then collaborated on the brilliant Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the Eighth Grade in 2008-09.

The series perfectly predicted the recent boom in all-ages comic books.

Walker and Jones have worked on a number of other licensed all-age products over the years, including stints on the Batman: The Brave and the Bold comic book series, as well as IDW's Star Wars Adventures.

The pair also did the creator-owned series, Danger Club, for Image Comics, and, most recently, The Infinite Adventures of Supernova Volume 1: Pepper Page Saves the Universe!, for First Second (volume two of that series was being worked on when Jones tragically passed away).

Jones was not only an excellent comic book artist, but he was also an outstanding ambassador for comics, as he and Walker routinely served as advocates for the awesomeness of the comic book art form.