Eight Nights of Jewish Women in Comics #2: Lily Renée (Wilheim Peters Phillips) I’v
Eight Nights of Jewish Women in Comics #2: Lily Renée (Wilheim Peters Phillips) I’ve already blogged extensively about Lily Renée (and even met her once!) but there’s always something new to talk about with her. To those unfamiliar with the incredible story of her life as a Jewish teenager in Nazi-occupied Vienna, who escaped to England on the Kindertransport then made it to New York City, the epicenter of the comic book boom known as the Golden Age, I point you to comics “herstorian" Trina Robbins and artist Anne Timmons's graphic biography, Lily Renée, Escape Artist. Trina Robbins has been working on and off on a collection of the comics of Golden Age artist Lily Renée, and I’ve been waiting to see where it would end up. Well, Trina has decided to give it away for free on her website! Scanned from Robbins’s personal collection, the eBook contains the complete runs of the features that Renée drew during her tenure at the publisher, Fiction House, where the artist observed, "the women were never victims, they were always strong.” This collection shows Renée’s rapid evolution from a complete comic book novice (she had never seen one until her mother found the job listing in the newspaper) to an early innovator of layout and design. In addition to the over 200 pages of tales of the post-apocalyptic “The Lost World”, the supernatural “The Werewolf Hunter”, aviatrix Jane Martin, and secret agent and nightclub singer Señorita Rio, Robbins included an interview with Renée previously published in The Comics Journal in 2006. -- source link
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