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NS: Lily Renee, Pioneer Comic Artist of the Golden Age, Passes Away

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https://www.cbr.com/lily-renee-pioneer-golden-age-comic-book-artist-obituary/

Lily Renée, a comic book pioneer who was one of the first female comic book artists during the Golden Age, an achievement that went mostly unnoticed until she got to revel in her newfound fame in her 80s and 90s, has passed away at the age of 101.

Renée, born Lily Renée Willheim, came of age in a well-to-do family in Vienna, Austria, in the 1930s. However, since her family was Jewish, they became targets when Nazi Germany annexed Austria in March 1938. As a teenager, she was part of the Kindertransport, a widely organized effort to transport over 10,000 Jewish children out of Europe into the United Kingdom before the start of World War II. She worked odd jobs in England until her parents were able to emigrate to the United States. She joined them there at some point around 1939.

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As noted, Fiction House had already begun to hire other female artists, like Fran Hooper and Nina Albright, but Renée (who used her first name and her middle name as her professional name, signing her work "L.Renée," presumably to hide the fact that she was a woman) qucikly became a standout at Fiction House. Her first regular feature was working on the Jane Martin feature, about a female pilot. Her biggest character was Señorita Rio, created by Nick Cardy. Check out her excellent cover work on Señorita Rio's feature in Fight Comics