Lily Renee, Escape Artist
From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer
By Trina Robbins; Anne Timmons (Illustrator); Mo Oh (Illustrator)
(Graphic Universe, Paperback, 9780761381143, 96pp.)
Publication Date: November 2011
Categories: Biography & Autobiography - Women, Biography & Autobiography - Art
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Description
In 1938, Lily Rene Wilhelm, a 14-year-old Jewish girl, is living in Vienna when the Nazis march into Austria. After a ship voyage fraught with danger from Nazi torpedoes, teenage Lily reunites with her parents in New York and helps her family earn a living by painting designs on wooden boxes. One day she sees an ad in the paper: a comics publisher is looking for artists. Lily has never drawn comics before, but teaches herself how they work. She is hired to draw the character Seorita Rio, a beautiful spy fighting the Nazis.
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