![]() ![]() It wasn't only her gender that set her apart. ![]() Her illustrations seemed to come from a different world, and indeed they did. "Some people are just illustrators and some people are storytellers," says golden-age historian Jim Amash. Fans knew her only by her unusual work: panels that evoked German expressionist films, costumes that could have appeared in the pages of Vogue, and heroines who moved with the muscular grace of dancers. Renée" had been declared missing by the comics world. Since 1949 the woman who signed her pages "L. Phillips went on to become perhaps the best-known female illustrator of her day, revered by the medium's obsessive fans and yet undiscovered for nearly 50 years. "At the same time I wanted to do good work I wanted very much to succeed for my own sake."Īnd so she did. She hated it so much, she often cried herself to sleep. It was her job to erase too-thick arms, stray bullets-and the lewd notes they wrote her in the margins. ![]() The illustrators around her drew in graphite, then inked them over. It was 1943 in the cramped, smoky offices of Fiction House-the epicenter of comics publishing at the height of the golden age of comics-and Phillips was one of two women on staff and a handful working in the business who filled desks emptied by the war. ![]() Lily Renée Phillips's first job in comics was erasing the errors made by the male illustrators who sat around her. ![]()
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