Lily Renée

Lily Renée
Renée in 2018
BornLily Renée Wilheim
(1921-05-12)May 12, 1921
Vienna, Austria
DiedAugust 24, 2022(2022-08-24) (aged 101)
New York City, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Pseudonym(s)L. Renée
Lily Renée
Reney
Notable works
  • Jane Martin
  • The Werewolf Hunter
  • The Lost World
  • Señorita Rio
  • Abbott & Costello Comics
AwardsComic-Con International Hall of Fame
External image
Lily Renée, Books of Wonder, New York City, 2011. Archived from the original on December 6, 2017.

Lily Renée Phillips (née Willheim; May 12, 1921 – August 24, 2022), often credited as L. Renée, Lily Renée, or Reney, was an Austrian-born American artist best known as one of the earliest women in the comic-book industry, beginning in the 1940s period known as the Golden Age of Comics. She escaped from Nazi-occupied Vienna to England and later New York City, whereupon she found work as a penciller and inker at the comics publisher Fiction House, working on such features as "Jane Martin", "The Werewolf Hunter", "The Lost World" and "Señorita Rio".