Learn how werewolf hunter comic books quit werewolves because artists didn’t like drawing wolves in the latest Comic Book Legends Revealed
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When Lily Renée started drawing the “Werewolf Hunter” feature for Fiction House, she didn’t like drawing wolves, so she asked if we could stop making it about werewolves.
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I recently wrote an obituary for pioneering cartoonist Lily Rene, who died at the age of 101. They allowed comic books to be written and drawn, and suddenly women became serious about working in comics, and Fiction House became one of the major comics companies in terms of hiring female artists from about 1943 onwards. rice field.
Fiction House is notable in that for the most part it didn’t get into the superhero business at all like other companies of the era. Fiction House is one of the pulp fiction companies that made the transition to comic books when comic books exploded, but unlike its rivals, Fiction House only adapted its pulp sensibilities to comic books. did.
However, while no one could avoid superheroes entirely during this period, it’s interesting to see how Fiction House soaks its waters in its realm and then quickly puts it back on. One is fight comicsfeaturing a thunderous action story…
Early on, I started experimenting with comic book superheroes like Power Man…
But quickly dumped him and went back to straight action…
When patriotic superheroes heat up, fiction houses become super-American…
But quickly pushed him into the background (while still running the new SuperAmerican feature)…
Also in 1941 freedom ranger #1 definitely resembled other patriotic superheroes of the era…
But by issue #8, ranger comics It was no longer superhero-centric…
As part of the reshaping in #8, a new feature debuted called “Werewolf Hunter”.
I don’t know who wrote “The Werewolf Hunter”, but Gustav Schrottel drew the first story.
Young George Tasca drew a second “Werewolf Hunter” feature in the next issue, and his werewolf was even weirder…
Saul Rosen took over for the next few issues and he had a much more normal looking werewolf…
In issue 13, Lily Renée took over the feature, but she had a bit of a problem…she didn’t like drawing wolves!
Lily Rene explained the situation to Trina Robbins in a great 2006 Robbins interview with Rene. comic journal:
“In the end, they tried me out on a feature nobody wanted to do: Werewolf Hunter. I didn’t want to draw a wolf, so I made another one. I spoke with the writer and convinced him that it should be about magic turning a person into another creature, not a werewolf. .
her first issue, ranger comics #14 A witch is involved…
These were gorgeous comics like the next issue, but they weren’t werewolves, despite being werewolf hunters throughout the series…
of ranger comics #16, There Was At Least Three Women…
The person who became a kitten…
ranger comics #19 was the only issue involving an actual werewolf story, but look how little Rene did in that issue drawing pictures of actual wolves. , she appears as a wolf!
They are later seen as wolves, but from a distance where Rene didn’t have to draw much!
Too funny.
Boy, Rene was a great artist.
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