Posted on December 6, 2011
Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer This is quite a remarkable little book, by quite an artist-writer duo, on quite a subject. The daughter of a Yiddish journalist and one of the founders of Underground Comix in the late 1960s, Trina Robbins was also a central figure in women’s comics in the 1970s-1990s. The Lily Renee story, is firstly about the discrimination and persecution suffered by Renee in pre-war Vienna, and her escape via Kindertransport.