Mary Wilshire
BornMary Wilshire
1953 (age 69–70)
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Penciller, Inker
Notable works
Firestar
Red Sonja

Mary Wilshire (born 1953)[1] is an American comics artist best known for her work on Red Sonja and Firestar for Marvel Comics.

Early life

Mary Wilshire graduated from the Pratt Institute with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting.[1]

Career

Mary Wilshire began her career in the comics industry drawing underground comix.[2] Her earliest credited work was "Those Beautiful Babes in their Bain de Soleil", a four-page story in Wet Satin #2 (April 1978) published by Last Gasp.[3] In 1980, she was hired by editor Larry Hama to work on Crazy Magazine for Marvel Comics. She became the artist of the Red Sonja series in 1983[4] and drew the comics adaptation of the character's 1985 film.[3] Wilshire and writer Louise Simonson co-created Alistair Smythe, an enemy of Spider-Man, in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #19 (1985).[5] After a brief stint as the artist of the New Mutants, Wilshire collaborated with Tom DeFalco on the Firestar limited series.[3] She then drew a Power Girl story for Secret Origins vol. 2 #11 (Feb. 1987).[6]

Wilshire drew "The Amazing Travel Bureau" feature in National Geographic World for several years.[2] In 2006, she illustrated the Fat Free: The Amazing All-True Adventures of Supersize Woman! graphic novel published by Penguin/Tarcher.[7] Publishers Weekly noted in their review of the book, "Wilshire's limpid-eyed charcoal sketches are sensitive and touching, and give a sophisticated sense of person and place. If anything saves the day, it's Wilshire's gorgeous art, not the message."[8]

Bibliography

DC Comics

Fantagraphics Books

Friends of Lulu

Hassle Free Press

HM Communications, Inc.

Last Gasp

Marvel Comics

NBM Publishing

  • Skin Tight Orbit #1 (1995)

Penguin/Tarcher

  • Fat Free: The Amazing All-True Adventures of Supersize Woman! (2006)

Renegade Press

  • Renegade Romance #1 (1987)

Trans-High Corporation

References

  1. 1 2 Bails, Jerry (2006). "Wilshire, Mary". Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999. Archived from the original on May 11, 2007. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Mary Wilshire". Lambiek Comiclopedia. 2019. Archived from the original on June 3, 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 Mary Wilshire at the Grand Comics Database
  4. ↑ Bishop, Chris (2016). "Chapter 5: Red Sonja". Medievalist Comics and the American Century. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. p. 140. ISBN 978-1496808509.
  5. ↑ Manning, Matthew K. (2012). "1980s". In Gilbert, Laura (ed.). Spider-Man Chronicle Celebrating 50 Years of Web-Slinging. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 151. ISBN 978-0756692360.
  6. ↑ Wells, John (August 2017). "Their Lives Were an Open Book: Secret Origins 1986–1990". Back Issue!. Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing (98): 5–6.
  7. ↑ Milner, Jude; Wilshire, Mary (2006). Fat Free: The Amazing All-True Adventures of Supersize Woman!. New York City: Penguin/Tarcher. pp. 80. ISBN 978-1585425013.
  8. ↑ "Fat Free: The Amazing All-True Adventures of Supersize Woman!". Publishers Weekly. n.d. Archived from the original on June 4, 2019.
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