Mary Wilshire

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

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

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. 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. "Mary Wilshire". Lambiek Comiclopedia. 2019. Archived from the original on June 3, 2019.
  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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