![]() After joining them, living in a rooming house on West 72nd Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side, she took up art again. When Willheim was 16, she received a letter from her parents saying they had emigrated to the United States. She arrived in Leeds, England, and lived there for two years, working as a servant, nanny, and candy striper while waiting for her parents' escape. In 1939 or 1938 at age 14, Willheim boarded the Kindertransport, leaving her parents behind in Nazi-occupied Austria. As a child, she frequented art museums and often drew as a hobby. Her father, Rudolf Willheim, worked as a manager at the Holland America line, a transatlantic steamship company. Willheim was raised by well-to-do Jewish parents in Vienna, Austria, in the 1930s. 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". 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. Lily Renée Phillips ( née Willheim – August 24, 2022), often credited as L. ![]() ![]() ![]() Archived from the original on December 6, 2017. Lily Renée, Books of Wonder, New York City, 2011. ![]()
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