Wendy and Richard Pini

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Wendy Pini
San Francisco, California, United States
Area(s)
  • Writer
  • penciler
  • inker
Notable works
Elfquest, Wendy Pini's Masque of the Red Death
elfquest.com
Richard Pini
Born (1950-07-19) July 19, 1950 (age 73)
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Area(s)
  • Writer
  • editor
  • publisher
Notable works
Elfquest

Wendy Pini[a] (née Fletcher; born June 4, 1951)[1] and Richard Pini (born July 19, 1950)[1] are the husband-and-wife team responsible for creating the well-known Elfquest series of comics, graphic novels and prose works. They are also known as WaRP (as in Warp Graphics).

Early life

Wendy Fletcher was born in San Francisco in 1951, and from an early age demonstrated the talents later to come to fruition as a professional illustrator, and eventually as the creator of Elfquest.

Wendy's youthful interest in fantasy was inspired in part by

Kipling. She took artistic inspiration from Victorian illustrators such as Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, designers such as Walt Disney, Doug Wildey, and Erté, as well as comic book greats such as Jack Kirby and Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka
.

Richard Pini was born in 1950, in New Haven, Connecticut. After an exemplary academic performance at school, he was accepted into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for an astrophysics degree. Always a fan of science fiction, at college he found a new diversion in comic books.

Wendy Fletcher and Richard Pini met when Pini read a

Charles Hayden Planetarium as lecturer, photographer, script writer and special effects technician. Later, he taught high school astronomy, then worked for IBM until Elfquest became a full-time occupation.[4]

Career

Fletcher contributed several covers and illustrations to Galaxy Science Fiction and Galileo magazines in the mid-1970s. Prior to the widespread publication of Elfquest, Wendy was also known for dressing up at comic book conventions as Red Sonja.[5][6]

Elfquest

Main article: Elfquest
James A. Owen (left) speaking with Wendy and Richard Pini (center, right) at the 2019 Phoenix Fan Fusion

Elfquest, a fantasy story about a community of elves, was launched in 1978 with art and co-writing by Wendy Pini. Richard Pini, who had been working for IBM,[7] is credited as co-writer and editor on Elfquest, as well as handling all of the publishing and business aspects of Warp Graphics.

Stormbringer

Wendy Pini wrote a book documenting her attempt to make an animated film project of the

Father Tree Press (an imprint of the Pinis' WaRP Graphics) in 1987. The book contains original artwork, information on the characters, an overview of the plot, and Wendy Pini's personal investment in the project. The film never reached completion. However, the full content of Law and Chaos may be found on the Masque of the Red Death web site.[8]

Masque of the Red Death

Main article: Wendy Pini's Masque of the Red Death

In 2007, Wendy Pini turned her attention to a new project unrelated to Elfquest. Taking the Edgar Allan Poe short story "

web comic formats, giving it a futuristic, dystopic slant.[9]

Other work

In addition to Elfquest, Wendy Pini also created two graphic novels based on the TV series

Gargoyles trade paperback and mentions being a fan of the show
.

Awards and honors

Appearances in other media

Characters based on Richard and Wendy Pini appear in Ghost Rider volume 1, #14 (Oct. 1975), as well as issues #15, #17, #18, and #19, which were written by Tony Isabella. Richard is a special effects technician and props arranger for a Hollywood movie studio, and Wendy is a costume designer.

Elfquest and Wendy Pini are both referenced in Marvel's

sprite named "Pini" makes an appearance with "Bamf
" on p. 16.

In Fantastic Four #242 (May 1982), series writer/artist John Byrne portrays an Elfquest play staged at a theatre built over the site of the flophouse where the Human Torch found the amnesiac Namor in Fantastic Four #4.

Richard Pini is caricatured as a mad scientist in

Martin Greim
.

In Robert Lynn Asprin's MythAdventures series Wendy and Richard appear in the dimension of Limbo as Drahcir and Idnew: the Woof Writers, a husband and wife team of werewolves.

Notes

  1. ^ /ˈpiːni/

References

  1. ^ a b Miller, John Jackson (June 10, 2005). "Comics Industry Birthdays". Comics Buyer's Guide. Archived from the original on February 18, 2011. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
  2. ^ Stated by Richard Pini in Marvel Comics Elfquest #1, cover dated August 1985, on the "Quests and Answers" letter page.
  3. ^ Cronin, Brian. "Comic Legends: When the Comics Code Declared War on Letter Columns: In a Bonus Comic Book Legends Revealed, find out the strange reason why the Comics Code Authority turned on comic letter columns!", CBR (June 20, 2018).
  4. ^ "ElfQuest". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
  5. ^ Evanier, Mark. "Notes From Me" Archived 2005-11-03 at the Wayback Machine POV Online (Dec. 31, 2004). Accessed April 28, 2009.
  6. ^ Hegeman, Tom. "CONVENTION REPORTS," The Comics Journal #32 (Jan. 1977), p. 23.
  7. ^ "Wendy & Richard Pini Biographies". Warp Graphics, Inc. Archived from the original on March 16, 2010. Retrieved April 20, 2010.
  8. ^ "Law & Chaos - Wendy Pini". Archived from the original on 2010-12-11. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
  9. ^ Back cover, Masque of the Red Death, by Wendy Pini, Vol. 1, published by Go! Media Entertainment, June 2008
  10. ^ MIT Freshman Picture Book, 1987 and 1988
  11. ^ "Lulu Award". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on January 26, 2013.
  12. ^ First Comic News - 2021 INKWELL AWARDS VOTING RESULTS
  13. ^ 2021 Winners - Inkwell Awards Official Site

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