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Wendy Pini

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Born: June 03 1951

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Wendy Pini is one-half of a husband and wife team with Richard Pini that created, most notably, the Elfquest series.

Wendy was born in California and adopted into the Fletcher Family in Santa Clara County. Early on, she developed as an artist and was the illustrator of her high school year book. She submitted samples of her artwork to Marvel Comics at 17 that were rejected.

Pini attended Pitzer College and received her B.A. in the Arts and joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society.

In 1972, she married Richard Pini and began illustrating science fiction magazines, including Galaxy, Galileo, and Worlds of If. In 1977, Richard and Wendy established a publishing company called Warp Graphics to publish their first Elfquest comic. Elfquest was self-published for 25 years and in 2003, licensed to DC Comics. The comic series has won several awards, including the Ed Aprill Award for Best Independent Comic, two Alley Awards, the Fantasy Festival Comic Book Awards for Best Alternative Comic, and the Golden Pen Award.

Wendy has illustrated other works, including Jonny Quest in 1986, Law and Chaos in 1987, and in 1989, two graphic novels of Beauty and the Beast. Recently in 2007, she completed a graphic novel entitled The Masque of Red Death.

Wendy has received several awards over the last four decades, including the San Diego Comic Convention Inkpot Award, the New York State Jaycees Distinguished Service Award, the Balrog Award for Best Artist, and was inducted into the Friends of Lulu Women Cartoonists Hall of Fame in 2002.

Wendy and her husband currently reside in Poughkeepsie, New York.

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Books from Wendy Pini

Fire and Flight

ElfQuest 2: The Forbidden Grove

The Complete Elfquest: Book 3: Captives of Blue Mountain

Elfquest Book #04: Quest's End

Siege at Blue Mountain: Book Five in the Elfquest Graphic Novel Series

ElfQuest: The Secret of Two-Edge

Elfquest Graphic Novel 8: Kings of the Broken Wheel

The Complete ElfQuest, Volume One

The Cry from Beyond

Elfquest The Hidden Years

Wolfrider!

Blood of Ten Chiefs

Elfquest: Journey to Sorrows End

In All But Blood

Ascent

Kahvi

Rogue's Curse (Elfquest Reader's Collection #9)

Elfquest: The Final Quest Volume 3

ElfQuest ?: Worldpool

The Rebels