The Complete ElfQuest, Volume One by Wendy Pini

The art isn't your typical comic fare of the time period. Instead of wanting to save the world, the Wolfriders and their elfin allies seek only to find where they came from and where they belong.įlowery hippy crap aside, this is great stuff. I have to think there's a little Michael Moorcock in their parentage as well. The Wolfriders have more in common with Native American culture than they do Professor Tolkien's creations. There are science fantasy elements lurking in the background. It's not your typical Tolkien by way of Dungeons and Dragons fantasy. For my money, ElfQuest has a lot going for it. Yeah, I should have picked this up decades ago. Needing a new series to read now that I'm caught up on Usagi Yojimbo, I eventually decided to give it a shot. We were milling around in Barnes and Noble not too long ago, waiting for some of my wife's college friends to show up, when I flipped through this tome. But are there more tribes of elves on the world of two moons and where did the come from in the first place? That's what Cutter, Leetah, and the rest of the Wolfriders want to know!ĮlfQuest was always in the periphery when I was playing Dungeons and Dragons back in the day but I never read an issue. When the Wolfriders are driven from their forest home, they endure great heartships before joining with the elves of the desert. Wendy and her husband currently reside in Poughkeepsie, New York. 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. Recently in 2007, she completed a graphic novel entitled The Masque of Red Death. 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. 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. Elfquest was self-published for 25 years and in 2003, licensed to DC Comics.

In 1977, Richard and Wendy established a publishing company called Warp Graphics to publish their first Elfquest comic. In 1972, she married Richard Pini and began illustrating science fiction magazines, including Galaxy, Galileo, and Worlds of If. in the Arts and joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society. Pini attended Pitzer College and received her B.A.

She submitted samples of her artwork to Marvel Comics at 17 that were rejected. Early on, she developed as an artist and was the illustrator of her high school year book. Wendy was born in California and adopted into the Fletcher Family in Santa Clara County. Wendy Pini is one-half of a husband and wife team with Richard Pini that created, most notably, the Elfquest series.

The Complete ElfQuest, Volume One by Wendy Pini