Episode #17
The Women That Comics Forgot
Jul 9, 20268 minS1
Lily Renée survived the Holocaust, got to New York, and became a Golden Age comics artist. She was written out of history for forty years. She was 97 when comics finally found her again.
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The Macroverse Dispatch
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We think comics should be taken seriously. Spectacularly so. so each week I dive into a piece of the comics universe, be that history, upcoming books, artists or something completely random like quantum physics (which was my degree, weirdly enough...).
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What is The Macroverse Dispatch about?
We think comics should be taken seriously. Spectacularly so. so each week I dive into a piece of the comics universe, be that history, upcoming books, artists or something completely random like quantum physics (which was my degree, weirdly enough...).
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Recent episodes include "The Women That Comics Forgot" (9 July 2026, 8 minutes), "Episode 15 - What gets Lost When Comics Become Films" (24 June 2026, 7 minutes), and "The 300 Year Old Comic" (17 June 2026, 8 minutes).
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