Mary Wilshire

[2] Her earliest credited work was "Those Beautiful Babes in their Bain de Soleil", a four-page story in Wet Satin #2 (April 1978) published by Last Gasp.

She became the artist of the Red Sonja series in 1983[4] and drew the comics adaptation of the character's 1985 film.

[5] After a brief stint as the artist of the New Mutants, Wilshire collaborated with Tom DeFalco on the Firestar limited series.

[6] Wilshire drew "The Amazing Travel Bureau" feature in National Geographic World for several years.

[7] Publishers Weekly noted in their review of the book, "Wilshire's limpid-eyed charcoal sketches are sensitive and touching, and give a sophisticated sense of person and place.