for a Hollywood movie studio, and Wendy is a costume designer. Elfquest and Wendy Pini are both referenced in Marvel's Uncanny X-Men #153 (January 1982), "Kitty's Fairy Tale", written by Chris Claremont. In that issue, Kitty Pryde wears an Elfquest T-shirt throughout, while a 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 Charlton Bullseye #10 (December 1982) in a Thunderbunny story written by 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. References External links Wendy Pini at the Comic Book Database Richard Pini at the Comic Book Database Masque of the Red Death—an erotic, "decadent" re-telling of the original Poe story in webcomic format by Wendy Pini Finding aid for the Wendy and Richard Pini papers at Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Female comics writers Living people Married couples WaRP Graphics Year of birth missing (living people) Inkpot Award winners