Lost Girls (graphic novel)
Lost Girls is an adult fictional take on the future lives of three important female fictional characters of the late 19th and early 20th Century, namely Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz, and Wendy Darling from Peter Pan. They meet as adults in 1913 to describe and share some of their erotic adventures with each other.
The story is written by Alan Moore, and drawn by Melinda Gebbie (who also created and drew The Cobweb series of stories for Tomorrow Stories, part of Moore's America's Best Comics line).
It is a vision of a possible Wold Newton family, a concept which Moore also explores in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Publication
Parts of Lost Girls have appeared in Taboo magazine and Kitchen Sink Press's Tundra, which reprinted the six Taboo chapters as two separate volumes. A ten-issue series was scheduled at one point, but Moore and Gebbie instead decided to take the time to finish it, then offer it to various companies as a finished product. Eventually Top Shelf was selected as the publisher, and at one point the finished product was meant to be released in late 2003 or early 2004. More recently, Top Shelf had planned to debut it at the 2005 San Diego Comic-Con, but due to graphic design taking longer than anticipated, it is now planned for the July 2006 convention instead.
- Lost Girls Collected (by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie, Top Shelf, 26th August 2006 ISBN 1891830740)
Controversy
The graphic novel release by Top Shelf Productions has come under fire from critics who have argued that the book's controversial sexual content involving children might open up stores that carry the book and people who buy the book to be charged with child porn possession. Many retailers have argued that they will not stock the book out of fear of possible obsenity prosecution, though some have argued that they might make the book available via special order and simply not carry the book on the shelf.[1]
On June 23, 2006, official for the Great Ormond Street Hospital -- which was given the copyright to Peter Pan in J.M. Barrie's will -- announced that they felt that the book could not be published without their permission. However, Moore indicated that he would not be seeking their license.[2]
References
- ^ Rich Johnston. "Lying in the Gutter Volume 2 Column 54". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved May 31.
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External links
- The Biggest and Most Comprehensive Alan Moore website
- The Official Top Shelf Website
- Top Shelf page for the Hardcover
- Two part interview about Lost Girls for Cinescape with part two
- Two part interview at Newsarama with part two
- Violet Blue have exclusive examples of the sexually explicit images