Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie
Requirements: CBR Reader, 187 MB.
Overview: For more than a century, Alice, Wendy and Dorothy have been our guides through the Wonderland, Neverland and Land of Oz of our childhoods. Now like us, these three lost girls have grown up and are ready to guide us again, this time through the realms of our sexual awakening and fulfillment. Through their familiar fairytales they share with us their most intimate revelations of desire in its many forms, revelations that shine out radiantly through the dark clouds of war gathering around a luxury Austrian hotel. Drawing on the rich heritage of erotica, Lost Girls is the rediscovery of the power of ecstatic writing and art in a sublime union that only the medium of comics can achieve. Exquisite, thoughtful, and human, Lost Girls is a work of breathtaking scope that challenges the very notion of art fettered by convention. This is erotic fiction at its finest. Similar to DC’s Absolute editions of Watchmen and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It will truly be an edition for the ages.
- "Lost Girls is to erotic literature what Moore’s now classic 1987 Watchmen (with Dave Gibbons) was to the superhero scene. Each busts the frames of its respective genre with formal precision; each reflects upon its own ways and means through books within the book; and, most importantly, each kicks great writing into hyperdrive with dense and resonant imagery." — The Village Voice
"I think Lost Girls is not only one of the best things Alan Moore has ever written, I also think it’s a fairly important work of art judged by any standard. It’s genuinely dangerous. … One of the most human and heartfelt pieces of work of his career." — Ain’t It Cool News
"Intelligent writing, intricate plotlines and gorgeous Victorian-style art." — USA Today
"As thoughtful as it is provocative." — Wired Magazine
Moore is one of the most critically acclaimed writers in the field of comic books, and the release of this work received widespread coverage in the industry media. Despite the price of US$75, the book’s first two print runs of 10,000 each sold out at the distributor level on the day of their release, with the U.S. sales at the end of 2007 reaching 35,000 copies.
Genre: Comics, Fiction, Romance, Mature Reader.
Lost Girls
- Alan Moore writer, artist
Melinda Gebbie artist, penciler, inker, colorist, cover
Todd Klein letterer
Published by Top Shelf, 2006.
- Lost Girls is a graphic novel depicting the sexually explicit adventures of three important female fictional characters of the late 19th and early 20th century: 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 and describe and share some of their erotic adventures with each other. The story is written by Alan Moore and drawn by Melinda Gebbie.
Alice from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (now a grey-haired old woman named "Lady Fairchild"), Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz (now in her 20s) and Wendy from Peter Pan (now named "Wendy Potter", in her 30s, and married to a man named Harold Potter who is 20 years older) are visiting an expensive mountain resort hotel in Austria on the eve of World War I (1913–1914). The hotel, named "Hotel Himmelgarten", is run by a man named Monsieur Rougeur. At the hotel, Dorothy meets a man named Captain Rolf Bauer.
The women meet by chance and begin to exchange erotic stories from their pasts. The stories are based on the childhood fantasy worlds of the three women:
- Wendy, John, and Michael Durling. Wendy’s sexual escapades begin in meeting a homeless teenage boy named Peter and his sister Annabel in Kensington Gardens. Peter follows the three siblings home that night and teaches them sexual games. Wendy and her brothers begin meeting Peter and his group of homeless boys in the park for sex regularly. These encounters are watched privately by a paedophile called The Captain, a co-worker of Wendy’s father. The Captain later hires Peter as a male prostitute and brutally rapes Annabel. He attempts to attack Wendy, but she challenges him, saying that he molests children because he is afraid of aging himself. He breaks down in tears, and Wendy is able to flee. She only sees Peter once more, soliciting himself in a train station. She marries the much older Harold Potter because she is not attracted to him, and would not have to think about enjoying sex ever again.
Dorothy Gale. It was while trapped in her house during a cyclone that she began masturbating and experienced her first orgasm at the age of sixteen. She has sexual encounters with three farm hands whom she refers to as The Straw Man, The Cowardly Lion and The Tin Man. Throughout most of her stories, she refers to her "Aunt" and "Uncle", however, Wendy and Alice later bring her to confess that they are, in fact, her Father and Step-Mother. Her affairs are discovered by her step-mother. Her father takes her to New York City under the pretense of seeking psychological help. Dorothy and her father have sex regularly until they return home. She begins to feel guilt and remorse for destroying her father’s marriage. Not long after, she leaves to travel the world.
Alice Fairchild. At fourteen, she is coerced into sex with her father’s friend. During this, she stares into a mirror and imagines she is having sex with herself. At an all-girls boarding school, Alice convinces many of her schoolmates to sleep with her. She develops a strong attraction to her P.E. teacher, Ms. Regent. As Ms. Regent is leaving her teaching position, she shares a passionate good-bye kiss with Alice on her last day, and offers her a job as a Personal Assistant. Alice leaves school to work for Ms. Regent, who is now married to a wealthy man named Mr. Redman. Alice becomes her employer’s sexual plaything, and Mrs. Redman begins hosting extravagant, drug-fueled lesbian sex parties. Alice becomes addicted to opium, and watches a young girl named Lily, among many others, abused just as she was. One night while Mr. and Mrs. Redman are treating many friends to dinner, Lily crawls under the table under the instruction of Mrs. Redman and performs cunnilingus on Alice. This sends Alice over the edge, as she ragingly exposes her employer’s secrets. Mrs. Redman vehemently denies Alice’s claims, and she is dragged out (and molested) by two waiters. Alice is subsequently declared insane, and is put into a mental hospital. The hospital staff systematically rape her, and upon release Alice continues having sex with many women and using drugs. Her family disowns her, and she moves to Africa to run a diamond mine they owned.
In addition to the three women’s erotic flashbacks, the graphic novel depicts sexual encounters between the women and other guests and staff of the hotel. The erotic adventures are set against the backdrop of unsettling cultural and historic events of the period, such as the debut of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The graphic novel ends with Alice’s mirror being destroyed by German soldiers who burn down the Hotel.
In the US and Canada, many retailers have stated that they will not stock the book out of fear of possible obscenity prosecution, though some said they might make the book available to their customers via special order and simply not stock it.
Moore states that the storm of criticism which he and Gebbie expected did not materialize, which he attributes in part to his design of Lost Girls as a "benign" form of pornography (he cites "people like Angela Carter who, in her book The Sadeian Women… admitted… the possibility [of] a form of pornography that was benign, that was imaginative, was beautiful, and which didn’t have the problems that she saw in a lot of other pornography" as inspirations for the work). He has also said that his own description of Lost Girls as "pornography" has "wrong-footed a lot of… people." Moore speculates that "if we’d have come out and said, ‘well, this is a work of art,’ they would have probably all said, ‘no it’s not, it’s pornography.’ So because we’re saying, ‘this is pornography,’ they’re saying, ‘no it’s not, it’s art,’ and people don’t realise quite what they’ve said."
In the UK, graphic artists and publishers fear that the book could be illegal to possess under the Coroners and Justice Act, which criminalises any sexual image depicting a "child", defined as anyone appearing under the age of 18.
- Reviewed by Neil Gaiman:
- Almost 10 years before his The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen took many of the figures of Victorian popular fiction on a remarkable romp, Alan Moore, in collaboration with underground artist Melinda Gebbie, began Lost Girls, with a similar, although less fantastical, conceit: that the three women whose adventures in girlhood may have inspired respectively, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan and Wendy and the Wizard of Oz, meet in a Swiss hotel shortly before the first World War. Wendy, Dorothy and Alice, three very different women—one jaded and old; one trapped in a frigid adulthood; the last a spunky but innocent young American good-time girl—provide each other with the liberation they need, while also providing very different (and, for this is a pornography, very sexual) versions of the stories we associate with them. We go with the girls, in memory, to the incidents that became the Rabbit Hole, Oz and Neverland. As a formal exercise in pure comics, Lost Girls is as good as anything Moore has written. (One of my favorite moments: a husband and wife trapped in a frozen, loveless, sexless relationship, conduct a stiff conversation, laced with unconscious puns and wordplay, moving into positions that cause their shadows to appear to copulate wildly, finding the physical passion that the people are denied.) In addition to being a master-class in comics technique, Lost Girls is also an education in Edwardian smut—Gebbie and Moore pastiche the pornography of the period, taking in everything from The Oyster to the Venus and Tannhauser period work of Aubrey BeardsleyMelinda Gebbie was a strange and inspired choice as collaborator for Moore. She draws real people, with none of the exaggerated bodies usual to superhero or porno comics. Gebbie’s people, drawn for the most part in gentle crayons, have human bodies,.Lost Girls is a bittersweet, beautiful, exhaustive, problematic, occasionally exhausting work. It succeeded for me wonderfully as a true graphic novel. If it failed for me, it was as smut. The book, at least in large black-and-white photocopy form, was not a one-handed read. It was too heady and strange to appreciate or to experience on a visceral level. (Your mileage may vary; porn is, after all, personal.)Top Shelf has chosen to package it elegantly and expensively, presenting it to the world not as pornography, but as erotica. It is one of the tropes of pure pornography that events are without consequence. No babies, no STDs, no trauma, no memories best left unexamined. Lost Girls parts company from pure porn in precisely that place: it’s all about consequences, not to mention war, music, love, lust, repression and memory.
- Reviewed by Gordon Flagg:
- Although Moore (Watchmen, 1987; From Hell, 2000) is arguably comics’ most popular writer, many fans and more libraries may be scared off from his latest project, an unabashedly porno graphic novel in which Wonderland’s Alice, Oz’s Dorothy, and Neverland’s Wendy reveal their carnal natures by relating their past sexual encounters and coupling in the present, especially with one another. While explicit sex, including incest, is on virtually every page, Moore has an agenda beyond titillation. The work voices an impassioned defense of artistic freedom that stresses that fiction and fantasies aren’t the same as actual events and behavior. "Only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them," one character proclaims. Gebbie’s delicate, painted style, rife with art nouveau references, somewhat mitigates the sensational subject matter. She and Moore have labored on Lost Girls since 1991, and the book’s lavish production (three oversize, hardcover volumes in a slipcase) monumentalizes their dedication and adds a high price tag to the red-flag contents to put off all but readers and collections highly tolerant of the transgressive.
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