Alan moore lost girl

Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. Lost Girls 1 Lost Girls, Book 1.

Also available digitally in three volumes one , two , three. 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. It's genuinely dangerous. Whatever you call it, there has never been anything quite like this in the world before, and I find myself extraordinarily pleased that someone of Moore's ability actually has written that sort of comics for adults. 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.

Alan moore lost girl

Let us also put the elephant in the room, as it were, on the table. It seems almost, forgive my infelicity, perverse not to point out that Lost Girls is the decade-long project of a strange bearded man who came to sleep with and marry the artist , and who worships the ancient Roman snake god Glycon, who he admits was created as a fraud. What is perhaps most striking about Lost Girls , then, is that the reader thinks about almost none of this while reading it, if only because of how very obscene the book is. Because this is, I think, what is so very easy to forget in talking about Lost Girls : the book is obscene. I do not merely mean shocking — though it certainly is that as well. It could be shocking by just suggesting that Alice, Dorothy, and Wendy might be having sex. It goes much further than that, such that if we must remark upon the contrast it offers between its literary origins and its goals and I cannot see how we could avoid doing so , we must not lose sight of some simple facts. Thankfully, Alan Moore has I hesitate to say suffers, since it seems he enjoys every minute of it a tendency towards the pathologically didactic. And, while Moore is not a magistrate, he does worship a fake Roman snake god — a theological decision that, to say the least, leaves open the possibility of madness. In Promethea , sex is inexorably linked with a vision of the divine — one that is in turn linked with an external realm of dreams and possibilities, literalized in Promethea as the Immateria — the realm in which all human imagination resides. On the one hand in Lost Girls , by sexualizing Neverland, Wonderland, and Oz, Moore is repeating the move from Promethea , linking sexuality with the realm of human imagination that he in turn associates with the sacred and divine.

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Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Buy on Amazon. Rate this book. Lost Girls Lost Girls. Alan Moore , Melinda Gebbie Illustrator. Now available in an exquisite three volume box set: the erotic masterpiece from Alan Moore , the visionary behind Watchmen , From Hell , and V for Vendetta!

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 Beardsley. Melinda 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.

Alan moore lost girl

The groundbreaking, controversial masterpiece of erotic comics, decades in the making, now in a sumptuous hardcover collecting all three volumes, with 32 pages of new artwork and commentary. 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.

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Lost Girls , however, is all about consequences. Barrie 's Peter Pan. Did I masturbate afterwards? And the spell was broken, just like that. Trigger warning!!!!! But porn has changed since then, for the worse, and where the illict desires previously deserved their own attention, our sexualized world now takes that desire for granted. What a fascinating idea! I also thought the cover art was beautiful. Not unlike intimate activities between consenting adults, this book is something about which each individual should make up their own mind. If you're easily bored, like me, don't waste your time. For example, through most of the first book, Alice story line was represented via the looking glass, woods and her shoes were a recurring theme for Dorothy and for Wendy, everything around her were a bit Victorian. William Wallace Denslow John R.

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Barrie 's Peter and Wendy. Why, they are almost innocent. Each has vivid memories of childhood fantasies -- fantasies that carried them to Wonderland, Oz, and Never Never Land. Lost Girls is, after all, a rather obvious text. We would have been rightly accused of having done something that was a literary work, which dodged the real issues that it set out to address. Porn can be artistic. He'd sigh, and all I'd hear was wind between the corn. If you're easily bored, like me, don't waste your time. They all feel they have a secret, but it's just the idea of a child's imagination and secret worlds. Author 13 books followers. You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other. All rights reserved. As a comics writer, Moore is notable for being one of the first writers to apply literary and formalist sensibilities to the mainstream of the medium. Too confining.