Lost Girls | |
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Cover of Lost Girls single-volume hardcover edition.
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Publication information | |
Publisher |
Top Shelf Productions (previously Steve Bissette and Tundra) |
Format | graphic novel (partially serialised) |
Genre | Erotic fantasy |
Publication date | 1991–1992 (partial) 2006 |
Main character(s) | Lady Fairchild (Alice) Dorothy Gale Wendy Darling-Potter ("Wendy Darling") |
Creative team | |
Writer(s) | Alan Moore |
Artist(s) | Melinda Gebbie |
Letterer(s) | Todd Klein |
Creator(s) | Alan Moore Melinda Gebbie |
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Lost Girls | ISBN |
Lost Girls is a graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Melinda Gebbie, depicting the sexually explicit adventures of three female fictional characters of the late 19th and early 20th century: Alice from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Dorothy Gale from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Wendy Darling from J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy. They meet as adults in 1913 and describe and share some of their erotic adventures with each other.
Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (now grey-haired, and called "Lady Fairchild"), Dorothy from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (now in her 20s) and Wendy from Peter and Wendy (now in her 30s, and married to a man in his 50s named Harold Potter) are visiting the expensive mountain resort "Hotel Himmelgarten" in Austria on the eve of World War I (1913–1914). 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:
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 of Austria. The graphic novel ends with Alice's mirror being destroyed by German soldiers who burn down the Hotel.