Melinda Gebbie is the San Francisco born artist previously best known for her work in the 1970s on Wimmen's Comix, the all-female underground comics anthology and her collaboration with fiancé Alan Moore on Cobweb in Tomorrow Stories. But all that will change when Top Shelf Comix releases Lost Girls, her second collaboration with Moore. The 16 years in the waiting pornographic graphic novel takes three classic female literary characters Alice of Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy of The Wizard of Oz and...
Well, I've read the first two chapters (they were published about 14 years ago) and I thought it was brilliant.
It is slash fiction/pornography, there is no getting around that, but that doesn't denigrate from what is, as ever, masterful writing from the greatest creator the medium has ever had.
I too have had it on order, since, ooh, it was announced about 2 years ago. Paid for it then too, so as you can imagine its been a long while since I've thought about it. Glad its finally coming out, that's for sure.
courtneyriot
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Los Angeles, CA
JUN 06, 2006 06:00 AM