To be precise, they are Alice (now Lady Fairchild) from Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy (Gale) from The Wizard of Oz, and Wendy (nee Darling, now Potter) from Peter Pan. The answer here is that they are characters drawn from fictional media.

(For a discussion of these controversial aspects of the work, see Wikipedia.)Īnd who are the Lost Girls, you may be wondering. Neither is it for you if you feel that any persons under the legal age of consent can ever willingly engage in sexual activities. If you are offended and upset by representations of human sexuality - erect penises, exposed vaginas, and the like - then this is not for you. The answer, I suppose, is that it's mostly about sex, which is vividly illustrated. So, what is this graphic novel cum book-length comic, or whatever, all about? Officially, the book is not yet on sale in the UK (copyright problems, of which more in a moment), but some copies have been imported. By comparison with other forms of fiction, you get a lot of pictures and not so many words.įirst published by Top Shelf in August 2006, Lost Girlscomes in three volumes, all enclosed in a slip case, and carrying a fairly high price tag: current Amazon price $75. The point of comics/sequential art/graphic novels is simple.

Comics, by the way, have a long history, and are sometimes known as sequential art or graphic storytelling. In other words, it is a long story told in comic-strip form, with several frames on each page. Lost Girls, by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie, falls firmly into the picture story category (as, of course, does Sweet Gwendoline). These six categories are, briefly: satirical cartoons book illustrations the picture story commercial advertising the animated cartoon and the pin-up. This, he says, exists outside the accepted area of Fine Art, and can be divided into six categories (at least). In that introduction, Jones tells us that there is a form of drawing which he calls Popular Illustration. True, John Willie's heroine, sweet Gwendoline - she of the spectacular bosom- does get in some fearful scrapes, and is frequently tied up in the most awkward positions but one really doesn't feel that she suffers any lasting damage.Īnyway, the point is that The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline came with an introduction by the artist Allen Jones. John Willie was an artist and photographer, and he might best be described as a bondage freak, though he was in my opinion harmless rather than sinister. In 1974, the Belier Press published a book called The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline, by John Willie, whose real name was John Alexander Scott Coutts.

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