Lost Girls

Lost Girls is a graphic novel in three volumes, written by Alan Moore and drawn by Melinda Gebbie. It revolves around the lives and (mostly erotic) adventures of three women who were once the heroines of classic childrens stories; Alice, of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland fame, Wendy Darling from Peter Pan, and Dorothy Gale, from The Wizard of OZ, as recounted by the women to each other when they meet at a resort in Austria shortly before the outbreak of the first World War. The narrative casts a new and sinister light on the girls' childhood fantasies, and ends with the destruction of the hotel, and of Alice's mirror, by the Germans. Moore has described the book as "a benign form of pornography", stating that he and Gebbie had expected that if they described it as a work of art, outraged critics would have said "no it's not, it's pornography", but that because they have instead admitted it is pornography, those same people have instead countered "no, it's not, it's art". Many retailers in the United States and Canada have refused to stock the book for fear of being prosecuted under obscenity laws, while publication in Britain was delayed until 2007 due to a copyright dispute with Great Ormond Street Hospital, which had held the copyright to Peter Pan since 1929.