Taboo Erotica: Lost Girls by Alan Moore
About The Book:
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. Through their familiar fairytales they share with us their most intimate revelations of desire in its many forms… revelations that shine out radiantly through the dark clouds of war gathering around a luxury Austrian hotel.
Drawing on the rich heritage of erotica, Lost Girls is the rediscovery of the power of ecstatic writing and art in a sublime union that only the medium of comics can achieve. Exquisite, thoughtful, and human, Lost Girls is a work of breathtaking scope that challenges the very notion of art fettered by convention. This is erotic fiction at its finest.
I’ll start by saying this is one of those books to own in hardcover. The illustrations are beautiful and there is really no other way to enjoy this book. Don’t bother with a digital version.
As for the book itself, this is a beautiful, sexy piece of story telling which reintroduces us to Wendy, Alice, and Dorothy by telling us their stories like never before. If you’ve ever fetishized any of those stories or characters like I did, then this is a must read. The women, now grown, take turns telling us the story of their sexual awakenings, and as you might imagine it’s raunchy, honest, and beautiful all at the same time.
I’m putting in the Taboo section because it deals with teenage sexuality, some incest, and some otherwise boundary pushing plot lines.
Alan Moore is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs “workings” (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.
