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| Lost Girls | 
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| Authors: Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Category: Book
Buy New: $80.06
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 24509
Media: Hardcover Comic
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 264
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.3
Dimensions (in): 12.4 x 9.3 x 2.7
ISBN: 1891830740
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781891830747
ASIN: 1891830740
Publication Date: September 13, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 "WHAT HAPPENED TO MELINDA GEBBIE?" February 5, 2007
13 out of 39 found this review helpful
I read "Lost Girls"and I agree,this girl is "lost."Melinda Gebbie,who said,she was going to quit porno-comics,and go back to fine art,did "Lost Girls"and her art is no longer either pornographic,nor arousing.Read "Wimmen's comix",the issue on,"Wimmen and Crime."Now,THAT'S sex!!Melinda Gebbie was one of the foremost women pornographers of the 70's.She was intense,violent,creative,original,and her art was fantastic. Yet,in "lost Girls",which is supposed to be arousing sexually,it looks like a flat excercise. She uses art nouveau style,and old Victorian child story styles,and it is clear she has talent. Just not any talent for erotica or porn anymore.
Almost all of the Underground women cartoonists of the 70's have gotten married to successful men,or successful artists,and abandoned their own careers,and become housewives.Melinda Gebbie is no different.It's a very sad testament to women artists and cartoonists of the Liberated Age.The Wife of the Successful Man. Melinda Gebbie,too,has lost her "spunk" and edge.The art for "Lost Girls" is "pretty",[...].
 Not for the kids! March 2, 2007
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Three women meet at an Austrian hotel before the outbreak of WWI, and share their deepest, most secret stories - and each other. The women in question just happen to be Wendy Darling from Peter Pan, Alice Fairchild from Alice in Wonderland, and one Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz. And you have never heard their stories told quite like this.
Much like he did with the fantastic League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (pick up the books; the movie was beyond atrocious), Moore brings together heroes of popular literature and then reworks their mythologies to elucidate, educate and here, shock. Lost Girls is essentially pornography, of the lush and secretive kind written in the late 19th century. And it's not shy about it, either. If you are easily offended or embarrassed, this book is not for you.
In many ways, though, it's worth a look regardless of your sensitivities. It's a gorgeous piece of work - beautifully painted and cloth-bound like a set of children's books. Moore's working with his entire bag of tricks: visual and verbal double entrendres; multilayered structures; erudite, hyper-literate presentation; and a sly sense of humor. And his treatment of three very familiar, much beloved stories is wickedly clever - he transforms the womens' tales into revelations of sexual awakening, of feverish fantasies and unfettered appetites. Believe me, you will never think of the Scarecrow, the Tin Man or the Lion in the same way ever again.
Lost Girls seemingly knows no bounds, crossing often, and effortlessly, from sapphic lust into full-blown incest. If the book were a commentary on the subjective nature of pornography - one man's filth is another man's fancy - that's where it lost me. It may be more successful in comparing these taboos to the carnage and destruction of World War I - one is certainly more unnatural and ungodly than the other, but only barely.
No matter how you take it, Lost Girls is an imaginative revisionist piece of literature, a bold achievement in graphic novels and another outstanding addition to Moore's oeuvre. 4.5/5.
Up there in my favorite GNs October 28, 2006
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
These books caused me to think about the events. They drew in my interest for the characters and their stories. And, in all honesty, they were arrousing. I've read other Alan Moore titles. I found Watchmen to be good, V for Vendetta excellent, and Lost Girls was even better than these. While the art wasn't a style I'm particularly fond of, I thought it was perfect for this title. It blended perfectly with the story telling.
If not for my love of Dawn and Fables, this might have been my favorite Graphic Novel. I suppose it will have to take third place.
 Yeah its Porn. January 4, 2007
10 out of 41 found this review helpful
I mean if you want to you call this literature if you want. But Lost Girls is really just an expensive porn comic and the writing isnt any better then anything your find in any exrotic story magazine and as many have said the art isnt all that great either. Alan Moore is a great writer. But this isnt one of his best (aka The Watchmen, V for Vendatta). Now i dont got anything against porn. But really call it for what it is. Plus the idea of taking childhood characters like Alice, Dorothy, & Wendy and turning it into porn really dosnt sit all that good with me. Sure you could say they were stories about sexual exploration. But they where mainly stories about growing up. Overall its not a bad book (if your into this kind of thing). But its just not Moore's best.
A solid piece of erotic fiction April 2, 2007
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
While the art style may not appeal to everyone, "Lost Girls" is certainly worth a look if you like erotic fiction with a little more substance. The books provide an amusing interpretation of the "real" events behind "Alice in Wonderland", "Peter Pan" and "The Wizard of Oz". While the first two books do not appear to be particularily thought-provoking at first, they set the stage for some potent character development in the third book, when the formerly frivolous stories are cast in a harsh, new light.
Of note is that while events take on a darker tone in the third book, "Lost Girls" does not contain any particularily violent scenes. Unlike in most adult media, the focus of these three books is not the gratuitous depiction of extreme sexual acts, but raising questions and telling a solid story with believable characters. Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie have done a great job, showing that pornography doesn't necessarily belong in the gutter.
All things said, "Lost Girls" is a charming, bittersweet tale about saying goodbye to your childhood, leaving your make-believe world and growing up, and well worth the price.
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