Andy Weir's Comics Forum Forum

[Andy]

About Alan Moore’s "Lost Girls":

Lost Girls is a work by Alan Moore, featuring Alice, Wendy, and Dorothy in 1913, telling stories to each other of erotic adventures they have had in their pasts. You can read about it here. As of when I write this, Lost Girls is not yet available for purchase, though it can be pre-ordered.

I was about halfway through making issue 1 of Cheshire Crossing when I first heard about Lost Girls. I almost cancelled Cheshire Crossing when I heard about it, but decided against it. Firstly, because I had put so much work into it already, and secondly because the stories and styles are so completely different, I wasn't worried about overlap.

Lost Girls is porn. Cheshire Crossing is adventure.

Many people assume that Cheshire Crossing is based on or inspired by Lost Girls. It isn't. In fact, aside from portions and teasers of Lost Girls published in magizines, Cheshire Crossing was out first. Because Lost Girls is a print comic which will have hundreds of times the number of readers as Cheshire Crossing, some people feel it has some sort of "priority" of originiality. I don't.

I am writing this post, and making it an announcement, to try to stave off or at least reduce the flood of emails "informing" me about the existence of Lost Girls. Yes, thank you, I have heard about it.

Now please accept Cheshire Crossing for what it is: A completely different story, concept, style, and genre of comic. Like it or hate it on its own merits.

-ATW