American illustrator Melinda Gebbie has told the Village Voice that Lost Girls, the collaborative graphic novel she has created with V For Vendetta’s Alan Moore, is porn for women.
[Village Voice] Men are the stereotypical consumers and creators of pornography. Women are left out of the equation completely.
[Melinda Gebbie] That was my first and foremost consideration in my mind at all times. This was going to be pornography for women or it wasn’t worth doing. Women like a sense of aesthetics in pornography. They don’t like looking at females who are cold and abused and unhappy. That’s what they see looking at them from just about every porn image.
To dumb it down a bit (or a lot), Lost Girls is a pervy comic book. It’s a highly sexualised graphic tale of three fictional female characters – Wendy from Peter Pan, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, and Alice (as in Wonderland) – living it up in a European hotel.
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I saw news items regarding the controversy surrounding this book, especially regarding the Peter Pan characters, but I must admit to skimming over it. I liked comic books/graphic novels when I was about 11, but I moved on. I’ve always just liked plain text. That’s just a bias on my part, possibly reinforced by 3 years studying English Literature. Still, if graphic novels are going to have female-friendly graphic sex in them, I may have to start getting interested.
The voice also has an article on the book and Alan Moore here. Wikipedia has a nice overview, and Violet Blue has images from the book.