I’m amazed when I think that it was six and a half years ago that the first issue of our Complete Alice series came out.
Dynamite Entertainment released a hardcover collected edition in 2010. Soleil also brought out a French language version Alice au Pays des Merveilles
Available for the first time in softcover! Join Alice on her whimsical journey down the rabbit hole. For the first time ever, Lewis Carroll’s beloved masterpiece is faithfully adapted and illustrated in its entirety, including the long-lost chapter, “The Wasp in a Wig!” From her initial meeting with the White Rabbit in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, to her final dinner party with the entire (and outrageous) Through the Looking Glass cast, every moment of Alice’s adventures in that astonishing landscape is captured in gorgeous detail. With old favourites like the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter joined now by a long-forgotten Carroll creation, The Wasp, in one of the book’s latter chapters, children and adults alike can rediscover the complete Alice tale and fall in love with Wonderland all over again!
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We adapted Lewis Carroll’s two Alice novels – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There– into four oversized issues (two for each book) with the incredible Erica Awano providing the art. It looks like this:
The idea was to do pretty much the same as we had with The Complete Dracula – creating a faithful adaptation of the original without trying to put any kind of spin, or twist, or new interpretation in there. Just like Dracula, Alice is one of those characters whose story we all think we know, but most people’s ideas are actually informed by later re-workings, particularly films. Again, just like Dracula, the original Alice stories can be a bit dusty and dry in a very Victorian way so turning it into a comic seemed like an ideal way of making those bits more digestible and accessible, especially to a young audience.
I think I’m right in saying that The Complete Alice is the only thing we’ve ever done that was specifically aimed at a children’s (or rather All Ages) audience, and it’s a book we’re both very proud of. You can read interviews and other bits and bobs we did about the project at the time by following this link.