Alan Moore & Melanie Gebbie - Lost Girls Book 3 [CBR]

Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie - Lost Girls Book 3 [CBR]

"Alan and I were going through difficult questions that people might say to me at San Diego," said Gebbie. "And he said, 'What would you say if people said to you that this is tantamount to child molestation or whatever? How could you justify doing this artwork?' And I would say I'm every single character that I draw. Just like you're them when you're writing them. And if I'm the character to whom these things are happening, I couldn't possibly accuse myself of not caring, because the whole response is to try and be that clarifying voice that shows you what it feels like to be that person and having that thing happen to you.

"That's supposed to be what Art is about. It helps you understand the humanity, the spirituality, the emotional realm and the view of the subject. And if Art can't elucidate it, then nothing can, and women have been used as objects and ciphers and victims just like it's happening with children. Children have thoughts about all these things. I went back a lot to my own childhood curiosities, my own childhood experiences, which the child's response is 'I don't want to be in trouble, I don't want to be hurt, I don't want to be frightened.' A lot of what parents and adults do with children is make them feel wrong for having their own responses to things, and there's rarely a dialogue between parent and child where the parent has informed opinions about what the child should do. It's a very complex area and anybody can interfere with it in terms of families.

"If I couldn't get into something, then I would wait until I could. Like the stuff with Dorothy and the field hands, I really feel her innocence," continued Gebbie. I really feel Wendy's unhappiness and guilt. I really feel Alice's rejection of society and its rejection of her and her cleverness, and the things that happened to her that she didn't understand that saddened her, that confused her, that alienated her… It would have been a terrible travesty, this book, if it had been one of those typical kind of things that people usually come up with, prison fodder."

- Melinda Gebbie

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