Alice nel paese delle meraviglie - Arminia Dell`Oro

This here is an odd one.

Its a retelling of the story published by the italian publisher Edicolors. It was written by Arminia Dell`Oro and illustrated by Davide L. Marescotti.I don´t really know what the story is all about but apperantly its an all darker wonderland with a sexy teenage cosplayer as Alice.

Alice grows, appearently her costume suffers some "battle damage" through the course of the story. I like her bigness here.

But being tiny suits hr well too.

I absolutely love how she fills out the white rabbits house in this drawing. I wished we could see that kind of housefilling more often.

Not sure whats going on here, but I think its the new interpretation of the growth at the court?

Thats her tiny in that same card house so there is probably a sizechange.
*Sighs* Really, if I knew italian I´d knew whats goung on here...

New Alice in Wonderland by Rod Espinosa

Today I want to talk a little about the comic "New Alice in Wonderland" by Rod Espinosa. It is a 4 issue miniseries published by Antarctic Press in early 2006. It has a very lovely Amerimanga style. The story is mostly inspired by the 1951 Disney movie, some scenes are pretty much adapted 1:1. I think thats a pity, I wished Espinosa would have been a little closer to the book, or would have totally gone crazy with the material.
Anyway, onto the comics:

Cover of Number One. I really like Alices slightly modernized design in this comic. But why does the Hatter look like Jay Leno?

Issue one features of course the scene in the hall of doors. The way Alice drinks from the bottle and shrinks is almost identical to the Disney movie, which is not a bad thing.

Also the talking door, very Disney. They some anime-ish expressions.

We all know what happens next...

The growth looks very nice here.

Baaawl!

Heh, I like how she scares the sh*t out of the White Rabbit in this version. Her face alone is bigger than him.

Oddly shaped fan makes you shrink, so far so good.

And Alice falls into the lake of tears. And thats the size changes for the first issue.

Issue 2 features Alice and the caterpillar on the cover. Scenes in this issue are the White Rabbits house and the mushroom of the caterpillar.

And we are in the (oddly coloured) house of the rabbit. This scene is again pretty much identical with the scene in the old Disney movie.

Thats a very lovely growth, running out of room indeed.

And its not over yet!

This was always my favorite part of the Disney movie, Alice is stuck in the much too small house of the rabbit.

This is different from the movie. Here the rabbit gets help from Bill and Pat, like in the book, not from the Dodo.

Bill-O? I don´t get it, let roll with it anyway...

There goes Bill again. Sneezed out not kicked like in the movie.

Nice catch!

The way Alice shirnks here is absolutely beautyfull.

Alice runs from the nasty critters. I love the detail that one of them actually carries a poison spray. From here she gets to the encounter with the caterpillar, which leads to the following brief groths and shrink scene at the end of this issue:

Could have been longer, but the issue was at its end. I absolutely love hiow alice is smaller than an ant in one image and taller than the trees in the other. All in all issue 2 was a total size-change-fest. I appreciate this!
Issue 3 had no size changes, it did only feature the Pig & Pepper scene (which was not in the Disney movie) and the Mad Teaparty.
Which brings us to the final issue 4:

This issue is entirely at the court of the Queen of hearts. I have to say, this version of the Queen is one of the most scariest, yet awesomest designed versions of this character. She is huge, massive and you never see her full face, only her eyes the rest is always obsured by something.
Lets get to the brief growth at the end.

As in the Disney movie Alice  grows huge, gets mouthy at the queen (I just love Alices super smug face on the second page) and shrinks back almost in an instant to flee from that darn pack of cards.
All in all this is a very nice comic. A little trueer to the Disney movie than to the actual book, but thats okay, since its very well done.

Fushigi no kuni no arisu Pop Wonderland

This here is a very adorable japanese picturebook version of Alice in Wonderland. It was published a few years ago in Japan.

 The art style is a bit moe-ish anime style. This is definitively one of the cutest versions of Alice I own.

The "Drink Me" stuff comes in a beaker? Why not? It still works appearntly. Nice perspective shot in the second picture.

Aw. Don´t you just want to give her a big hug? Emphasis on BIG.

Oddly there is no scene in the White Rabbits house in this book, which is really a shame! Here she is again in the hall of doors, ready to get into the garden.

And we are in the court room. This pic always makes me chuckle. The was thecritters fall over and Alices position make it look like she farted on them.
All in all a cute book. If you like cute versions of the story this may be the thing for you.

Illustriete Klassiker - Another comic version.

Illustrierte Klassiker - or Classics Illustrated - was a series of comic books aimed to bring the great classics of literature closer to children throu the medium of comic. Here is their try with Alice in Wonderland. I say try since this comic isn´t really good...

 It was first published in the 1950s or even 1940. I don´t know who the artist was, it is nowhere told in the book. Quite possible that he was some no name illustrator, who didn´t really care about it as long as he gets his money, or its a great name in comics who didn´t care since its just for children and children are idiots anyway. Or its just that the comic really hasn´t aged that well in the last 50+ years. I really don´t know.

In the hall of doors. The perspectives look quite odd here. This has got to be one of the most boringly designed Hall of doors I have ever seen. Also, why is the "Drink Me" bottle an amphora?

 Alice just is tiny from one page to the next, no process whatsoever. Also compare her size to the leg of the tabe in the different panels. Its really inconsequent. A good sign that the artist didn´t give a damn.

Again no process, Alice is just huge from one page to the next. Whats wrong with her feet? That crappily drawn puddle is never deep enough that she can sink into it down to her ankles! And again we have very weird looking perspectives.

I just love how the artist just drew crappy doodles in the middle of the page, you need chutzpa to pull off such a waste of space, especially when you are payed by pages. At least we see SOME process in this page...

And were done withn this scene. Note that the puddle appearantly shrank with Alice.

I like the rustic look of the white rabbits house. But compare the bottles in the first and the second panel. A wine bottle turns into a moonshine jug? Awfull. Her growth looks okay here thou...

I have no idea what kind of animal Pat is supposed to be. A rat? a vole? A mongoose? Your guess is as good as mine.

How, just how is she supposed to kick up the chimney in that position? She seems to have lost her socks too in that panel.

And she shrinks small again. the interior of the rabbits house is horribly inconsitant.

What really irks me is how rushed some parts of the comic feel. How are you going to interest kids for great books when you rush important parts? Alice encounter with the puppy is just one panel here, her encounter with the caterpillar (which is an entire bloody chapter in the book) is here merely 4 panels long! I mean really!

Who ever made the colours, he has never seen a pidgedon before.

Passing the hall of doors again, again she shrinks between panels.

Alice in the court room: I don´t really get why the bench looks completely different in the last panel.

I think at this point the artist has given up. He doesn´t care about perspective anymore, he doesn´t even bother drawing backgrounds. He is just randomly posing characters in the panels. Note how the kind is sitting on the throne all the time and in the last panel standing about somewhere in space. And alice is poking her head in, so that we don´t forget who the main character is.

Why is the griffon in the first panel sitting in the knave of hearts hat? And what is going on in the last panel? Are the king, the queen and the knave (who is now unexplainable on the other side of the courtroom falling asleep? Thank god I´m through with this comic. Its really, really bad. I don´t wnow why I bouzght it back then, possibly just to have it in my collection. At least its from a limited edition (no. 345 of 666).