Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, the owners of the Peter Pan property through 2008, aren’t happy about the upcoming Lost Girls collection from Top Shelf:
The hospital — which was bequeathed the rights to the Peter Pan books by their author, J. M. Barrie — said that the creators of the comic book must obtain its permission before publication. The Lost Girls, which shows Wendy in erotic trysts and being observed by paedophiles, is the latest work by Alan Moore, the British graphic novelist behind V for Vendetta.
He said that his novel was inspired by Peter Pan but he would not seek permission to use the Wendy character. “I don’t see that you can ban anything in this day and age,” he said. “It wasn’t our intention to try to provoke a ban.”
Related: Alan Moore, Rich Johnston talk to the BBC (audio file, via Comic Reporter)
Also related: Neil Gaiman talks about Lost Girls
June 23rd, 2006 at 10:43 am
For a book that will do good to sell high five figures, and which will keep the CBLDF busy for several years, this thing is getting a LOT of pub.
June 23rd, 2006 at 10:43 am
…make that high FOUR figures, not five. We’re talking thousands, not tens of thousands.