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25 mm 226 mm 23 mm 226 mm 25 mm 25 mm EWIS CARROLL stars in a comic book story! Alice becomes Archie, Lucy, LL and Pogo? The Cheshire Cat becomes Snoopy? The March Hare becomes… Bugs Bunny? And the cast of Wonderland meets the Man of Steel?! Only in Alice in Comicland! in Some of the greatest cartoonists tumble down the rabbit hole for their own unique looks at Lewis Carroll’s famous creation! Walt Kelly, Charles Schulz, Alex IN Toth, Dan DeCarlo, George Carlson, MAD-men Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, and Dave Berg, the Simon and Kirby Shop, the Walt Disney Studios, Yellow Kid creator R. F. Outcault, and many more visit Wonderland and draw home to tell IN about it! You’ll be astonished to see Alice starring in gruesome tales in the banned horror in comics of the 1950s, in a romance comic, riding on a flying saucer, meeting Santa Craig Yoe Claus, as a teeny-bopper, going to the weird Monkey Island, looking like Alfred E. Introduction by Neuman, selling out to shill bread... and even having a sex change—TWICE! Mark Burstein President of the Lewis Carroll Society ALICE IN COMICLAND of North America The fascinating comics, the rare original art, a special introduction by Mark YOE BOOKS/IDW Burstein, president of The Lewis Carroll Society of North America, and a revealing foreword by the award-winning comics historian Craig Yoe make this book truly a wonder! Alice in Comicland will leave you grinning like the Cheshire Cat! 287 mm 337 mm Yoe & Yoe Burstein ® Visit YoeBooks.com ® ISBN: 978-1-61377-913-2 idwpublishing.com $29.99 US ® Charles Schulz • Alex Toth • Harvey Kurtzman Walt Kelly • Dan DeCarlo • Dave Berg Jack Davis • George Carlson • and more! 25 mm 525 mm IN in Craig Yoe Introduction by Mark Burstein President of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America ® IDW PUBLISHING SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA Ta-da! Dedicated to my friend Ted Adams who conceived the idea of this book! If you like this book, please blog; post on Facebook, Tumblr, Amazon, and Goodreads; podcast; and tweet about it! Visit the International Team of Comics Historians blog www.TheITCHblog.com. Become a fan of YOE Books on Facebook! Friend Craig Yoe on Facebook! Visit YouTube.com/TheYoeTube Deep thanks to Mark Burstein and the Lewis Carroll Society of North characters’ names and likenesses are the exclusive trademarks of Archie America for all their ideas, help, and support. Visit them at Comic Publications, Inc. ARCHIE characters created by John L. Goldwater. www.LewisCarroll.org. The likenesses of the original Archie characters were created by Bob Montana. Archie in Wonderland was previously published in Mad House Gratitude to Giovanna Anzaldi, who scanned and restored many of the and copyrighted by Archie Comic Publications, Inc. in magazine form in materials in this book, Andrew Ogus, and David Schaefer; our proofreaders 1960. This comic can not be reprinted in whole or part without written Mark Lerer, Peter Sanderson, Robert Schaad, and Steven Thompson; permission from Archie Comics Publications, Inc. lenders of art Alan Kaplan, Frank Pauer, Bud Plant, Alan Tannenbaum, and Doug Wheeler; art experts Mark Arnold, Jerry Beck, Tillmann Courth, “Alice in Wonderland!” from Mad #18, December 1954, is © William M. Jim Engel, Steven Rowe, Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., and Richard West. Gaines Agent, Inc. Reprinted with permission. Our heartfelt gratitude to Scott Daley and OGPI, Nina Fairles, From Superman #41 © DC Comics. Used with Permission. Greg Goldstein, Jon Goldwater, Victor Gorelick, Heritage Auctions, The illustration by Walt Kelly on the title page and this page are Corry Kanzenberg, and Jean F. Schulz. reproduced from the original art in the collection of Mark Burstein. Under the direction of Joe Woos, the esteemed ToonSeum in Pittsburgh is “Imagine” © 2014 Mark Burstein. preparing an exhibit based on this book. 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UCLICK. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. Printed in Korea. Peanuts Cheshire Beagle 1973 drawing © 2014 Peanuts Worldwide LLC. IDW Publishing does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, Archie in Wonderland TM & © 2014 Archie Comic Publications, Inc. All stories, or artwork. rights reserved. Used with kind permission. The individual ARCHIE Contents 9 73 141 IMAGINE! SUPERMAN: A MODERN THROUGH THE LOOKING Mark Burstein ALICE IN WONDERLAND! GLASS! Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster Stephen Kirkel 17 WONDER! 86 147 Craig Yoe ALICE IN TERRORLAND ARCHIE IN WONDERLAND Alex Toth Dan DeCarlo 22 ALICE IN CARTOONLAND 91 151 K.L. Roberts ALEC IN FUMBLELAND ALICE IN FLYING SAUCERS George Carlson Dave Berg 25 ALICE IN FUNNYLAND 97 156 GLORY LITTLE MAX MEETS ALICE Walt Kelly IN WONDERLAND 33 Artist Unknown ALICE COVER GIRL! 103 164 41 MOTHER’S GOOSEBERRY ALICE IN WONDERLAND! LEWIS CARROLL RINDS Harvey Kurtzman & Artist Unknown Walt Kelly Jack Davis 44 ALICE THROUGH THE 109 ALICE ON MONKEY ISLAND LOOKING-GLASS Serge S. Sabarsky & Artist Unknown George O. Muhlfield Imagine! et us imagine two pieces side by side. The first is replace or greatly enhance the narrative and descriptions Lewis Carroll’s handwritten and self-illustrated of the text, the medium itself is often looked down upon by 9 manuscript of Alice’s Adventures under Ground the soi-disant intelligentsia, yet is guaranteed to outlast that he presented to his “infant patron,” Miss their effete ramblings by many millennia. Alice Liddell, in November of 1864, which later Lwas reworked, expanded, and professionally illustrated to become Given the intense similarities of the worlds of the Alice books and the classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The second is the the comic or cartoon media, that this paragraph applies equally first issue ofPogo comics by Walt Kelly, published in 1942. to both should not be surprising. Carroll (Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was very much alive during the time of the development Behold here a work of art, written and illustrated by the of proto-comics, and can himself be considered a progenitor. same person, a product of acknowledged genius aimed Comics—like another art form flowering in America in the somewhere between the child and the child within, an early years of the twentieth century, jazz music—are colorful, Æsopian fairy tale set in a magical realm where a youth wide-ranging, and slightly seditious. The genres range from the wanders amidst animals that can talk. Here the illustra- swing of Dixieland and Peanuts through the conventional stylings tions and the text are intentionally and inextricably in- of Marsalis and Marvel to the revolutionary avant-garde of Miles tertwined; simple enough for a child to read, yet capable Davis or Robert Crumb. Both media are capable of crossovers, of great profundities and subversive paradigms; innocent mixings, and adaptations of classics. And, unlike Athena, emerg- and fragile-looking, but canny, deep, and enormously pop- ing full-blown from the forehead of Zeus, both media are strongly ular. Mixing images and dialog with flights of fancy, verse, rooted