Skip to content

Cheshire Crossing

Cheshire Crossing

By&
FantasyGraphic Novels
Pages
128
Published
2019
Language
English

Synopsis

Years after their journeys to other worlds, Alice, Wendy, and Dorothy are sent to Cheshire Crossing, a boarding school for girls whose ‘delusions’ about Wonderland, Neverland, and Oz are anything but. Each can cross between realities, and the school exists to study and contain that power. When old enemies — including the Wicked Witch of the West — recognize what these girls can do, the three are pulled into a fight that spills across all their worlds at once. Originally a webcomic Weir wrote and drew between 2006 and 2008 and later reimagined with artist Sarah Andersen, the graphic novel runs at a breakneck pace, treating the classic heroines as capable young women rather than passive visitors.

Prose complexity
2/10

Vibe

AdventurousWhimsicalFunnyLighthearted
Portal FantasyFound FamilyQuestAcademy

Genres

Fantasy Graphic Novels YA Fantasy Comics

Authors

A
Andy Weir

Born in 1972 in Davis, California and raised in Livermore, Andy Weir is the son of a Lawrence Livermore physicist and an electrical engineer. He began working as a programmer at fifteen for Sandia National Laboratories, studied computer science at UC San Diego without graduating, and spent roughly twenty-five years as a software engineer at companies including AOL, Palm, MobileIron, and Blizzard, where he worked on Warcraft II. He wrote science fiction as a hobby for years, publishing free on hi...

S
Sarah Andersen

Sarah Andersen is a cartoonist and illustrator best known for her Sarah's Scribbles collections, such as Big Mushy Happy Lump. She also created the supernatural romance Fangs and illustrated the graphic novel Cheshire Crossing. Her work focuses on the humor found in social anxiety and the everyday struggles of adulthood.

Characters

Alice LiddellProtagonist

Returned from Wonderland, one of three girls who can cross between worlds.

Wendy DarlingProtagonist

Returned from Neverland, among the world-crossing trio at the school.

Dorothy GaleProtagonist

Returned from Oz, among the world-crossing trio at the school.

The Wicked Witch of the WestAntagonist

An old enemy from Oz who menaces the girls across worlds.

Captain HookAntagonist

The Neverland villain drawn into the cross-world conflict.

All characters in Cheshire Crossing

Frequently asked questions

  • Did Andy Weir write Cheshire Crossing before The Martian?

    Yes. He wrote and drew it as a webcomic between 2006 and 2008, years before The Martian made him famous.

  • Who illustrated the 2019 graphic novel?

    Sarah Andersen, creator of Sarah’s Scribbles, re-illustrated the story for the graphic novel published by Ten Speed Press in 2019.

  • Which classic stories does it cross over?

    It brings together the heroines of Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and The Wizard of Oz — Alice, Wendy, and Dorothy — along with villains from their worlds.

  • Is it connected to Weir’s science fiction?

    No. It began as fan fiction and is a fantasy crossover, unrelated to his hard-SF novels.