"Alice in Leatherland"
Cover A by Elisa Romboli - Cover B by Iolanda Zanfardino
"Alice in Leatherland" is a five-issues comic miniseries by IOLANDA ZANFARDINO (Writer) and ELISA ROMBOLI (Artist). That's a fun and proudly queer and body positive romantic comedy.
Publisher: Black Mask Studios
SYNOPSIS:
Alice, a young writer of children's story books, is hurtled out of her fairytale-like life when she discovers her girlfriend has been cheating on her! Charmingly defiant, she leaves her small forest town and leaps into a new adventure to seek love (and find herself) in the fast life of San Francisco. There, her concept of pure, magical love will be completely overturned--but her biggest challenge won't be reckoning with other people's s3xual drive, it'll be getting a grip on her own!
From your new favorite writer and artist team of Iolanda Zanfardino and Elisa Romboli, Alice In Leatherland is a comedy about s3x and so, inevitably, about every other aspect of life, too. As Iolanda and Elisa describe the book: “S3x is recounted as a way to investigate our relationship with ourselves and others, with our bodies and our place in the world; s3xual pleasure as self-affirmation and growth. There is room for Love, too, and bravery. And for many good laughs, that never hurts.”
REVIEWS:
Publisher: Black Mask Studios
SYNOPSIS:
Alice, a young writer of children's story books, is hurtled out of her fairytale-like life when she discovers her girlfriend has been cheating on her! Charmingly defiant, she leaves her small forest town and leaps into a new adventure to seek love (and find herself) in the fast life of San Francisco. There, her concept of pure, magical love will be completely overturned--but her biggest challenge won't be reckoning with other people's s3xual drive, it'll be getting a grip on her own!
From your new favorite writer and artist team of Iolanda Zanfardino and Elisa Romboli, Alice In Leatherland is a comedy about s3x and so, inevitably, about every other aspect of life, too. As Iolanda and Elisa describe the book: “S3x is recounted as a way to investigate our relationship with ourselves and others, with our bodies and our place in the world; s3xual pleasure as self-affirmation and growth. There is room for Love, too, and bravery. And for many good laughs, that never hurts.”
REVIEWS:
"Meet Alice, a writer of children’s books with a huge heart … that is absolutely crushed when she discovers her girlfriend is cheating. The crisis inspires her to seek a new life, and perhaps a new love, in San Francisco. This romantic comedy, written by Iolanda Zanfardino and Elisa Romboli, who are a couple, is most assuredly for adults: The story depicts — sometimes with little left to the imagination — the ups and downs of casual s3x. One conceit of the five-issue story, which wraps up in August, is that each chapter includes scenes of a fairy tale by Alice, about a firefly who is seeking a mate."
– George Gene Gustines, The New York Times
"This book celebrates love, lust, and growth without being afraid to laugh."
– Theo Kogod, Comic Book Resources
"That’s the San Francisco captured in Alice in Leatherland, a story grounded in reality inasmuch as the magic to be found is either imaginary or deeply horny."
– Matt Baume, The Stranger
"Alice in Leatherland is an unabashedly queer, diverse, and k1nky comic."
– Louis Skye, Women Write About Comics
"A romance story that isn’t afraid to get messy and real about relationships while riffing off traditional fairy tale tropes."
– Logan Dalton, Graphic Policy
"Honestly, my only complaint is that I was annoyed when I ran out of pages to read."
– Zachary Whittaker, Bigger Than Capes
"Alice in Leatherland is everything you'd want from a romance tale. Adorable, funny, insightful and just friggin gorgeously drawn. I hope this is just one of many such books from this creative team because my wallet is ready! Seriously! Buy this book!"
– Stjepan Sejic (Sunstone)
“YOU SHOULD READ IT. S3xy, fun as hell and interesting.”
– Mirka Andolfo (Unnatural, Sweet Paprika)
Sample Pages:
"Alice in Leatherland" on The New York Times' Art section for Pride month 2021:
