Alice!

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author= Michael McKay-Fleming
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"Alice", also known as "Alice!", is a webcomic by Michael McKay-Fleming currently updated on a Monday-Friday schedule. It is (almost) completely comedy, and is composed of a mix of gag strips and short story arcs, mostly the latter. "Alice" combines fantasy sequences with real-life situations in a manner reminiscent of Calvin and Hobbes without nearly as much social commentary. After coloring the occasional strip for most of its run and switching to very large, full-colour ones for a while, Michael is now delivering the comic in a conventional black-and-white, four-panel newspaper format. The art style has remained fairly static for several years, but also high in quality.

The strip was in hiatus for about a year, until it was relaunched in March 7, 2005. The strips of July 4-7, 2006, are described as "the last four strips of this incarnation of Alice. I will return with new stories in both pdf and web based comics."

Alice is a member of Keenspot.

Characters

The core of the comic is formed by a trio of Canadian preteens/early teenagers. They all moved from grade seven to grade eight at the relaunch, which, save the appearance of breasts, has had little consequence.

* Alice Dobson - The eponymous main character, Alice is a cheerful and active redhead girl with an imagination the size of Montana that leaves little room for a grip on reality. She initiates and dominates the many and varied fantasy sequences and is a majority supplier of mayhem, and also by far the least boy-crazy of the lot. Aka Amazing Girl, aka leader of the Star Amazons, aka the Dragon Slayer, aka...
* Dorothy "Dot" Robert Carroll - A strong-willed and realistic straight man to Alice, Dot is in many ways a contradictory character. She has a strong friendship with Alice and serves as a voice of reason that is seldom listened to. Constantly featured in Alice's imaginings and as often irritated by them, there is some evidence that her resistance is at least partially a facade. Dot grew up with three older brothers, and consequently has been known to hogtie bullies with their own braids when pushed.
*Joanne Kovanchuk - "Hor"-mones. The third girl of the trio was a somewhat later addition and is going into puberty with a gung-ho attitude. A budding man-eater, all signs say that she would've ended up as yet another popular gossiper were it not for her association with the other two. Joanne enjoys Alice's flights of fancy more than Dot claims to, but is seldom included in them. She should not be trusted with anything stereotypically associated with teenagers.

pinoff

L'il Alice

L'il Alice is a weekly spin-off comic to Alice! that is only available to subscribers of Keenspot Premium. It is written by McKay-Fleming, author of the original Alice, while Tariq De Vore does the artwork. It is set before Alice!, following Alice in her younger years.

Alice: The Summer Years

Alice: The Summer Years is a spin-off comic to Alice! that has yet to be published. It covers the life of Alice, Dot and Joanne as they leave home for the first time. Unlike the other two Alice comics, it has a rating of PG.

Books

* "Alice: Forsooth! Methinks yon Lass hath a Screw Loose" by Michael McKay-Fleming. ISBN 1929462271

External links

* [http://www.alicecomics.com "Alice!"]