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"It’s an idea I’ve been playing around with for years. Alice in Wonderland was the first novel I ever read on my own as a child. I was in love with the odd characters, the bizarre songs and the puzzle-like wordplay. Then I listened to the audiobook once day while inking and thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown. I was an anxious mess trying to concentrate on work while listening the nonsense that used to make that book so appealing as a child.
Then we had our first kid. You can’t avoid shows like Dora The Explorer and your house becomes filled with dozens and dozens of pictures. The more I took in some of these kids books and shows, I Hate Fairyland started to come to life. I started wondering why Dora wasn’t driven absolutely nuts by that map and his two minute song consisting of only I’m The Map! I wondered why Sam I am didn’t strangle the annoying guy that insisted over and over that the eggs were clearly green and rotten.
So I though it would be fun to see what a character was like if they got all the things we think we want. To never physically age, to eat nothing but sweets and never gain weight, and live in a carefree world of whimsy with no responsibilities. It’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Then I thought, what happens if a character as mad as that had a big ass battle axe?"

- Skottie Young


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