Cheshire Crossing is a fantasy webcomic written and originally illustrated by Andy Weir from 2006 to 2008, and later re-illustrated by Sarah Andersen for Tapas from 2017 to 2019.

The story, taking place in the early 1900s, takes characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and Peter Pan, and follows Alice Liddell, Dorothy Gale, and Wendy Darling after they are united at "Cheshire Crossing" by the mysterious Dr. Ernest Rutherford and Miss Mary Poppins (renamed Miss Poole in some versions)[nb 1] to study their abilities to travel between worlds before facing the combined forces of the reconstituted Wicked Witch of the West and Captain Hook.

Wendy Darling, Dorothy Gale, and Alice Liddell are all teenagers who have been diagnosed with "dissociative psychosis" following their respective travels to other worlds.

[5] Their adventures continue between Earth, Neverland, Wonderland, and Oz, dealing with the Wicked Witch of the West and Captain Hook, who team up both for villainy and love.

[5][8][6][10] Many other characters from the original works appear, including the Cheshire Cat, the Knave of Hearts, The Mad Hatter, Tinkerbell, Munchkins, flying monkeys, and Peter Pan, who ages up during the story and obsesses over Alice.

Six years later, Alice is brought to the apparent mental institution "Cheshire Crossing" by Mary Poppins,[nb 1] where she meets Wendy Darling and is told to await a third girl.

After prompting, Alice reveals she can travel to Wonderland via any reflective surface, most commonly mirrors, while Wendy states Neverland is located at "the second star to the right".

After returning Dorothy's slippers, Alice uses a shrinking potion she acquired from Wonderland to sneak past the Winkies,[nb 3] West's personal guards, then grows again with a magic cake and opens the castle's door from the inside.

As Poppins battles West, the Cheshire Cat frees Wendy and she saves Alice and Dorothy from King Nikko of the flying monkeys.

After informing Alice and Dorothy of the situation, they agree to join her in rescuing them, and Tink provides the pair with fairy dust to allow them to fly like Wendy, powered by "happy thoughts".

The next day, Alice wakes in Wonderland to find Peter, having been eating the size-altering berries of Tumtum Forest, to have physically grown up.

As Peter continues discussing his "weird feelings" with Alice, he remarks that he sees Wendy as his mother, as she had agreed to raise him and his friends.

Hook, however, advises West not to do so given "beating prisoners is bad form", and so that she can serve as "alive and kicking" bait for a trap for Wendy and Alice.

To repay her, King Scarecrow and Tik-Tok (the two smartest people in Oz) agree to teach Dorothy to be smart and "view every problem from every angle".

Meanwhile, in Wonderland, Peter and Alice face the Red Bishop, keeper of the Vorpal Sword, who offers to give it to them if they can solve his riddle.

At Cheshire Crossing, Poppins discovers the girls are gone, and ascertains their current location as Oz after consulting "the spirits of naughty children", proceeds there through a drawing of Castle West given to her by Dorothy (inferring they had already known each other prior to Alice's and Wendy's arrival).

Alice awakens on the ship, and, picking up the Vorpal Sword, breaks open the orb containing the fairies, engulfing West in fire.

[18] Weir said in an interview that while publishing Cheshire Crossing as a webcomic allowed him total control over the creative process, he still took feedback from his fanbase.

"[18] The poor reception of the comic, Weir’s difficulties with drawing, and the criticism of his artwork led him to end Cheshire Crossing after the first story arc of four issues.

[22] The Andersen-illustrated comic was then published as a stand-alone graphic novel in July 2019 by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Random House.

[citation needed] In the published graphic novel's foreword, Weir expressed interest in collaborating further with Andersen on the script in addition to her serving as illustrator in potentially developing sequels to Cheshire Crossing.

He said that stories about kids coming back from magical adventures and then growing up in the real world was not a new theme, and that the writing was not the best that Andy Weir has done, with many unanswered questions and plot holes.

He praised Sarah Andersen's artwork as being more detailed than her webcomic work, "and although still not perfect, it was just right for some truly weird moments in the story, which bounces from one world to another at a dizzying pace."

[11] Publishers Weekly's review was more mixed, saying: "Andersen’s large-eyed characters are reminiscent of manga and scenes convey the crux of each world, but Captain Hook is portrayed as the lone protagonist of color, and the story retains stereotypical images of Native Americans in Neverland.

"[5] The Children's Book and Media Review, run by the Harold B. Lee Library, calls the novel "a complete departure from Andy Weir’s Martian and Artemis" and says "his masterful crafting of plot did not quite translate into this work.

However it adds that "seeing these characters as older, edgier versions of themselves in graphic novel format and romping through their fantasy worlds is still a lot of fun.

The artwork is suitable for a younger audience, however, the dialogue does include coarse language so please exercise discretion if you choose to read this graphic novel.

She disliked the aging up of Peter Pan into a horny teenager, and advised against buying it for kids, saying "it’s inappropriate, with unsuitably adult topics (what with all the violence and sex jokes), thoroughly unpleasant, and overall, a muddled mess.

It was produced by Nick Martorelli and performed by an ensemble cast including Rebecca Soler, Lisa Flanagan, James Monroe Iglehart and Pete Bradbury.

[24][4]On November 15, 2019, Amblin Partners was announced to be developing a film adaptation, to be produced by Michael De Luca and written by Erin Cressida Wilson.