With all the anticipatory hoopla on Tim Burton's Alice about, here's a perfectly-timed glimpse back into the devious, delirious animated Wonderland, Soviet style. READ ME!

Thirty years after Alice's colorful, light-hearted Disneyfication, a Soviet animation studio in Kiev birthed Alice in Wonderland (1981) and Alice Through the Looking Glass (1982)—shape-shifting and color-swirling, comparably creepy thirty minute cartoons. Alice's most psychedelic and schizoid incarnation—a witty, pouty lash-batter with fringed dark locks that float and change hue—bounces her way over bleeding watercolor landscapes, minimalist backgrounds and stretching and sinking sets.

Unlike most other Alices, all lovely and sugar-sweet and just a little spoiled, the Soviet Alice is acidic, stubborn, bitchy and very welcoming to any and all hallucinations Wonderland has to offer, conjured up in a surrealist frolic by the Soviet animators. So what that the Mad Hatter is more of a depressed drunkard?

Tim Burton's CGI-dampened awesomeness as a multi-million addition to the 3D franchise isn't competing in the same weight category, but the vintage cartoon would be a fierce rival. Here's a little treat for the Carol connoisseurs and the casually curious alike... enjoy!

Alice in Wonderland, Part 1:

Alice in Wonderland, Part 2:

Alice In Wonderland, Part 3:

Alice Through the Looking Glass, Part 1:

Alice Through the Looking Glass, Part 2:

Alice Through the Looking Glass, Part 3:

[RUSSIA!'s limited limited-edition print, an illustration for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", where Wonderland is a certain very recognizable city]