MirrorWalker was the first comic book ever to combine cartoons with special effects photography throughout the issue. The concept and the main character, Alan Nonsense, were created by Barry Daniel Petersen who approached Chicago-based, award winning photographer Erich Schrempp to give the production the unique graphic edge he was looking for.

The name Alan Nonsense was a tribute to the Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...

 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures...

: Al - in - Nonsense. Like Alice, Alan was able to walk through mirrors into different realities.

The concept was originally sold to NOW Comics

NOW Comics

NOW Comics was a comic book publisher founded in late 1985 by Tony C. Caputo as a sole-proprietorship. During the four years after its founding, NOW grew from a one-man operation to operating in 12 countries, and published almost 1,000 comics books....

 and a script was generated by fan-favorite Marv Wolfman

Marv Wolfman

Marvin A. "Marv" Wolfman is an award-winning American comic book writer. He is best known for lengthy runs on The Tomb of Dracula, creating Blade for Marvel Comics, and The New Teen Titans for DC Comics.-1960s:...

who joined Petersen and Schrempp to create the comic book as published by NOW in 1990.