Ghost World
by Daniel Clowes
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Author: Daniel ClowesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-06
ISBN: 1560972998
Number of pages: 80
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
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Book Review: Between This World and the Next
Summary: 5 Stars
For those who don't read comics because of the juvenile annotations, this will be a wonderful introduction to one of the most poignant minds working today. With GHOST WORLD, Daniel Clowes has followed in the footsteps of the Hernandez brothers' LOVE AND ROCKETS, by portraying the world of American youth in remarkably sympathetic terms. In contrast to the endlessly evolving world proposed by Los Bros Hernandez, the setting of GHOST WORLD is all to stagnant and finite. The denizens of GHOST WORLD are lead by Enid and Rebecca who during the coarse of the novel watch ever-synically as their Kingdom of Youth crumbles in the aftermath of adulthood. This maturation of the characters is ironically paired with Clowes' maturation as an artist(Currently, Eightball consists entirely of the in depth epic of David Boring, an excellent follow-up for the GHOST WORLD reader). Daniel Clowes has an ability to find an intimacy with his reader that raises the medium of comic books to a new forum where audience may come slightly closer to penetrating the fourth wall and making contact with the mind behind it. GHOST WORLD stands as evidence.
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1998 Ignatz Award Winner, Outstanding Graphic Novel: The inspiration for the feature film and one of the most acclaimed graphic novels ever.
Ghost World has become a cultural and generational touchstone, and continues to enthrall and inspire readers over a decade after its original release as a graphic novel. Originally serialized in the pages of the seminal comic book Eightball throughout the mid-1990s, this quasi-autobiographical story (the name of one of the protagonists is famously an anagram of the author's name) follows the adventures of two teenage girls, Enid and Becky, two best friends facing the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, apart. Daniel Clowes is one of the most respected cartoonists of his generation, and Ghost World is his magnum opus. Adapted into a major motion picture directed by Terry Zwigoff (director of the acclaimed documentary Crumb), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. This graphic novel is a must for any self-respecting comics fan's library. Two-color comics throughoutDan Clowes described the story in Ghost World as the examination of "the lives of two recent high school graduates from the advantaged perch of a constant and (mostly) undetectable eavesdropper, with the shaky detachment of a scientist who has grown fond of the prize microbes in his petri dish." From this perch comes a revelation about adolescence that is both subtle and coolly beautiful. Critics have pointed out Clowes's cynicism and vicious social commentary, but if you concentrate on those aspects, you'll miss the exquisite whole that Clowes has captured. Each chapter ends with melancholia that builds towards the amazing, detached, ghostlike ending.
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