Daniel Clowes
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| Title | : | Ghost World |
| Author | : | Daniel Clowes |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 80 pages |
| Published | : | April 2001 by Fantagraphics (first published March 1998) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Fiction. Graphic Novels Comics. Young Adult. Comic Book. Coming Of Age |
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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.Details Books In Pursuance Of Ghost World
| Original Title: | Ghost World |
| ISBN: | 1560974273 (ISBN13: 9781560974277) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Enid Coleslaw, Rebecca Doppelmeyer |
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Ratings: 3.83 From 64542 Users | 2304 ReviewsAssess Of Books Ghost World
There was just something about this that made me feel icky the entire time I was reading it.Do you remember Daria (I wish I was watching that instead), well this is basically Sick Sad World the comic... but not really, lot of subtext under all of that early 90s stuff.
Don't hate me, Jayme! I liked it but didn't love it.Two best friends since childhood fight but are inseparable sometime after high school but before college/work/life. They have no plans for the future, so they wallow in their silly lives, pushing around everyone around them. Really, they are flailing in that teenage angsty way.Clowes captures the Essence of Hipster Friendship*. Everybody sucks, everything is lame - but if it's extremely lame, then it becomes cool again. It's up to each hipster
6/27/17 Reread for my YA GN/Comics summer class, discussed with clips from the movie, which more and more seems like a light rom-com version of the much deeper and richer (and grittier, nastier) book. One dimension of this book that seems clearer to me in this reading is that one of the things they are struggling with in this summer after high school graduation is sexuality, including some Q (of the GLTQ) moments. Who are they, and who do they want to become? Enid may be going to college;
I could easily see myself depicted in a panel in this lovely graphic novel, with its snarky young teen heroine Enid reading my review of it and saying something like: "I mean, what kind of loser dork has the time to write a *review* of a 20-year-old graphic novel. Probably some middle-age loser living in his mom's basement."Actually, I have written Goodreads reviews in my mom's basement. So, touche' Enid.But I am writing this one in my own home, the double-mortgaged one. So, sweet Enid, allow
american representations of adolescents and post-adolescents in films and books have always left me cold, if not alienated. why do i have so little in common with these kids? why was my life and the lives of the italian teens i currently know and follow so vastly different? i blame american culture of violence and vice (for lack of a better world), kids' need to find themselves in drunkenness and drugs, when we had... what? what did we have? what do the italian kids i know have? i think we had,
This is one GREAT companion piece to the motion picture. Sure, this one started it all but it is interesting to see where the screenwriter's words maintained such a close fidelity to Clowes's vision; keeping the same spirit of the book in the movie is a wonder to behold. While the film seems incredibly depressing at times, the comic manages to make you feel that there is no sadness in the Ghost World world, only wackiness and teenage girl banter, um "Daria meets Pulp Fiction." There was one
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