About this title: 1998 Ignatz Award Winner, Outstanding Graphic Novel: The inspiration for the feature film and one of the most acclaimed graphic novels ever, following the adventures of two teenage girls, Enid and Becky, best friends facing the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, apart.
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Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. NEAR FINE condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 80 pp. Contains: Illustrations. Front tail corner creased, else FINE. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781560974277ISBN:1560974273
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Date Published: 2001-05-01
ISBN-13:9781560974277ISBN:1560974273
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781560974277ISBN:1560974273
Description: Acceptable. DOES NOT OBSCURE TEXT, PAGES SLIGHTLY WAVY, SLIGHT DISCOLORATION ON EDGE OF BOOK, THIS BOOK IS ROUGH. IT IS OK FOR PERSONAL USE IF YOU WANT TO SAVE SOME MONEY BUT DO NOT GIVE AS A GIFT. Good reading copy. read more
Edition: 4th edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781560974277ISBN:1560974273
Description: New. 1998 Ignatz Award Winner, Outstanding Graphic Novel: The inspiration for the feature film and one of the most acclaimed graphic novels ever, following the adventures of two teenage girls, Enid and Becky, best friends facing the prospect of growing up... read more
"To say I was underwhelmed by Ghost World, at first, would be an understatment. No. No. I didn't even want to keep reading. I read the first 5 pages and was bored. But I finally picked it back up a month later, with renewed vigor, and actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Maybe it's because I see myself in the characters. I think I'm better than everyone. To the point of being mean and entitled. But there is always the sad truth of growing up. It isn't easy. Other people sometimes have it better. We grow in and out of friendships, and repeat the cycle. We fall in love, but don't know how to say it, etc. Clowes is very good at dealing with the angst and anger of these young characters, and I think that's why I connected with it."
"Rereading this for at least the second time is like revisiting an old friend. It's not that it necessarily gets better with age. Instead, it simply reminds one of how Clowes was able to take a very simple story - two friends that are forced to grow up a little over the summer after high school and before life really begins - and create his own quirky and signature magic.
Enid is still the wise-cracking quasi-goth/hipster wannabee, and Becky is still frozen in time as her plain Jane girl-next-door best friend. Floating in and out of their lives are the rumored Satanists (who stock up on Lunchables at the grocery store), geeky Melorra, their milquetoast friend and pseudo-crush Josh, among the other oddballs that meander into their lives.
Although the Ghost World movie was a brilliant riff on Clowes' graphic novel - so many of the finer details make their way into the film -- the original still holds up after more than a decade in print. Irreverent, snarky, and jaded, it is still the defining work of one of America's premiere slice-of-life comic book artists. Clowes can cut it like no other."
"I read it long before this book was listed by my modern literature teacher. Some people might said this is just a normal coming-of-age story, I'd say 'yeah, part of it' because most coming-of-age stories fail to do is to haunting you for long time. Ghost World really could do that. I don't know why it could, but I guess it is because of the cynicism in it and the striking ending of Enid's decision to throw it all. I think there are two kinds of reaction from the readers: either they love it or hate it. Why they love it I think it's the same reason I've describe previously. As for why they hate it, I think it is because it gives them sort of a too good and too bad reaction mixed with the oh-so-true that make them feeling hard to decision whether they should embrass or deny it."
"It's impossible that these weren't girls he knew, yet i think he made them up. They are so transparent, so 'high school', it breaches a fourth wall of fiction and you see right through, him; This is just stuff that happened to you, right?! That's the talent. The intellectual phrasings these girls use (at a Dinosaur miniature golf-course, "I remember this being so much bigger...Oh my God! I'm having a pseudo-religious experience right now.") Clowes doesn't skip out on minor details, he shows them precisely--the exact lyrics, the pictures of Enid's step-mom, the objects being looked at in moments of awkward silence. He has majestic observational detail. Transparency is key, hence Ghost World. It would be autobiography if it wasn't girls. But he knocks it dead, the inherent sadness to all their confidence--what an ulcer!, even to remember being smarmy at 18. Plus there is the avid absurdity, like the woman who sits at a window announcing to passer-bys what celebrities they look like.
An alternate body from the movie. Either one suffices the need to feel hollow and familiar at once!"
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