Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published: 20/07/2000
ISBN: 9780224060882
Length: 80 Pages
Dimensions: 260mm x 8mm x 170mm
Weight: 243g
RRP: £10.99
Ghost World is the story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood, and the uncertain future of their complicated relationship. Clowes conjures a balanced semblance, both tender and objective, of their fragile existence, capturing the mundane thrills and hourly tragedies of a waning adolescence, as he follows a tenuous narrative thread through the fragmented lives of these two fully realised young women.
Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published: 20/07/2000
ISBN: 9780224060882
Length: 80 Pages
Dimensions: 260mm x 8mm x 170mm
Weight: 243g
RRP: £10.99
For once in a comic story, people are portrayed as they really talk and act. Clowes' pitch is uncannily accurate
A hilarious, melancholy graphic novel
Clowes' remarkable Ghost World might some day become a primer for the next generation of comics writers and artists... Masterfull
Clowes spells out the realities of teenage angst as powerfully and authentically as Salinger did in Catcher in the Rye for an earlier generation
If ever there was a comic book story meant to be examined by non-comics fans, it's this, a classic in any medium