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.
"Ranked #6 of The 20 Best Graphic Novels of the Decade (2009)."
― Paste Magazine
"Ghost World gets better every time I read it, and I’ve read it hundreds of times. It still frightens me a little how well Daniel Clowes managed to nail the teen-girl brain."
― Alexandra Molotkow, The Hairpin
"Ranked #10 of "The 25 Greatest Gen X Books of All Time" (2009)."
― Details
"[Clowes] spells out the realities of teen angst as powerfully and authentically as Salinger did in The Catcher in the Rye for an eariler generation."
― The Village Voice
"The most readable comic of the year."
― Time
"The appeal of Daniel Clowes’ breakout graphic novel lies not from what could be predictable plotting, but from its engaging character work. It is the relationship between outsider teens Enid and Rebecca that holds readers in its hilariously cynical sway from panel one."
― Wizard
Daniel Clowes began his career as an “alternative” cartoonist in 1985 with the short-lived comic book series Lloyd Llewellyn. In 1989, he created the seminal comic book series, Eightball. The first among many stories to gain notice were the darkly comic Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron and his savage take on the comics industry, Pussey!. These were followed in the mid-'90s by the breakthrough hit Ghost World, the dark, complex magnum opus, David Boring, and an acclaimed short story collection, Caricature. The film adaptation of Ghost World was released to wide acclaim, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Clowes's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek and many other magazines and he is the winner of multiple Harvey, Eisner and Ignatz Awards as well as the PEN Literary Award for Graphic Literature in 2011. His most recent books include, the time travel thriller Patience, his deluxe Fantagraphics Studio Edition collection, Original Art: Daniel Clowes, and the new paperback edition of The Complete Eightball.
