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| Ghost World: the Special Edition
Hardcover
Edition: Special
Author: Daniel Clowes
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Release Date: 2008-10-20
ISBN-10: 1560978902
ISBN-13: 9781560978909
List Price: $28.95
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One of the greatest graphic novels of all-time, in an expanded, hardcover edition—the full graphic novel, the complete script of the Oscar-nominated movie, and over 30 new pages of rare ephemera.
Originally released in 1997 as a limited hardcover edition of 2,500 copies that sold out almost instantly, Ghost World has subsequently gone through 14 softcover printings, selling in excess of 150,000 copies in the United States, becoming one of the best-selling and most revered graphic novels of all-time, culminating in the 2001 Academy Award-nominated film starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi.
Despite Ghost World's success, the original, limited-edition hardcover first printing remains the only hardcover edition of Ghost World ever published and fetches hundreds of dollars on eBay. To commemorate the tenth anniversary, Fantagraphics Books is proud to present a deluxe, expanded Ghost World special edition, combining the original graphic novel, the Oscar-nominated screenplay adaptation by Clowes and Terry Zwigoff, as well as over two dozen pages of rare and obscure bonus material in one book, along with a new cover and introducton.
Ghost World is the story of Becky and Enid, two teenaged girls and best friends facing the common prospect of not only growing up, but growing apart from each other. Clowes paints a tender picture of this intellectually precocious, sexually adventurous (despite a mutual lack of experience), and formative period in their lives, filtered through a light blue hue echoing a world lit by the cathode rays of a television—a perfect metaphor for their post-nuclear existence. Both naturalistic and nostalgic, Ghost World carves a layered narrative out of the daily existence of these fully-realized young women.
Ghost World: The Special Edition will include: the original, 80-page graphic novel; the out-of-print, Oscar-nominated 106-page screenplay; the little-seen comic strip created for the Ghost World soundtrack; and over 30 pages of rare ephemera related to the book and film, including covers to foreign editions of Ghost World, rare promotional art, pictures, sketches and much more.
Ghost World - special edition hardcover (2008)
| Customer Rating: | Great fun
Annotations to the comic (front and back covers included!), the out of print screenplay for the Ghost World film
Artwork for the cd soundtrack, and for the Enid doll. Also, some Enid cartoons and all that a fan of the comic (originally printed in Eightball) and film could want
Published October 2008 |
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| Customer Rating:  | At first I found the dialogue relatably irreverent, then the constant ridicule of everything got repetitive and I would have liked to see a bit of positivity, then the ending reveals the main character's sense of humour as a defensive front.
So I guess the writing starts out like a more clued-in Kevin Smith, then pushes into nihilism, and ends up conservatively pop-psychological. There's a strong sense of creativity in there and an unusually informed outside perspective on counter-culture but the serious side of the writing seems to undermine it. |
Relentless Narcissism
| Customer Rating: | | This is the affectedly vulgar tale of two young women who need some discipline. Those who feel they have the credentials to declare other human beings "ugly" will probably see themselves in the main characters and find them hilarious. For those who have grown up, the shtick will wear thin quickly. The art is beautiful and the writing definitely has its moments, but I guess I just can remember actually being a stupid jerk when I was younger and don't look back on those days with much fondness. |
disappointing
| Customer Rating: | I found "Ghost World" mentioned in an article listing
"top 10 books" for various people. Being no stranger to
graphic art books (aka "comics" :), I thought I'd try it.
I regret that the person recommending it apparently hadn't
read many books. The story failed to capture my interest, and the art didn't redeem it. I'd recommend anything by Will Eisner instead (e.g., A Contract With God).
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really interesting
| Customer Rating: | | Clowes has managed to perfectly portrait the development of a teenage friendship and how it is affected by the transition of the main characters into adulthood. In this boom era of comics I seldom find works that touch upon a subject that most of us can relate to. It also has in my opinion a perfect and realistic ending. I would definitely recommend it. |
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