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On February 1, 2002 Ghost World debuted in Norway.

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Ghost World (2001)

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Today in coming-of-age buddy comedy movie history: on November 16, 2001 Ghost World debuted in the United Kingdom.

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40 Prayers for the Christmas Season: Prayers for your Church or Small Group by David Clowes [REVIEW]

40 Prayers for the Christmas Season: Prayers for your Church or Small Group by David Clowes [REVIEW]

SYNOPSIS For use in Churches, small groups, and for your own devotional time, 40 Prayers for the Christmas Season provides simple, accessible prayers for use between Christmas and Epiphany. Adapted from the popular 500 Prayers series and written in everyday language, this book is the perfect resource to help mark one of the most important seasons in the Christian calendar—yet one often neglected…

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The Present and Absent in Ghost World

Having envisioned him as the “one guy who lives up to [her] standards” (26), Enid is deeply disillusioned when she finds “nobody” at the book-signing for David Clowes, who she then deems an “old perv” (30). One essay observes the irony that Enid can’t accurately envision a man who is envisioning her life page by page. (Of course, one could argue Daniel Clowes’ character of Enid is as misrepresentative a glorification of her demographic as Enid’s initial vision of David.)

What does it mean that Clowes sent a bastardized doppelganger for his protagonist to meet? He could be foreshadowing that he’ll continue to disappoint his characters as he shows the girls’ visions for the future to be as idyllic and unstable as Enid’s vision of David. On the other hand, it’s possible Enid is the one letting her author down; David could be Clowes’ bleak self-portrait, ridiculed and feared by a flaky fan who can’t get his first name right. It’s also possible Clowes is referencing himself-- and getting his own name wrong-- to draw attention to the fact that he and his name are already in the novel. Christened with an anagram of “Daniel Clowes,” Enid Coleslaw is, in the book-signing scene, a young Clowes imagining a cartoonist’s life as sleek and glamorous, only to learn from an adult Clowes that the career is more desolate.

Additionally, the book-signing isn’t Enid’s last or most important brush against the fourth wall. Thanks to an elusive graffiti artist (another Clowes avatar), Enid knows her own story’s title, a story with “a haunted quality” and a road “with many forks, all of which lead [...] to gloom and darkness” (78). At the novel’s end, Enid spots the Ghost World writer in the act, cementing Enid’s certainty that Ghost World is a place (and an author) Enid can confront.

Meanwhile, wearing an old lady cardigan and glasses (but still looking nearsighted,) Becky at once resembles an old woman and the hipster “woman of intellect and leisure” (78) Bob Skeetes foretold in Enid’s palm reading. It’s possible Skeetes was envisioning Becky, but it’s more likely he was envisioning the archetypal “beautiful young woman” (80) either girl would become by remaining in Ghost World. Dating Josh cements Becky’s metamorphosis, since Josh has represented an adult conscience for both girls throughout the story. With his own car and apartment, he’s responsible and financially independent. He’s also likable and mature, donating to the homeless and making the girls feel guilty for their “fucked-up trick” (43) at the Hubba Hubba diner.

In their last encounter, Becky doesn’t notice Enid and then sees her as “blurry” and “fading in and out” (76). It begs the question of whether Enid is disappearing or Becky just can’t see her old friend through the tunnel-vision of dawning adult life. Enid gets on a bus, fading in her last panel to a black silhouette. If their city was always a ghost world, does Enid’s fade-out suggest a resolution from the purgatory, and even a possible materialization into a living, human world?

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This is written by David Clowes and it is 100% I would do if I could do art