Cult classic comic! Ghost world! Blog no: 19!

Ghost world if you don't know is Amazing!

Written and illustrated by Daniel clowes (a popular american cartoonist from the 90s).

This comic book is witty (black humor) , smart and makes you feel that little bit alternative and cool.

It stars two misfits, resent highschool graduates (Enid Coleslaw and Rebecca Doppelmeyer) who both failed to get into college even though they are vastly less stupid than the rest of the "losers" in their hometown (in america).

I really real I and my sis relates to these girls, even if she doesn't agree, but i digress.

Enid apparently "drifts through life without a care" thanks youtube (never believe youtube!) as if she just does buy into the norm! ok, in the comic she makes her love interest, josh (who's kinda sheepish if you ask me) go into a adult shop and buys a bondage cat woman mask (no, this comic is not dirty in anyway...it's arty). she likes to play pranks on people for her own happyness. she loves the morbid!

Daniel clowes stated "When I started out I thought of her as this id creature . . . Then I realized halfway through that she was just more vocal than I was, but she has the same kind of confusion, self-doubts and identity issues that I still have -- even though she's 18 and I'm 39!" Enid Coleslaw's name is also an anigram of his name.

Now to Rebecca Doppelmeyer, neck length blonde hair and Enid's best friend. she is far more passive and naive than Enid. she's far more normal than Enid too, however really does feel second best. she's acturally pretty obsessive in the two's firendship too. usually responding in a sarcastic way. most of the time, her responses have nothing to do with what Enid is talking about. She has no particular aspiration in life and clingings past. she also has a crush on Josh (the same one as enid). i feel she dislikes and likes Enid at the same time and she gets mad at Enid when she does things without her. i kept on asking myself where are they going? where is their friendship going? if their not lesbians, why are they still together? yeah it's pretty undertoned.

the ending made me sad. the girls just grew apart and not much is answered. either Rebecca or neither got josh in the end, it's just never exsplained or shown. It ends with Enid's plain carried out which is states at the beginning of the book, which is Just packing a bag and hoping on the next bus to the city and jsut disappearing. alot of people think this was symbolisim for suicide. but when i read the book i didn't get that. though it kind does make sence. Rebecca grows up and becomes "a beauitful young woman" and really nolonger need Enid in the way she used too.

so it's kind 2 paths misfits can make or whatever, i don't know!

well apparently is a novel and a movie too!! i'll keep my eyes open for scans of the comic book so you can read and she what i mean when i say it's a really good read!