The term can also apply to the way in which both Enid and Becky, but especially Enid, are haunted by the past. The phrase 'Ghost World' is seen by the characters several times, painted or graffitied on garage doors, signs, and billboards for an undeclared reason. As the story progresses, the background changes dramatically. The town plays a key part in the narrative, as it is constantly mocked and criticized by Enid and Rebecca. Ghost World takes place in an unnamed suburban town filled with shopping malls, fast food restaurants, and urban sprawl. The comic's success led to a movie adaptation of the same name, released in 2001 to critical acclaim and numerous nominations, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, written by Clowes and Terry Zwigoff. They spend their days wandering aimlessly around their unnamed American town, criticizing popular culture and the people they encounter while wondering what they will do for the rest of their days.Ī darkly written comic, with intermittently sombre explorations of friendship and modern life, Ghost World has become renowned for its frank treatment of adolescence. Ghost World follows the day-to-day lives of best friends Enid Coleslaw and Rebecca Doppelmeyer, two cynical, pseudo-intellectual, and intermittently witty teenage girls recently graduated from high school at the end of the 1990s. It was a commercial and critical success and developed into a cult classic. It was serialized in issues #11–18 (June 1993 – March 1997) of Clowes's comic book series Eightball, and was published in book form in 1997 by Fantagraphics Books. Ghost World is a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes.

Ghost world comic strips