This post is from one of several previous incarnations of this site and probably doesn’t quite fit the current format. In a former life this was a group blog and a tumblelog before it became a static jekyll site. If anything looks broken or is worded oddly that could be why. Pardon the dust.
Further to my post from yesterday, an additional movie trend is that of turgid comic-book adaptations. Thank the lord then that Dan Clowes and Terry Zwigoff seem to have managed the impossible and created a comic-book film for love not money.
Ghost World is based on the comic-strip of the same name taken from the pages of Clowes’ Eightball comic book. Clowes’ work owes a debt to the great confessor R. Crumb, whose work Zwigoff in turn payed homage to in his documentary, Crumb. The pairing of these two is therefore natural, so it’s no surprise that Ghost World the film has been the result of collaboration rather than slavish reproduction. Both are fantastic artists in their own rights and it’s heartwarming that they’ve managed to see their visions through to a final release where so many others have failed.
Oh, and be sure to pick up your little Enid action doll too.