And then I had a dream. And in this dream I was floating through the blogosphere and my brain was my asshole, and I was pooping, pooping wild and free, and my little floating gnome turds dribbled down from the heavens, and then they teamed up and battled evil. And then, because creation is destruction, [...]
I have one reader who said he was having some problems with the RSS feed. Is anyone else experiencing troubles? Please let us know if so, or if there are any other technical problems you’re encountering. We’ve managed to get some things straightened out and are still struggling a little with others, but any feedback [...]
On HU Our first week on the tcj.com has been busy. I started out the week with a post explaining why the tcj.com website design is problematic. I then went on to tell our proprietor, Gary Groth, that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. The main event of the week though was our lengthy [...]
I have more to say about Ghost World? I’m surprised, too. It’s all the discussion about whether Enid seems like a real teenage girl or not, and what that means. You know, people have compared me to Enid since this damned book came out. (McBangle mentioned a similar dilemma in a comment on my original [...]
‘Show, don’t tell’ the saying goes, and that’s what Clowes does here. Ghost World, as those who’ve been reading along are aware, is the story of two teenaged girls fresh from highschool named Enid and Rebecca. Ghost World chronicles some episodic interludes in their relationship and Enid’s life. With its purposefully ugly art, limited color [...]
Shaenon Gaerrity weighs in on our Ghost World Roundtable. I’ll quote a couple of chunks. Noah Berlatsky compares Ghost World unfavorably to Ariel Schrag’s coming-of-age trilogy, pointing out how well Schrag captures the intensity of adolescence: “Ariel’s difficulty wasn’t that her world was fading out, but that it was too sharply coming into focus, and [...]
[Editorial Update: This is a post in a roundtable on Ghost World. The first, by kinukitty is here. The second by Charles Reece can be found here. Richard's contribution can be found here and Noah's take here.] I bought a hardcover collection of Ghost World sometime in 1997 because I enjoyed Dan Clowes’ story in [...]
Darwyn Cook relegates Wonder Woman to helpmate in Superman’s psychodrama.
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