![]() He was best known for Lloyd Llewellyn‘s arch humour, and most acclaimed for Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron – a waking nightmare of the 20th Century. Well, it seems now to be Clowes’ archetypal work – a template, even – but at the time it was something of a departure. Graphic novels have come a long way since then so, how does Daniel Clowes’ book stand up today? Begun over twenty years ago in Eightball, it was filmed, and that’s now over fifteen years old. ![]() A debt to Maggie and Hopey from Jaime Hernandez’s already canonical Locasis perhaps more obvious in hindsight. ![]() Enid is witty, painfully cool and self-conscious, Becky more ‘nice’ – a straight foil. Ghost World was a milestone in graphic novels reaching a young hip audience, who presumably identified with eighteen year-old outsiders Enid and Rebecca. ![]()
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