Then he pointed to an array of urns shaped like leatherbound tomes. Clowes said that he sometimes comes here to write.

He saved one of his favorite places for last: the Chapel of the Chimes, a gloriously over-the-top columbarium filled with ferns, splashing fountains and wall after wall of glass-fronted compartments stacked with crematory urns. “It’s such an underdog,” he said admiringly. Clowes kept returning to the subject of his hometown of nearly two decades. Although he was supposed to be talking about his coming retrospective at the Oakland Museum of California, Mr. He pointed out the bench where Marshall, the alienated loner of “Mister Wonderful” (2011 serialized in The New York Times Magazine in 2007-8), sulks after being kicked out of a party, and the nail salons that the titular sad sack of “Wilson” (2010) curses when he returns home from prison. View the certification for CGC Certification ID 1975581004 and purchase grader's notes if available.IT was a gloomy winter day, and the cartoonist Daniel Clowes was taking me on a tour of his neighborhood here, including a downbeat stretch of Piedmont Avenue that has served as a setting in some of his recent graphic novels. Eightball #11 featuring the start of Ghost World (Fantagraphics Books, 1993)Įightball #11 (Fantagraphics Books, 1993) CGC NM/MT 9.8 White pages. 'Ghost World' storyline begins, with sotry, cover, and art by Dan Clowes. Eightball #11 is surprisingly difficult to get in CGC 9.8, with only four copies graded that by CGC and none higher, but there's an Eightball #11 (Fantagraphics Books, 1993) CGC NM/MT 9.8 White pages up for auction in this week's 2022 February 20-21 Sunday & Monday Comic Books Select Auction #122208 at Heritage Auctions. Ghost World was made into a 2001 movie directed by Terry Zwigoff and starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, and Steve Buscemi. Daniel Clowes's own life served as partial inspiration for the story.

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. 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 in the early 1990s.

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