One of 500 Signed Copies

Ghost World [Signed, Numbered]

Clowes, Daniel

Publication: Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics, 1997. First Edition.

Notes: The limited edition of one of the most critically acclaimed graphic novels of the 1990s.

"Ghost World is widely regarded as a landmark in American comics history, an important and influential example of the literary graphic novel... For readers in the 1990s—and many since—it changed what comic books meant. Ghost World showed that, when it came to representing the psychological complexities of real people living everyday lives, comics were equal to any medium."—The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel (CHGN).

The narrative arc of this book follows two teenage girls during the summer after graduation. "Female readers in particular praised Clowes for avoiding the idealization and condescension that plagued representations of female friendships, especially those written by men" (CHGN). The film director Terry Zwigoff adapted the story into a popular art-house film of the same name starring Scarlett Johansson.

Ghost World was first serialized in Clowes' comic, Eightball, issues 11 to 18 (June 1993 to March 1997).

Edition + Condition: First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed and numbered (#270) by Clowes on a printed card affixed to the front free endpaper (the publisher Fantagraphics's standard method of making limited editions at the time). Signed copies of Ghost World are uncommon.

Item No: #366280

Price: $500