Ghost World

          Ghost World is the story of two teenage girls, struggling to leave the childish things of their past behind and find adulthood to be strange and unforgiving. The girls are superbly realised, surrounded as they are by a host of caricatures the extremist teenager who rebels against liberalism, the shy young boy who finds himself at the wrong end of the girls’ sexual frustrations, the parents who can’t do the right thing and a supporting cast of assorted weirdoes.

         The artwork is black and white and adds green highlights as the go-between. At first this seems a bit strange, as the black on white would be more than sufficient, though the extra colour adds a subtlety of depth that shades the world with a ghostly and atmospheric hue, brining these teenagers’ world alive. This comic is a fascinating insight into the mind of the disenfranchised youngster. Insecurity, anxiety, frustration and inevitability are mixed with friendship, love, independence and fun.