8. i love ghost world and i am totally freaking out

my blood pressure is really high for no reason. well, maybe it's because I still have homework to do and i have a one-minute speech tomorrow. Yes, a one-minute speech. It will be about zines, and I will bring in a zine that Felix, a couple of friends, and I made back in high school. It makes me happy, but I am worried that no one will know what the hell I'm talking about and will look at me confusedly.

okay. now i am doubly freaking out because Fantagraphics is coming out with a Ghost World special edition, a comic by Daniel Clowes. It's so witty. I heard the movie was different from the comic, and i've yet to see it. Ghost World starts out as a story between two girls who are best friends that just graduated high school, and by the end of summer, they start drifting away from each other because of different roads they want to take in life. It was also drawn and set in the 1990s. I love the 1990s. Most of the comics I love are set in the 90s, and I thus have this odd penchant for the decade (comic works by Adrian Tomine and Los Bros Hernandez's Love and Rockets contributed to that). I will stop gushing now.

here is a little video that fantagraphics made of the to-be released special edition of Ghost World, featuring the original comic in addition to other special fun ... special... pages. Yes, I'm not very descriptive, but it's "special." Oh, I'm freaking out: