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BEST AND WORST 2001 THE YEAR'S BEST COMIX...
...GHOST WORLD An Amelie with attitude, teen Enid (the frighteningly assured Thora Birch) adopts orphan things and people in order to make fun of them. This daringly undarling comedy, from director Terry Zwigoff and comix writer Daniel Clowes, shows just how furtive and morose an ordeal growing up can be. It's a Heathers for the 9/11 Generation...
...Ghost World An Amélie with attitude, teen Enid (the frighteningly assured Thora Birch) adopts orphan things and people in order to make fun of them. This daringly undarling comedy, from director Terry Zwigoff and comix writer Daniel Clowes, shows just how furtive and morose an ordeal growing up can be. It's a Heathers for the 9/11 Generation...
...Robbins, whose own career began when she started doing comix in the 1960s, has an old-school feminism approach to her subject. She makes no bones about getting political, calling out big-name publishers and syndicates for their history of sexist hiring practices, including many personal accounts by the artists of humiliating interviews at such places. She also chastises current mainstream publishers Marvel and DC for their total lack of outreach to girl readers because, she says, of their circular logic about girls not reading comics...
...sure is tough. I feel genuinely bad for women who want buy comix and have to go into those horrifying comicbook stores hawking all that garish adolescent male art-swill. (I shop online to avoid them all.) There can be no doubt that part of comix' continuing marginalization has to do with past and continued alienation of half the creative force and half the consumer force. Trina Robbins "The Great Women Cartoonists" makes a tremendous contribution to rediscovering a fading history, with hopes of changing the future...