For once in a comic story, people are portrayed as they really talk and act. Clowes' pitch is uncannily accurate
Washington Post
A hilarious, melancholy graphic novel
Newsweek
Clowes' remarkable <i>Ghost World</i> might some day become a primer for the next generation of comics writers and artists... Masterfull
Spin
Clowes spells out the realities of teenage angst as powerfully and authentically as Salinger did in <i>Catcher in the Rye</i> for an earlier generation
Hartford Advocate
If ever there was a comic book story meant to be examined by non-comics fans, it's this, a classic in any medium
The Onion