“Crumb” is fucking great, though totally disturbing. Kind of like that Kirby Dick doc about the super masochist (that one’s got body horror for days, if you know what I mean).

For what it’s worth, Sophie Crumb grew up to be a cartoonist herself. Enid’s drawings in Ghost World are actually credited to Sophie.

My son was a sarcastic, bitter, lonely, 11-year old gay Jewish boy when I took him to see Ghost World, and he totally identified with Enid. Ghost World was his favorite movie for a long time.

Lolol!! Rachel Dolezal is exactly this think piece.

I bet his head would explode if he watched “Sixteen Candles”.

Apparently, it’s also culturally insensitive, “at best”, to enjoy the music of a Bollywood movie so much that you dance around your empty room. By these standards, I guess I’m practically a klansman (I can’t help it, the music is just so darned infectious).

Yes...and that MAMA!!!!!! Lawd...his Brother...broke my heart!!! And the fact that the sisters wouldn’t even agree to BE in the film...I don’t know which one was worse...that Mama or the Father...and the film...REALLY got me to look at “Crumb” differently...like I feared for his daughter...and that WIFE OF HIS?!?!?!…

His brother with the digestion string... That part still haunts me. There’s a lot in that movie, but for some reason that part.

Yes, one of those documentaries which is smart, insightful and allows the viewer to come along for the ride.

I thought the beauty of the film was the unraveling of that friendship. They didn’t have a super huge blow out but we’re growing apart. It’s all about those relationships and it is difficult to convey in a film.

Personally, if im going to be insulted for being white id at least like it to come from an actual black person and not some white hipster man.

I think a lot of Enid’s disenchantment with Rebecca towards the end of the movie is indicative of Rebecca reaching the point where she had started to finally grow up. Enid, particularly Enid if she stayed in town, would always have been stuck in the same place emotionally and perhaps mentally.

I agree with everything Rich said about Enid, except the race/skin color part. It had nothing to do with being white, it had everything to do with feeling different, rejected, isolated and alone.

I love your post - thanks for writing it.

I grew up the same way as a white guy in a small West Texas town but I totally identified with the girls in the movie. I loved it. Still do and ill probably buy the Criterion version.

It’s funny, I never thought about the racial dynamics of Ghost World. Honestly I was just like Enid, I was a very sarcastic bitter teenager (but with brown skin and black hair and hijab). My friends and I would mock other students and we’d cuss out other people. (thankfully I grew the fuck up and I’m not like that…

What’s funny is that Seymour is almost Crumb in fictitious form, especially in terms of his misanthropy and love of old 78s. And then you had James Urbaniak as a sympathetic (if younger) Crumb in American Splendor a few years later.

Sorry, the white man says you should be offended.

uhhh.... I’m a South Asian Muslim immigrant and Ghost World was my #1 movie in 2001...shit, I watched it a thousand times on dvd and I was obsessed with the graphic novel and the website. I graduated from high school the same year the movie came out and I hated everyone with equal passion like Enid and Becky, and my…

I saw “Crumb” at the theater when it came out...It was like watching a horrifying car crash...I could NOT look away...and can NEVER forget!