This is an advance order item. Your order is due by July 25 for this product. This landmark collection features ten of Clowes's mostinfluential stories, along with interviews in which he talks about his career and creative process, and twelve thought-provoking essays by contemporary scholars and critics. A wide-ranging introduction to the work of one of the most important living cartoonists, the book features Ghost World and several other stories - some reprinted for the first time - about boys and girls coming of age, troubled superheroes, and the place of artists and critics in popular culture.