The Graphic Novel ‘Ghost Town’ by Daniel Clowes

Analyze the graphic novel ‘Ghost Town’ by Daniel Clowes.

Choose two exerts from this novel. Work out the author’s ‘big’ purpose and keep referring to this and how it is backed up by your chosen aspects within your answers. Respond critically and perceptively to significant aspects of the visual text using examples from the text. Choose 2 or 3 aspects to talk about. Aspects of texts may include:

• audiences and purposes;
• ideas (e.g., themes, attitudes, beliefs, experiences, feelings, insights, meanings, opinions, thoughts, and understandings within the text);
• language features of visual or oral texts (e.g., cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing, production design, sound, performance, rhetorical devices);
• structures (e.g., narrative sequence, beginnings, and endings).