Enid and Rebecca have just finished high school, and they spend their days drifting around their nameless American town, mocking everyone they meet and trying to work out what to do with their lives. As the summer goes on, their friendship starts to fall apart.
It is a funny, sad, perfectly observed book about the end of adolescence, and Clowes's clean, deadpan art, in black, white and a ghostly blue-green, is superb. Terry Zwigoff filmed it in 2001, with Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson.
