The
Enid character is taken from my favorite movie, "
Ghost World", directed by Terry Zwigoff (and inspired by the homonym comic of Daniel Clowes) and is played by the most beautiful and talented actress ever,
Thora Birch.
Simple-minded, impulsive, cynical and bitter, the strip's lead character drifts through her life without care, criticizing almost everyone she meets. Enid Coleslaw is an 18-year-old teenager, who has recently graduated from her high school, with best friend Rebecca Doppelmeyer. Enid takes an interest in playing pranks on other people, purely for her own benefit, especially a classmate named Josh who may be Enid’s love interest. Enid also enjoys anything morbid, forcing her friend Josh to take her to a pornographic store, saying “...Becky and I are dying to go in there, but we can't get get any boys to take us...” Clowes said of Enid’s character “When I started out I thought of her as this id creature . . . Then I realized halfway through that she was just more vocal than I was, but she has the same kind of confusion, self-doubts and identity issues that I still have -- even though she's 18 and I'm 39!".
Enid’s eventual fate in Ghost World is not explicitly shown; however, she does pack her bags and leave the city on a bus after her relationship with Rebecca ends. Some readers interpret this final section as a metaphor for suicide. This interpretation can be supported by a few subtle indications in the text: ‘Norman’ at the bus stop, the cemetery pictured in the table of contents, Enid’s hearse for sale, and a panel depicting Enid’s father and Carol looking very mournfully at an object not pictured. However, interpretation and significance is ultimately left up to each individual reader. One extratextual factor mitigating against this interpretation is that Enid (as well as Rebecca) makes a cameo appearance as an old lady in Clowes's Dan Pussey collection of comics. Pussey is a self-important, nerdy superhero comics artist, and the book ends in the future as Pussey dies alone and unloved, with Rebecca and Enid as two bitter crones in his rest home going through his possessions. When they discover his stash of "silly books" (comic books), they wonder, "What would a grown man want with such foolishness?"
Enid Coleslaw is also an anagram of "Daniel Clowes".
Ghost World is a graphic novel written and illustrated by Daniel Clowes. It was originally serialized in issues #11 through 18 (June 1993 to March 1997) of Clowes's comic book series Eightball, and was first published in book form in 1997 by Fantagraphics Books. A commercial and critical success, it was very popular with teenage audiences on its initial release and developed into a cult classic. The book has been reprinted in multiple editions and was the basis for the 2001 feature film of the same name.
Ghost World follows the day-to-day lives of best friends Enid Coleslaw (formerly "Cohn") and Rebecca Doppelmeyer, two cynical, intelligent and often witty teenage girls who have recently graduated from high school in the early 1990s. They spend their days wandering aimlessly around their unnamed American town, criticizing popular culture and the people they encounter while wondering what they will do for the rest of their days. As the comic progresses and Enid and Rebecca make the transition into adulthood, the two develop tensions and drift apart.
Ghost World is admired for its comedic approach to teenage life, friendships, young women and pop culture in general. Ghost World can be seen as a dramatic comic, however, it also makes use of elements of black comedy. Clowes has commented on the story as being an examination of "the lives of two recent high school graduates from the advantaged perch of a constant and (mostly) undetectable eavesdropper, with the shaky detachment of a scientist who has grown fond of the prize microbes in his petri dish." The comic's success led to a movie adaptation of the same name, released in 2001 to critical acclaim and numerous nominations, including an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay, which Clowes wrote.
source: wikipedia