Please note that all release dates are subject to change. Watch out for this one. Heck, the storyboards that many films employ to lay out scenes, are essentially comics, so any comic book can be seen as an outline for a film. In a way, comics are a more cerebral form than film because they rely on the imagination of the human mind to fill in the steps between one panel and another, not unlike how a painting inspires you to imagine it in different forms. Of course, all that being well and good, most people don't think of comic books in such highfalutin' ways.
Comics remain in the gutters of testosterone-driven heroics and extremely tight trousers for most.
How refreshing then that Ghost World is being adapted to film so that people might discover the art that inspired it, and maybe open another door to the world of non-heroics comics. As a film project, Ghost World has an unique niche as well. The comparison of Crumb to Clowes is of course intended to illustrate how perfect Terry Zwigoff is probably suited to adapt this story to film. It's quite exciting. Illeana Douglas has joined the cast.