Earlier this year, Rudin secured the life rights to the Mississippi trio behind the film  Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb  after Vanity Fair published an article about them. The three began the project while on summer vacation in 1982, finishing it seven years later, shooting on a VHS camcorder and using backwoods Mississippi locales. Clowes wrote the graphic novel "Ghost World," which he adapted into the 2000 MGM movie with filmmaker Terry Zwigoff.

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