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{{short description|2011 graphic novel by Vera Brosgol}}
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{{Infobox book
| name           = Anya's Ghost
| image          = Anya'sGhostCoverBrosgol.jpg
| caption        = ''Anya's Ghost'' cover
| author         = [[Vera Brosgol]]
| language       = English
| genre          = {{hlist|[[Coming-of-age story|Coming-of-age]]|[[ghost story]]}}
| set_in         = [[New England]]
| publisher      = [[First Second Books]]
| published      = {{start date|2011|06|07}}
| media_type     = [[Graphic novel]]
| pages          = 221<ref name="2011-06-08 NYT" /><ref name="2011-05-01 Oregonian" /> or 224<ref name="2011-06-07 Kirkus" />
| awards         = {{unbulleted list|[[Cybils Award]] (2011)|[[Eisner Awards|Eisner Award]] (2012)|[[Harvey Awards|Harvey Award]] (2012)}}
| isbn           = 978-1-59643-552-0
| dewey          = 741.5973
}}

'''''Anya's Ghost''''' is a [[coming-of-age story|coming-of-age]]<ref name="2016-06-15 Bustle" /><ref name="2011-05-31 Wired" /> [[ghost story]]<ref name="2011-04-06 Boing Boing" /> in [[graphic novel]] format.<ref name="2011-06-19 LAT" />  The first book by <!-- uncited: Russian-born American -->cartoonist [[Vera Brosgol]], ''Anya's Ghost'' was published on June 7, 2011.

In the novel, unpopular Anya befriends the ghost of Emily, a girl around Anya's age who died 90 years earlier.  After failing to make Anya popular and happy, Emily becomes manipulative and controlling, leading Anya to discover the truth about Emily's death.

''Anya's Ghost'' took four years from inception to publication, and is drawn predominantly in hues of violet.  Well received by critics, ''Anya's Ghost'' is the recipient of [[Cybils Award|Cyblis]], [[Harvey Awards|Harvey]], and [[Eisner Awards|Eisner]] awards.  Production on a [[film adaptation]] of the novel was supposed to begin by the end of 2017.

==Plot==
Annushka Borzakovskaya<ref name="2011-06-19 LAT" /> (Anya) is a Russian émigré living in the United States with her mother and brother (Sasha).  Unpopular at her [[New England]]<ref name="2011-06-08 NYT" /> private school, Anya skips school and walks through a nearby forest.  She falls into a dry well and finds herself alongside a human skeleton.  The skeleton's ghost—a shy, homely girl named Emily—appears and explains that she too fell down the well and died of dehydration after breaking her neck ninety years ago.  Emily wishes to befriend and help Anya, but cannot move far from her bones.  Anya is soon rescued by a passerby, but Emily's skeleton remains undiscovered.

Emily later appears to Anya at school, Anya having inadvertently taken a finger bone from Emily's skeleton.  Anya decides to keep the bone after Emily helps her cheat on a biology exam and spy on her crush, Sean.  Emily gives her full name as Emily Reilly and explains that her fiancé died fighting in [[World War&nbsp;I]], and that her parents were murdered at home.  She was running from the killer when she fell down the well.  Anya promises to find Emily's killer, while Emily agrees to help Anya fit in at school and win over Sean.  As their friendship develops, Anya drifts away from her one friend at school, Siobhan, while Emily becomes disinterested in discovering her murderer's identity.

At Emily's insistence, Anya dresses up and goes to a party attended by Sean and his girlfriend Elizabeth.  There, Anya discovers that Sean habitually [[infidelity|cheats]] on Elizabeth with her knowledge.  Distraught, Anya leaves the party, which makes Emily angry and confused as she believed Anya and Sean were destined for each other.  Anya later notices Emily becoming more controlling and adjusting her appearance by straightening her hair and smoking ghostly cigarettes.  Anya goes to the library without Emily to research the killer; there she learns that Emily had no fiancé, but had instead murdered a young couple in their home after her [[unrequited love]] rejected her, and then died running from the authorities.

When Anya returns home, the finger bone is missing.  After being confronted with the truth, Emily shows that she is [[psychokinesis|capable of moving solid objects]], implying that she put her finger bone in Anya's bag.  Emily begins threatening Anya's family to make Anya comply, even causing Anya's mother to fall down the stairs.  After Emily appears before Sasha, he reveals that he found the bone earlier.  Anya retrieves it and runs to the well, pursued by Emily.

Once there, Anya confronts and accuses Emily of trying to live [[vicariousness|vicariously]] through her.  Emily rebukes Anya, saying that she is no better<!--  (Anya having lied to Sean and distanced herself from Siobhan) -->, and that the two of them are more alike than she wants to admit.  After Emily fails to push Anya into the well, Anya drops the bone back in.  Emily then possesses her own skeleton and climbs out to give further chase.  Anya stops and convinces Emily of the futility of her situation, causing the tearful ghost to dissipate, and the skeleton to fall back into the well.  Later, Anya convinces her school to fill the well and rekindles her friendship with Siobhan.

==Development==
===Writing===
Brosgol conceived the character of Anya when she was working on ''[[Put the Book Back on the Shelf]]'' (2006), a comics anthology based on the music of the Scottish [[indie pop]] band [[Belle and Sebastian]].  She wrote a short story about a disaffected schoolgirl to accompany the song "Family Tree" (from the band's 2000 album ''[[Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant]]'').  Brosgol didn't finish the story, but enjoyed drawing "that character with her fat little legs and cigarettes."  Then, after reading [[Haruki Murakami]]'s novel ''[[The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle]]'', she decided her unnamed character should fall down a well.  The rest of the story came later, drawn from the author's own life and other inspiration.<ref name="2011-12-31 Brosgol" />  Brosgol started work on ''Anya's Ghost'' in 2007.<ref name="2011-10-15 Wired" />

===Production===
As ''Anya's Ghost'' was her first book,<ref name="2011-10-15 Wired" /> Brosgol said that its production was an exercise in trial and error.  Brosgol does not work from a script, saying that "the art and the dialogue come at the same time and one suggests the other".  She prefers to illustrate events rather than use dialogue in her comics.  Working from a detailed outline, Brosgol drew [[thumbnail]]s of each panel—two to a page in a [[Moleskine]] notebook—and wrote the dialogue as she went along.<ref name="2011-06-16 Brosgol" />

From her thumbnails, Brosgol used her [[Wacom Cintiq]] to draw a rough version of the ultimate art.  This rough version of ''Anya's Ghost'' went to her editor for approval.  After approval, Brosgol went back through her rough draft and "tightened the roughs up just enough so that [she] could ink them".  She then used paintbrushes (being especially particular about her [[Winsor & Newton]] Series 7s) to paint on [[Canson]] translucent [[vellum]] atop her printed-out rough draft.  Brosgol inked the [[panel (comics)|panels]] and [[speech balloon]]s first, adding in the lettering digitally later with a custom font developed for her by [[John Martz]]; she [[colorist|colored]] the novel in [[Adobe Photoshop]].<ref name="2011-06-16 Brosgol" />

''Anya's Ghost'' is drawn in what [[Pamela Paul]] called a "deep violet palette"<ref name="2011-06-08 NYT" /> that Brosgol called "purpley-blue".  The artist herself said she chose the colors "for no other reason than I like purpley-blue and I think it feels right for the story".<ref name="2011-06-16 Brosgol" />  [[Susan Carpenter]] of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' interpreted the colors as "a subtle underscoring of Anya's bruised ego".<ref name="2011-06-19 LAT" />

===Publication===
Having worked on [[Kazu Kibuishi]]'s [[Flight (comics)|''Flight'']] comics, Brosgol contacted his [[talent agent]] Judith Hansen who had agreed to look at the work of anybody involved.  After completing the art for ''Anya's Ghost'' in 2009, Brosgol brought it to Hansen, who agreed to represent the artist.  Brosgol finished the cover art in 2010, and then "there's a full year on the end for printing, and marketing, and all of that which comes with a book publisher."<ref name="2011-10-15 Wired" />  The book was published on June 7, 2011<ref name="2011-06-07 Kirkus" /> by [[First Second Books]].<ref name="2012-09-09 Harvey Awards" />

==Reception==
''Anya's Ghost'' won the 2011 [[Cybils Award|Cybils]] literary award in the [[young adult literature|Young Adult]] category.<ref name="2012-02-16 Comic Book Resources" />  It also won the 2012 [[Harvey Awards|Harvey Award]] for "Best Original Graphic Publication for Younger Readers"<ref name="2012-09-09 Harvey Awards" /> and the 2012 [[Eisner Awards|Eisner Award]] for "[[Eisner Award for Best Publication for Teens|Best Publication for Young Adults (Ages 12–17)]]".<ref name="Comic-Con: Eisner Awards" />  ''Anya's Ghost'' was nominated for the 2011 [[Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel]], but lost to ''[[Neonomicon]]'' by [[Alan Moore]].<ref name="Bram Stoker Award" />

The ''Los Angeles Times''{{apostrophe}} [[Susan Carpenter]] reviewed the graphic novel and described it as "a well-paced story that feels dynamic and also intimate."  She further lauded the work, calling it "humorous" and "beautifully drawn".<ref name="2011-06-19 LAT" />  [[Pamela Paul]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' compared ''Anya's Ghost'' positively to [[Marjane Satrapi]]'s ''[[Persepolis (comics)|Persepolis]]'', saying that the novel felt real (even with its supernatural elements) and that Anya was "a smart, funny and compassionate portrait of someone who, for all her sulking and sneering, is the kind of daughter many parents would like to have."<ref name="2011-06-08 NYT" />  ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]''{{'s}} [[Kathy Ceceri]] also noted an artistic similarity to ''Persepolis''; she not only liked how ''Anya's Ghost'' intertwined the [[angst|teenage angst]] and fantasy elements of the novel, but praised how Anya's desire for a boyfriend doesn't overwhelm the story.<ref name="2011-05-31 Wired" />  [[Cory Doctorow]] reviewed ''Anya's Ghost'' for ''[[Boing Boing]]'', calling it "really sweet, really funny and really scary, [with] a powerful message about identity, fitting in, and the secret selfish bastard lurking in all of us and whether having such a goblin inside makes us irredeemable or merely human."<ref name="2011-04-06 Boing Boing" />  [[Whitney Matheson]] with ''[[USA Today]]'' wrote that ''Anya's Ghost'' is a "funny, creepy and a delightful page-turner" and cited author [[Neil Gaiman]] who called the novel "a masterpiece".<ref name="2011-05-17 USA Today" />  Steve Duin of ''[[The Oregonian]]'' praised the inventiveness of Brosgol's storytelling, and called her art "[a] little uneven, but&nbsp;... at its best when the lights go out."<ref name="2011-05-01 Oregonian" />  Almost six years after its publication, [[Paste (magazine)|''Paste'']] listed ''Anya's Ghost'' as a comic having "the potential to mean something special, to offer something valuable and important, whether that’s revelatory depth or escapist fun, to a young reader."<ref name="2017-04-07 Paste" />

==Film adaptation==
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[[Andy Muschietti|Andy]] and [[Barbara Muschietti]], director and producer of the 2013 [[horror film]] [[Mama (2013 film)|''Mama'']], bought the [[film rights]] to ''Anya's Ghost'' in 2015.  That October, they were speaking with scriptwriter [[Patrick Ness]] for a [[screenplay]],<ref name="2015-10-30 Variety" /> and in August 2017, ''[[Deadline Hollywood]]'' announced that, with a script by Ness, production of the ''Anya's Ghost'' film would "begin before year’s end."  [[Dan Mazer]] would [[film director|direct]], [[Jeremy Bolt]] and Benedict Carver would [[film producer|produce]], and [[Entertainment One]] was [[film finance|financing]] the film.  Bolt described Ness as "passionate about the source material", having written a "fresh and distinctive" screenplay; Bolt went on to describe the film as a "classic high school comedy with a supernatural twist."<ref name="2017-08-23 Deadline" />  According to ''[[Deadline Hollywood]]'', [[Emma Roberts]] had been cast to star in the film.<ref name="2018-03-09 Deadline" />

==See also==
* {{annotated link|Portrayal of women in American comics}}

==References==
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<ref name="2011-04-06 Boing Boing">{{cite web |url=http://boingboing.net/2011/04/06/anyas-ghost-sweet-an.html |title=''Anya's Ghost'': sweet and scary ghost story about identity |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |author-link=Cory Doctorow |date=2011-04-06 |website=[[Boing Boing]] |language=en |access-date=2023-02-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501193444/http://boingboing.net/2011/04/06/anyas-ghost-sweet-an.html |archive-date=2016-05-01}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

<ref name="2011-05-01 Oregonian">{{cite news |last1=Duin |first1=Steve |date=2011-05-01 |title=The timely arrival of Vera Brosgol and 'Anya's Ghost' |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/2011/05/vera_brosgol_and_anyas_ghost.html |url-status=live |work=[[The Oregonian]] |language=en |issn=8750-1317 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20111208063811/http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf/2011/05/vera_brosgol_and_anyas_ghost.html |archive-date=2011-12-08 |access-date=2019-08-27}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

<ref name="2011-05-17 USA Today">{{cite news |last1=Matheson |first1=Whitney |author-link1=Whitney Matheson |date=2011-05-17 |title=Comics recs: 'Anya's Ghost', 'Change-Bots', more graphic goodness |url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/post/2011/05/comics-recs-anyas-ghost-change-bots-more-graphic-goodness/1 |url-status=dead |language=en |issn=0734-7456 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111225014152/http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/post/2011/05/comics-recs-anyas-ghost-change-bots-more-graphic-goodness/1 |archive-date=2011-12-25 |access-date=2023-02-12}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

<ref name="2011-05-31 Wired">{{cite magazine |last1=Ceceri |first1=Kathy |date=2011-05-31 |title=Review: Anya's Ghost |url=https://www.wired.com/2011/05/review-anyas-ghost/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |location=[[San Francisco]] |publisher=[[Condé Nast]] |issn=1059-1028 |oclc=24479723 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306210823/http://www.wired.com/2011/05/review-anyas-ghost/ |archive-date=2016-03-06 |access-date=2017-08-08}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

<ref name="2011-06-07 Kirkus">{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/vera-brosgol/anyas-ghost/ |title=Anya's Ghost |date=2011-04-18 |website=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |publisher=Virginia Kirkus Bookshop Service |location=[[New York City]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222329/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/vera-brosgol/anyas-ghost/ |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=live |access-date=2017-07-29}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

<ref name="2011-06-08 NYT">{{cite news |last1=Paul |first1=Pamela |author-link1=Pamela Paul |date=2011-06-08 |title=A Girl and Her Ghost |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/books/review/young-adult-books-anyas-ghost-by-vera-brosgol.html |url-status=live |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en |issn=1553-8095 |oclc=1645522 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150811220508/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/books/review/young-adult-books-anyas-ghost-by-vera-brosgol.html |archive-date=2015-08-11 |access-date=2024-12-02 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

<ref name="2011-06-16 Brosgol">{{cite web |url=http://verabee.com/2011/06/process/ |title=process |last1=Brosgol |first1=Vera |author-link1=Vera Brosgol |date=2011-06-16 |website=verabee |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331123834/http://verabee.com/2011/06/process/ |archive-date=2016-03-31 |url-status=dead |access-date=2021-12-21}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

<ref name="2011-06-19 LAT">{{cite news |last1=Carpenter |first1=Susan |author-link1=Susan Carpenter |date=2011-06-19 |title=Not Just For Kids: 'Anya's Ghost' |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2011-jun-19-la-ca-vera-brosgol-20110619-story.html |url-status=live |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |language=en |issn=0458-3035 |oclc=3638237 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306032038/http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/19/entertainment/la-ca-vera-brosgol-20110619 |archive-date=2016-03-06 |access-date=2021-05-09}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

<ref name="2011-10-15 Wired">{{cite magazine |last1=Liu |first1=Jonathan H. |date=2011-10-15 |title=Wordstock Interview: Vera Brosgol |url=https://www.wired.com/2011/10/wordstock-interview-vera-brosgol/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |location=[[Portland, Oregon]] |issn=1059-1028 |oclc=24479723 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130326040042/http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/10/wordstock-interview-vera-brosgol/ |language=en |archive-date=2013-03-26 |access-date=2021-12-21}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

<ref name="2011-12-31 Brosgol">{{cite web |url=http://verabee.com/2011/12/frequently-asked-questions/ |title=Frequently Asked Questions |last1=Brosgol |first1=Vera |author-link1=Vera Brosgol |date=2011-12-31 |website=verabee |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406064536/http://verabee.com/2011/12/frequently-asked-questions/ |archive-date=2016-04-06 |url-status=dead |access-date=2021-12-21 |language=en}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

<ref name="2012-02-16 Comic Book Resources">{{cite web |url=http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/02/comics-a-m-anyas-ghost-zita-the-spacegirl-win-cybils-awards/ |title=''Anya's Ghost'', ''Zita the Spacegirl'' win Cybils Awards |last1=Alverson |first1=Brigid |date=2012-02-16 |department=Comics A.M. |website=[[Comic Book Resources]] |language=en |access-date=2024-12-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150920192754/http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/02/comics-a-m-anyas-ghost-zita-the-spacegirl-win-cybils-awards/ |archive-date=2015-09-20}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

<ref name="2012-09-09 Harvey Awards">{{cite web |url=http://www.harveyawards.org/2012/09/09/congratulations-to-the-harvey-award-recipients/ |title=Congratulations to the Harvey Award Recipients! |last=Tree |first=Brad |date=2012-09-09 |publisher=[[Harvey Awards]] |language=en |access-date=2023-02-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315054928/http://www.harveyawards.org/2012/09/09/congratulations-to-the-harvey-award-recipients/ |archive-date=2016-03-15}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

<ref name="2015-10-30 Variety">{{cite magazine |last1=Mayorga |first1=Emilio |date=2015-10-30 |title=Muschiettis to Produce Supernatural Thriller 'Shadows' (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2015/film/global/muschiettis-to-produce-supernatural-thriller-shadows-exclusive-1201630876/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |location=[[Los Angeles]] |publisher=[[Penske Media Corporation]] |issn=0042-2738 |oclc=810134503 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305002513/http://variety.com/2015/film/global/muschiettis-to-produce-supernatural-thriller-shadows-exclusive-1201630876/ |archive-date=2016-03-05 |access-date=2017-08-08 |quote=Spain's Alex and David Pastor to direct}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

<ref name="2016-06-15 Bustle">{{cite magazine |last1=Wilson |first1=Kristian |date=2016-06-15 |title='Anya's Ghost' Author Vera Brosgol Has A New Graphic Novel On The Way! — EXCLUSIVE IMAGES |url=http://www.bustle.com/articles/166864-anyas-ghost-author-vera-brosgol-has-a-new-graphic-novel-on-the-way-exclusive-images |url-status=live |magazine=[[Bustle (magazine)|Bustle]] |location=[[New York City]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160723065207/http://www.bustle.com/articles/166864-anyas-ghost-author-vera-brosgol-has-a-new-graphic-novel-on-the-way-exclusive-images |archive-date=2016-07-23 |access-date=2017-07-29}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

<ref name="2017-04-07 Paste">{{cite magazine |date=2017-04-07 |title=Required Reading: 50 of the Best Kids Comics |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/04/required-reading-50-of-the-best-kids-comics.html |url-status=live |magazine=[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]] |location=[[Avondale Estates, Georgia]] |publisher=Wolfgang's Vault |issn=1540-3106 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615053039/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/04/required-reading-50-of-the-best-kids-comics.html |archive-date=2017-06-15 |access-date=2017-07-28}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

<ref name="2017-08-23 Deadline">{{cite magazine |last1=Fleming |first1=Mike Jr |date=2017-08-23 |title=Dan Mazer To Helm Supernatural Comedy 'Anya's Ghost' |url=https://deadline.com/2017/08/anyas-ghost-dan-mazer-patrick-ness-eone-1202154438/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |publisher=[[Penske Media Corporation]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823180125/http://deadline.com/2017/08/anyas-ghost-dan-mazer-patrick-ness-eone-1202154438/ |archive-date=2017-08-23 |access-date=2017-08-24}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

<ref name="2018-03-09 Deadline">{{cite magazine |last1=Tartaglione |first1=Nancy |date=2018-03-09 |title='Anya's Ghost': Emma Roberts To Star In Dan Mazer-Helmed Supernatural Comedy |url=https://deadline.com/2018/03/emma-roberts-cast-anyas-ghost-movie-dan-mazer-eone-1202321986/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |publisher=[[Penske Media Corporation]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310015221/http://deadline.com/2018/03/emma-roberts-cast-anyas-ghost-movie-dan-mazer-eone-1202321986/ |archive-date=2018-03-10 |access-date=2018-03-15}}</ref><!-- exhausted -->

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==External links==
* {{official website |1=https://www.verabee.com/anya-1}}

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