The book collects a wide assortment of Nancy strips beginning with “Fritzi Ritz”, the strip where Nancy first appeared in the thirties, and continuing through the strip’s renaming in 1938 to “Nancy” and on through the run of the strip into the late seventies when Bushmiller stopped drawing the strip (preceeding his death in 1982). I ended up finding a copy of The Best of Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy, which, it turns out, contains the above essay. They take apart one Nancy strip, piece by piece, to show how all the elements work together, harmoniously. I never gave the comic strip Nancy a thought before I found Mark Newgarden and Paul Karasik’s How to Read Nancy, a brilliant short essay of comics close reading. The Best of Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy edited by Brian Walker.
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