Synopses & Reviews
Many connoisseurs -- including Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Scott McCloud (creator of the "Five-Card Nancy" card game), Joe Brainard, and Andy Warhol -- have recognized that Bushmiller's often-corny approached its own kind of zen-like cartoon perfection. In its own way, it turned out was in fact the most iconic comic strip of all; actually uses a strip to illustrate its entry on "comic strip." Fantagraphics' beloved Nancy series finally packages Nancy with the reverence it deserves. Our third volume contains another full three years of daily strips, from an era many regard as Bushmiller's finest.
Review
"Imagine R. Crumb's cartooning invaded by the ghost of Euclid of Alexandria and you begin to glean the essence of Ernie Bushmiller's comic strip ..." Paste
Review
"...[R]eading strip after strip resembles eating cotton candy. provides brief and simple pleasure, then essentially evaporates.... Fantagraphics' presentation of the strip is, for the most part, nicely done... printing an idealist, simple touchstone with the love and care it deserves." Hillary Brown
Synopsis
Nancy is back--and she's bringing Sluggo with her, for a full three years of the comic strip.
About the Author
Ernie Bushmiller (1905-1982) inherited the glamour-girl Fritzi Ritz strip in 1925. But Fritzi's niece Nancy, introduced in 1933, soon began to dominate, and in 1938 the strip officially became nancy. Bushmiller would continue to write and draw it until his death, winning the Reuben Award for best comic strip in 1976.Ivan Brunetti was born in Italy in 1967 and lives in Chicago, IL, where he teaches at Columbia College Chicago.