Nancy is Happy: The Complete Dailies 1942-1945 - Softcover

Bushmiller, Ernie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606993607 ISBN 13: 9781606993606

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2012

Synopsis

The latest addition to Fantagraphicsa?? award- winning classic comic strip reprint series.A funny thing happened on the way to comic-strip immortality. For many years, Ernie Bushmillera??s Nancy, with its odd-looking, squat heroine, nearly abstract art, and often super-corny gags, was perceived as the stodgiest, squarest comic strip in the world. Popular with newspaper readers, true a?? but definitely not a strip embraced by comic-strip connoisseurs, like Krazy Kat, Dick Tracy or Terry and the Pirates. But then those connoisseurs took a closer look, and began to realize that Bushmillera??s art approached its own kind of cartoon perfection, and those corny gags often achieved a striking zen quality. In its own way, it turned out Nancy was in fact the most iconic comic strip of all. (The American Heritage Dictionary actually uses a Nancy strip to illustrate its entry on a??comic strip.a??) Charter members of the Nancy revival include Art Spiegelman, who published...

About this title

Product Description:

• Nancy joins Peanuts and Popeye at Fantagraphics! Nancy Volume 1, the first in an ongoing series, collects every daily strip of Ernie Bushmiller's hyper-stylized, nearly abstract comic from 1942-1945 in a fat, square format (designed by the award-winning Jacob Covey). It includes a biography of Bushmiller and many more extras. The zen-like Nancy is the distillation of a newspaper comic strip, so much so that it illustrates the "comic strip" entry in the American Heritage Dictionary.

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 Nancy... --William Nericcio"

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1606993607
• ISBN 13: 9781606993606
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432