"To say that Nancy is a simple gag strip about a simple-minded snot-nosed kid is to miss the point completely. Nancy only appears to be simple at a casual glance. Like architect Mies Van Der Rohe, the simplicity is a carefully designed function of a complex amalgam of formal rules laid out by the designer. To look at Bushmiller as an architect is entirely appropriate, for Nancy is, in a sense, a blue print for a comic strip. Walls, floors, rocks, trees, ice-cream cones, motion lines, midgets and principals are carefully positioned with no need for further embellishment. And they are laid out with one purpose in mind - to get the gag across. Minimalist? Formalist? Structuralist? Cartoonist!"
How To Read Nancy by Mark Newgarden and Paul Karasik.
Ernie Bushmiller,
Selected Nancy Sunday Strips
Please keep up with the readings in the Duncan&Smith
Power of Comics and start working your way through the rest of
Understanding Comics. Finish
Watchmen and
Jimmy Corrigan.
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