Original artwork for Nancy comic strip, circa 1970s

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Original two-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the daily strip of his seminal comic strip Nancy, circa 1970s. Likely unpublished, as we have been unable to locate this specific strip, which does not include a date or a United Feature Syndicate copyright overlay, as is expected.

With faint annotations in manuscript pencil to the margins, and white-out in parts of the second panel.

As with American cinema, it was the French who first championed the studied simplicity of Bushmiller's un-deconstructible combination of rigid artistic style and even more rigidly governed humor. In 2012, Fantagraphics Press took on the long overdue task of putting the complete series into book form.

In our estimation, Daniel Clowes put it best in his introduction to Fantagraphics' first volume of Bushmiller's long run. Clowes astutely points out that the Nancy seems to come "from some primal Jungian dreamscape, miraculously transmitted into the morning paper." He goes on to say how he imagines Bushmiller at work, "carefully extracting every shred of irony from each frame."

20.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine.

[Book #169551]