Original artwork for Nancy comic strip, June 12, 1979

N.p. N.p., 1979. Original three-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the June 12, 1979 daily strip of his seminal comic strip. With white-out in all three panels, and tipped-in corrections and an annotation in manuscript pencil to the first panel, changing "a bake" to "bread from".

In this entry, Nancy runs into trouble using Aunt Fritzi's new bread recipe.

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."

21 x 7 inches. Near Fine.

[Book #171595]