Original artwork for Nancy comic strip, September 11, 1974

N.p. N.p., 1974. Original three-panel artwork by Ernie Bushmiller for the September 11, 1974 daily strip of his seminal comic strip. White-out corrections to the first and second panels.

In this entry, Nancy discovers that a tree in her backyard makes her sleepy. An especially striking surrealist entry by Bushmiller.

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 #171598]