Original artwork for Nancy comic strip, circa 1970s

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 Possibly unpublished, as we have been unable to locate this specific strip, which does not include the expected date or United Feature Syndicate copyright overlay.

In this entry, Nancy goes to the bank to see about a loan. Bushmiller makes use of Ben Day dots in each of the three frames.

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 #171604]