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Nancy and Sluggo's Guide to Life : Comics about Money, Food, and Other Essentials

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Product Code: 9781681378367
ISBN13: 9781681378367
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If you were alive in twentieth-century America, you knew Ernie Bushmiller?s Nancy?and this new collection assembles some of the greatest strips featuring the much-loved cartoon icon and her pug-nosed companion, Sluggo. The newspaper cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller once admitted that ?all my characters are conceived in desperation.? Nancy was no exception. She was the niece of the star of his other strip, Fritzi Ritzi, and meant to serve as a throwaway gag character. But Nancy could not be contained: Within a few years, Bushmiller?s strip had been renamed for her, and she had begun her ascent into the pantheon of cartooning greats. Nancy, along with on-and-off boyfriend Sluggo, delivered absurd laughs to readers for decades, all rendered in Bushmiller?s distinctive line that cartoonist Denis Kitchen once called ?geometric perfection.? A masterpiece of humor and cartooning, Nancy earned both scorn and acclaim for decades, serving as a muse (and sometimes punching bag) for the likes of Andy Warhol, Joe Brainard, Gary Panter, Matt Groening, and more. This collection of Bushmiller?s Nancy brings together a selection from the beloved Kitchen Sink Press editions of Nancy strips, including How Sluggo Survives! and Nancy Eats Food, as well as a number of newly selected cartoons. Together, this wide-ranging collection offers a chance for readers to experience the full range of Bushmiller?s absurd humor and unexpected visual delights. As Nancy once said: ?Anything can happen in a comic strip!?


Author: Ernie Bushmiller
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publication Date: May 14, 2024
Number of Pages: 149 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1681378361
ISBN-13: 9781681378367

Nancy and Sluggo's Guide to Life : Comics about Money, Food, and Other Essentials

$24.95
$23.25
Sale 7%
 
If you were alive in twentieth-century America, you knew Ernie Bushmiller?s Nancy?and this new collection assembles some of the greatest strips featuring the much-loved cartoon icon and her pug-nosed companion, Sluggo. The newspaper cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller once admitted that ?all my characters are conceived in desperation.? Nancy was no exception. She was the niece of the star of his other strip, Fritzi Ritzi, and meant to serve as a throwaway gag character. But Nancy could not be contained: Within a few years, Bushmiller?s strip had been renamed for her, and she had begun her ascent into the pantheon of cartooning greats. Nancy, along with on-and-off boyfriend Sluggo, delivered absurd laughs to readers for decades, all rendered in Bushmiller?s distinctive line that cartoonist Denis Kitchen once called ?geometric perfection.? A masterpiece of humor and cartooning, Nancy earned both scorn and acclaim for decades, serving as a muse (and sometimes punching bag) for the likes of Andy Warhol, Joe Brainard, Gary Panter, Matt Groening, and more. This collection of Bushmiller?s Nancy brings together a selection from the beloved Kitchen Sink Press editions of Nancy strips, including How Sluggo Survives! and Nancy Eats Food, as well as a number of newly selected cartoons. Together, this wide-ranging collection offers a chance for readers to experience the full range of Bushmiller?s absurd humor and unexpected visual delights. As Nancy once said: ?Anything can happen in a comic strip!?


Author: Ernie Bushmiller
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publication Date: May 14, 2024
Number of Pages: 149 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1681378361
ISBN-13: 9781681378367
 

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