Nancy is Happy: The Complete Dailies 1942-1945 (NANCY GN COMPLETE DAILIES) - Softcover

Bushmiller, Ernie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606993607 ISBN 13: 9781606993606

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2012

Synopsis

• Nancy joins Peanuts and Popeye at Fantagraphics! Nancy Volume 1, the first in an ongoing series, collects every daily strip of Ernie Bushmiller's hyper-stylized, nearly abstract comic from 1942-1945 in a fat, square format (designed by the award-winning Jacob Covey). It includes a biography of Bushmiller and many more extras. The zen-like Nancy is the distillation of a newspaper comic strip, so much so that it illustrates the "comic strip" entry in the American Heritage Dictionary.

About this title

About the Author:

Ernie Bushmiller (1905-1982) inherited the glamour-girl Fritzi Ritz strip in 1925. But Fritzi’s niece Nancy, introduced in 1933, soon began to dominate, and in 1938 the strip officially became nancy. Bushmiller would continue to write and draw it until his death, winning the Reuben Award for best comic strip in 1976.

Daniel Clowes is a celebrated graphic novelist, Academy-Award nominated screenwriter, and frequent cover artist for the New Yorker. He lives in Oakland, CA. He is a multi-Harvey, Eisner, and Ignatz Award winner, and his papers were recently acquired by the University of Chicago library.

From Bookforum:

Nancy Is Happy marks the initial installment of the first-ever comprehensive reprinting of Bushmiller's peak period (1943-59). By this point, Bushmiller had honed the strip down to a kind of minimalist masterpiece: The blocky depiction of his characters masterfully belies the archly complex composition and execution of his gags. —Ben Schwartz

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1606993607
• ISBN 13: 9781606993606
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432