The limited run of Ernie Bushmiller Nancy strips available from GoComics appears to be no more. August 31, 2020, also known as April 21, 1955, was the last new/old strip. The reruns ended with Spike knocking out Sluggo again.
“In two minutes I’ll be flat on my back again as usual,” Sluggo says to himself. Could that be a comment on the nature of reruns themselves?
And Nancy is nowhere to be seen in this (apparently) final rerun. Could that be a comment on the disappearance of the strip itself from GoComics’s offerings?
No, and no. I doubt that anyone at GoComics was overthinking it.
A diehard Nancy fan will have to be content with Fantagraphics three volumes of Nancy, only one of which appears to be in print.
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Don’t forget (as I did this morning) Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden’s How to Read “Nancy.”
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September 7: Nancy is back.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Goodbye to old Nancy
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Hello, Michael:
You're probably familiar with this -- it was expanded into a book 2-3 years ago -- but always worth reisiting. The parsing of a single strip is brilliant, imo:
http://www.laffpix.com/howtoreadnancy.pdf
I don’t know where my reply to your comment went, E. (It’s the general danger of trying to comment by phone.) Thanks for the reminder — I’m a fan of that PDF and the book that followed (which turns up in a couple of posts), and I added a link to this post.
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