Tags: Comic Strip.
How to Read Nancy is an essay by Mark Newgarden and Paul Karasik originally published in The Best of Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy by Brian Walker (Henry Holt/Comicana 1988). The piece examines the comic strip Nancy focusing on Bushmiller’s use of the comics language in to deliver a gag. Finding correspondences to the minimalist architecture of Mies Van Der Rohe the essay calls Nancy a complex amalgam of formal rules laid out by [its] designer.