{"id":3256,"date":"2009-08-28T17:02:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T22:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2009-08-28T17:09:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T22:09:45","slug":"how-to-read-nancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=3256","title":{"rendered":"How To Read Nancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/howtoreadnancy-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3257\" title=\"howtoreadnancy-1\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/howtoreadnancy-1.jpg\" alt=\"howtoreadnancy-1\" width=\"200\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a>As someone with very little exposure to, and no specific affinity for, Ernie Bushmiller&#8217;s NANCY comic strip, I have to say I really enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laffpix.com\/howtoreadnancy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this essay<\/a> by Mark Newgarden and Paul Karasik. In it the authors outline &#8220;How To Read Nancy&#8221;, which also happens to be <em>why <\/em> to read it, which was far more important to me.<\/p>\n<p>Normally I&#8217;d skip right over this, an article on a website imploring the virtues of a strip that I couldn&#8217;t really give a shit about, but Frank Santoro <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/structure-101.html\" target=\"_blank\">laid down the law<\/a> over on the Comics Comics blog: to discuss the structure of comics on <em>that<\/em> blog you gotta read this essay first, and I&#8217;d hate to be locked out of a smart conversation because I think a comic I haven&#8217;t really read is stupid.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out? More to NANCY than one might think.\u00a0It&#8217;s a strip designed to be read as quickly and easily as possible and is incredibly complex in doing so: on closer inspection it peels back like an onion and lays bare the fundimentals of comics creation. Neat trick. With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/index.php?option=com_myblog&amp;show=NANCY!!!.html&amp;Itemid=113\" target=\"_blank\">Fantagraphics<\/a> about to start publishing omnibus collections of the Ernie Bushmiller NANCY next spring, and a book-format expansion of this essay by Newgarden and Karasik on the way soon, it looks all of us folks interested in the form and structure of comics&#8211;not to mention stupid gags&#8211;are in for a treat.<\/p>\n<p>Go read the essay, and maybe change your mind about NANCY.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone with very little exposure to, and no specific affinity for, Ernie Bushmiller&#8217;s NANCY comic strip, I have to say I really enjoyed this essay by Mark Newgarden and Paul Karasik. In it the authors outline &#8220;How To Read Nancy&#8221;, which also happens to be why to read it, which was far more important &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=3256\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How To Read Nancy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3259,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions\/3259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}