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How to Read Nancy
How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels | Paul Karasik, Mark Newgarden
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Everything that you need to know about reading, making, and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden�s groundbreaking work How to Read Nancy ingeniously (…more)
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'How to Read Nancy' by Mark Newgarden and Paul Karasik 👀📚 ⠀

“A maniacally thorough formal analysis of a particular Nancy strip. It shows how much thought goes into assembling the pieces of a ‘simple‘ water-hose gag, and teaches you all you really need to know about comics. Bushmiller started out as a puzzle-maker, and no wonder. All the pieces matter.”

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