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Three rocks The story of ernie bushmiller: the man who created nancy.
- Title
- Three rocks [electronic resource] : The story of ernie bushmiller: the man who created nancy. Bill Griffith.
- Author
- Griffith, Bill.
- Publication
- 2023.
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- OverDrive, Inc., distributor
- Description
- 1 online resource
- Summary
- From Bill Griffith, the acclaimed creator of Zippy the Pinhead , comes a history of comics as told through the life story of Ernie Bushmiller and his iconic comic strip Nancy âAs the widest-ranging cartoon chronicler of American absurdity in our time, Bill Griffith has topped himself. This is an instant comic-strip classic!â â Matt Groening  âFor many years, Iâve devoured Bill Griffithâs work. Itâs always inspiring and engrossing. As it never fails to do, Griffithâs brilliance and consummate drawing chops shine through. Three Rocks is amazing!â â Emil Ferris  âA page-turning, standard-setting, must-have work of biographical art.â â Chris Ware  From Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Nobodyâs Fool , comes Three Rocks , a biography of cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller, creator of the iconic comic strip Nancy . But this graphic novel is about more than a single comic book artist. It is the story of this American art form, tracing its inception in 1895 with the Yellow Kid , the creation of Nancy in 1933, and all the strips that followed, including Peanuts and The Far Side . When Bushmiller died in 1982, Nancy was running in almost 900 daily newspapersâa number few syndicated cartoonists ever achieve.  Nancy is hailed as the âperfectâ comic strip by fans and cartoonists alike. The title Three Rocks refers to the trope of three hemispherical rocks often seen in a Bushmiller landscapeâjust enough to communicate environment to the reader. This distillation is exemplary of the iconic, diagrammatic look of Nancy , a comic strip about the nature of what it means to be a comic stripâthe perfect avatar for Griffith to expand upon his philosophy of creating comics.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Reproduction (note)
- Electronic reproduction.
- ISBN
- 9781683359432
- OCLC
- ODN0009612054
- Author
- Griffith, Bill.
- Title
- Three rocks [electronic resource] : The story of ernie bushmiller: the man who created nancy. Bill Griffith.
- Imprint
- 2023.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Reproduction
- Electronic reproduction. New York : Abrams ComicArts, 2023. Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser.
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- OverDrive, Inc., distributor
- Other Form:
- Original 9781419745904
- Branch Call Number
- eNYPL BOOK