How to read Nancy : the elements of comics in three easy panels

How to read Nancy : the elements of comics in three easy panels / [conceived and written by] Paul Karasik, Mark Newgarden ; [foreword by Jerry Lewis].

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 isolates the separate building blocks of the languag...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karasik, Paul
Corporate Author: Universal Press Syndicate
Other Authors: Newgarden, Mark, Lewis, Jerry, 1926-2017, Bushmiller, Ernie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, Inc., [2017]
Edition:First Fantagraphics Books edition
Subjects:
Nancy > (Fictitious character)
Comic books, strips, etc > Technique.
The Dr. Mark D. Nevins '86 Collection for the Study of Comics and Graphic Novels
Gift of Mark D. Nevins, Ph.D. (Class of 1986)
Comics (Graphic works)
Holy Cross Note:"December, 2017" -- Preliminary page.
Signed by the authors.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Jerry Lewis
  • An introduction / James Elkins
  • Preamble
  • "How to read Nancy?"
  • The strip. August 8, 1959
  • The script. The gag
  • The last panel
  • Dialogue
  • Balloon placement
  • The cast. Sluggo
  • Nancy
  • The extras
  • Nancy AND Sluggo
  • Ernie Bushmiller
  • Props & special effects. The water gun
  • The pistol grip nozzle
  • The leaky spigot
  • The hose
  • Costumes. Strip uniforms
  • The cowboy outfit
  • Production design. The horizon line
  • Background
  • The fence
  • The house
  • Forces of nature
  • Staging. Action
  • Nancy and the fence
  • Second panel shifts
  • Performance. Character design
  • Gesture
  • Facial expression
  • Lines of vision
  • The cartoonist's eye. Composition
  • Spotting blacks
  • Negative space
  • Rhythm
  • The cartoonist's hand. The inked line
  • Lettering
  • Balloon design
  • The modified silhouette
  • Motion lines
  • Details, details, details. Surface pattern
  • Punctuation
  • Type
  • The reader. The panel gutters
  • Panel size
  • The fourth panel
  • The strip (again). August 8, 1959: drawing some conclusions
  • Appendices. Inspiration
  • Further contexts
  • Single panel gag
  • "Too many words"
  • Enter Sluggo
  • "Hey! Where have I seen that gag before?"
  • Architecture
  • Tableaux vivants
  • Aunt Fritzi's other relatives
  • Luncheon of the boating party
  • Sunday strategies
  • Black ink
  • Degeneration gap
  • Unfinished business
  • Assistants
  • Ben day and Ben-day
  • How they read Nancy
  • How to/how not to
  • Do it yourself!

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