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

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Information & Library Science Library — Juvenile Folio

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J741.5 Karasik
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Available

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After How To Read Nancy , you'll never read a comic strip the sameway again! Everything that you will ever need to know about reading,making, or understanding comics can be found in the three panels of a singlecomic strip published on August 8, 1959: Nancy , by Ernie Bushmiller. PaulKarasik and Mark Newgarden expand their 1988 cult-classic essay, "How To ReadNancy" into a book-length deconstruction that gets down to the practical andnuanced concerns of comics language with a minimal amount of hyperbole and amaximum amount of entertainment. Each aspect of comics syntax (dialogueballoons, panel size, character design, etc.) is dissected to reveal the hiddenarmature. There has never been a book that has taken such a direct approach tocomics craftsmanship. And there has never been a book that looks like How ToRead Nancy . The design is simultaneously simple and sophisticated - andgroundbreaking. After being introduced to this particular Nancy strip (aswell as definitively versed in the Bushmiller gestalt) the reader is presentedwith a series of double-page spreads of the same strip - but bit by bit over thecourse of the book each element of the strip is stripped away until all of thesecret truths of comics are finally unveiled for the eye to behold.

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