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This here's yet another collection of classic NANCY dailies that might seem somewhat too little/late here in the twenties given how not only can you read these vintage strips for free online but also in your daily fishwrap. Maybe I should complain given how at age ten I woulda slaughtered for a book such as this, and although I always did believe that good things come to those who do have the wherewithal to wait unfortunately they HAVE TO WAIT A PRETTY DARN LONG TIME if you ask me. Believe-you-me, old comic strips and the like really made an impact on me back then that just can't be replicated now that I'm in my Golden Lead Years.
Still 'nuff Fantagraphics' NANCY series is back in gear after quite a long spell and like well, I am certainly happy about it as well as somewhat peeved. When these early-fifties comics hit the papers NANCY was well at its height, one that started 'round the mid-forties and ended about the time Ernie Bushmiller was starting to head down the road to Parkinsonsville leaving the cartoon duties to the likes of United Features standby Al Plastino*. Most of these have repeatedly shown up on-line and make me wish that Fantagraphics had jumped over to the late-fifties which was a time when Bushmiller's art was honed to the perfect curve and hair ribbon.
Still wanna (once again) see those early-sixties comics where Nancy meets up with a strange lookalike who has a round nose...the only strip featuring her that I clearly remember's this one where Nancy's sorta double shows her this idiophonic radiator that she can only could bang on when some warmth is needed, but could also play as a musical instrument while doing so!
Well, if you turds buy enough of these books maybe the series will continue and we'll eventually get to these later on and hardly repro'd strips. And while we're at it, let's badger IDW to continue their ARCHIE comic strip series which would be a real gem for all you toilet readers given how these have hardly ever been printed outside their original run!
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*Speaking of Plastino, I'm sure you know that the SUPERGIRL creator and all 'round filler-inner was once assigned to draw a slew of PEANUTS comic strips in case Charles Schulz bolted from United Features or didn't quite make it alive out of his open heart surgery. All of these comics were supposed to have been destroyed but the ones that have survived are pretty snat with an even meaner and rather nasty, violent streak that puts the somewhat "Happiness is a Warm Puppy" tone of the comic in the trash where it should have been! I hope that all of them did survive because they sure would make for a good paperback collection that'll hopefully wash away the memories of what that strip eventually became.
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