{"id":873,"date":"2009-08-04T16:53:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T23:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/08\/fantagraphics_does_nancy\/"},"modified":"2009-08-04T16:53:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T23:53:05","slug":"fantagraphics_does_nancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/fantagraphics_does_nancy.html","title":{"rendered":"Fantagraphics does Nancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/\">Fantagraphics<\/a> has signed a deal to publish the first 24 years of the only <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nancy_%28comics%29\">comic strip heroine <\/a>with existential hair, four years per volume, debuting next spring with the second volume, <span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\">1942-1945, as the earlier material is hard to come by. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&amp;page=shop.browse&amp;category_id=204&amp;Itemid=62&amp;vmcchk=1&amp;Itemid=62\">Dan Clowes<\/a> will write the intro. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nancydrawvarmint.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/nancydrawvarmint.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"403\" height=\"116\" \/><\/span>Somebody needs to publish a book of Nancy tributes, both written and drawn. Tom Robbins has done both, although I can&#8217;t find either essay or drawings online. I remember his <i>Nancy with Medusa Hair<\/i>, but it&#8217;s the essay that rocks and rolls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/journal\/article.html?id=182198\">Joe Brainard<\/a> is essential.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nancyjoebrainardacid.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/nancyjoebrainardacid.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"306\" height=\"395\" \/><\/span>Also, Brainard&#8217;s <i>If Nancy Was A Da Vinci Sketch<\/i> and <i>If Nancy Was A Painting By De Kooning<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nancyjoebrainardvinci.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/nancyjoebrainardvinci.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"300\" height=\"420\" \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nancyjoebrainardkoon.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/nancyjoebrainardkoon.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"317\" height=\"416\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantagraphics has signed a deal to publish the first 24 years of the only comic strip heroine with existential hair, four years per volume, debuting next spring with the second volume, 1942-1945, as the earlier material is hard to come by. Dan Clowes will write the intro. Somebody needs to publish a book of Nancy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}