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 As the widest-ranging cartoon chronicler of American absurdity in our time, Bill Griffith has topped himself.
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 strip--the perfect avatar for Griffith to expand upon his philosophy of creating comics..
The title Three Rocks refers to the trope of Three hemispherical rocks often seen in a Bushmiller landscape--just enough to communicate environment to the reader.
Nancy is hailed as the perfect comic strip by fans and cartoonists alike.
When Bushmiller died in 1982, Nancy was running in almost 900 daily newspapers--a number few syndicated cartoonists ever achieve.
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 .
But this graphic novel is about more than a single comic book artist. -- Chris Ware From Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Nobody\'s Fool , comes Three Rocks , a biography of cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller, creator of the iconic comic strip Nancy .
Three Rocks is amazing! -- Emil Ferris A page-turning, standard-setting, must-have work of biographical art.
As it never fails to do, Griffith\'s brilliance and consummate drawing chops shine through.
It\'s always inspiring and engrossing.
This is an instant comic-strip classic! -- Matt Groening For many years, I\'ve devoured Bill Griffith\'s work.
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 As the widest-ranging cartoon chronicler of American absurdity in our time, Bill Griffith has topped himself
