THE GREATEST NANCY PANEL EVER DRAWN
BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
posted by Jim Woodring at 8:12 AM
Friday, July 21, 2006
About Me
- Name: Jim Woodring
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
I was born in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California and enjoyed an exciting childhood full of poetry and paroniria among the snakes, rats and tarantulas of that enchanted realm. I eventually grew into an inquisitive bearlike man who has had three exciting careers; garbage collector, merry-go-round-operator and cartoonist. Some of my work is collected in THE BOOK OF JIM, THE FRANK BOOK and SEEING THINGS (all published by Fantagraphics) and in various toys, fabrics, prints and urban legends. Thank you for your interest.
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Floating or falling? Either way, he doesn't give a Whoopie John Wilfahrt, and that's how I'd like to remember Sluggo forever. You won the hand of Three Card Nancy in one card.
--MC
No joke to "get" in the comic sense, which is part of the appeal. That along with the surreal-ness of the panel, made stranger by pulling it from its context. It's an old cartoon, so the surrealism isn't expected. It sort of looks like a Magritte with the vertical stacking of cartoon balloon, Sluggo, and shadow.
I don't know, really, but I agree with everyone .. it's a pretty cool panel.
Just beautiful! I want Bushmiller bushes to be real. They might even be better than the Three Rocks.
Dane
If you dig around Scott McCloud's web site, you can find rules for "Five Card Nancy."
It's a game you play with cards made from random panels cut out from books of collected Nancy strips.
I love the hiding house.
This is a great Sluggo panel!
Good old Sluggo
who hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz
Sluggo
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war
To think that that genius left the old family business of milling bushes and became a big city Sluggosmith! I love Nancy like I loves my morning whiskey!
My bicycle is named 'bSluggo'.
The 'b' is silent.
Did I ever say it? I am the son of Sluggo, who carelessly wasted the best of his dew kissed days, and who looked neither forward nor back, choosing instead to lovingly know each day platonically and lay down with every dusk and know it carnally.
Sluggo, whose gaze fell when they passed the hat. Sluggo, for whom every cooling pie was a gift from God. Sluggo, the enemy of effort, the opposite of opposition.
No thy self.
That's gonna be my new tattoo.
I don't even wanna no what the rest of the strip looks like.
I'm with Vaklam. That's make a bitchin' tattoo.
I don't get it...
"I want this on a T-shirt" Mark Frauenfelder - count me in too.
it's everything mark trail ever wanted to be, but could simply not obtain
PLEASE someone make this into a t-shirt!
My understanding is that it is a representation of Sluggo's denial while he is incarcerated for 25 to life on a "Three Strikes" conviction for stealing an apple.
I really don't understand, I am interested. Someone please help?
email: stuckatone@gmail.com
Thanks!
I just got the tshirts in today, white on black (with one XL white on royal blue). Email me for more info. Jim, yours is on its way :)
Here's my favorite Bushmiller panel of all time- we keep a print of it near the phone in the living room.
..... I don't get it. Somebody enlighten me. All I see is a little kid floating and saying 'no'. Is there an in-joke I'm missing or something?
Surrealism isn't expected in old cartoons? Try Little Nemo, The Upside Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo, Polly and Her Pals, Krazy Kat, The Nut Brothers (Ches and Wol), and even Dick Tracy, for corn sakes, and I know I'm leaving stuff out.
Years ago, my wife shelled out $40 to get me an original Nancy Sunday page from 1943. Ernie changed a panel, gluing the new one over the old one.
I have a Nancy panel nobody but Ernie has ever seen.
It's a zen thing.
cowboydog
I so used to take the "stone groove" comix for granted ... Sluggo .. Chilly ... Lulu ... Krazy Kat ... follow with a 'Lone Ranger' 78 chaser ....
Dew-kissed indeed, those halcyon days of yore...
That's pretty cool.
I've never read this comic before or anything, and I really have no clue what I'm talking about, but this is how I take it:
"I am content. I need nothing, I will do nothing, I am fine as I am."
But that's just me.
Excellent find.
Maybe it's like Neo in the matrix, saying 'No' to the bullets. In this case, 'No' to falling.
This is comic-strip Xanax. Thanks for posting it. I used to read Nancy comics as a wee one during summers at the lake. I'd get books of them at the bait shop for maybe 20 cents apiece. This panel reminds me of evenings up on the top bunk with Nancy, Richie Rich, and Lulu--whippoorwills singing, crickets chirping, and endless boxes of Mallomars.
how sublime...
Sluggo = licking the chocolates so's nobody else'd want 'em.
Sluggo = The Not Charlie Brown
Sluggo = Lazyman's sensei
Sluggo = Mebbe the child-god progeny out of Happy Hooligan, by way of "The People Upstairs" after a trip thru/around/sideways/under Befuddle Hall.
Sluggo = all those and more, the boy's boy
SPOON BOY: Your spoon does not bend because it is just that, a spoon. Mine bends because there is no spoon, just my mind.
Neo watches as it curls into a knot.
SPOON BOY: Link yourself to the spoon. Become the spoon and bend yourself. Neo nods, again holding up his spoon.
NEO: There is no spoon. Right.
All this gravity is getting me down.
I have one of Nancy doing almost the same thing... but she looks pissed off!
http://crotchwizard.blogspot.com/2006/08/nancy-and-sluggo.html
+ there are some Nancy and Sluggo Hippie and Beatnik comics there too!
the delicious flavour of this panel is made all the more savoury by the cries of "I don't get it" in the comments below. mmmmmm.......
I love it - cut me some of THAT slack! and it's from Apr -17, my birthday!!!
I'm a boingboing johnny-come-lately and since they tell me this is cool, I guess it must be cool then.
Off to mod my case and hack my Ipod. L8R!
This is teriffic! I love it!!! Who knew the great JW would be a Nancy fan? I'd like that ona Shirt as wel l. Who wouldnt?
A mention on BoingBoing! Cool! Congratulations, Jim, Ernie, Sluggo.
You can't fall of the mountain.
the tattoo is done.
you can find it here
Really, what does it mean? What is so great about it? Anyone care to answer? I can't live without knowing what he is saying "no" to and why he is hovering so effortlessly. HELP!!!
April 17th is my birthday!
Colorized and ready to wear...
http://www.cafepress.com/westergaard
Westergaard! Why'd ya' have to go ruin it by colorizing them?
Who are you, Ted Turner?
I love this, it seems to heal a weird memory:
I was around 5 years old, sick in bed with a high fever. I was so sick that I was hallucinating... At the foot of my bed, a tiny Nancy was chasing a tiny Sluggo (or maybe Sluggo was chasing Nancy, it's been so long I can't remember now) across my blanket with a stick, intent on giving a serious beating. I screamed, and my parents came running, but I never could really quite explain to them what had terrified me.
I'm wearing the T-shirt as I type this, and I gotta tell ya, it's a real attention-getter. And for the most part, it completely puzzles the hell out of people.
My own read is that Sluggo has reached the perfect state of no-effort, the satori-like denial of the "small mind" and all of the suffering that comes with it. But I would be very, very surprised if that's what Ernie Bushmiller actually meant when he penned it.
My other interpretation is that it's the comic equivalent of a koan -- something designed to tie our rational mind in knots so that we can glimpse enlightenment.
If it's not one of those two, I have no frigging idea what it is.
Put me on the list of those who would, just out of curiosity, like to see the original strip. I do, however, retain the right to interpret it however I damn well please.
I don't know where to view it, but the concept was a clear plastic hammock. I think it was 3 panels, the first Nancy approaches and you see the trees in perspective with Sluggo floating between; Nancy asks something about levitation lessons. Sluggo says no in the second panel, and in the third you can see the tethers attatched to the trees, and Sluggo says "Plastic hammock".
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We're getting too close. They're in a panic, you can tell.
... isn't it great how the speech balloon disappearing above and the house disappearing below seem to make Sluggo float just that li'l bit nicer?
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Sluggo already responded to the spammers.
Actually, all that spam just makes Sluggo float higher...
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