A funny thing happened on the way to comic-strip immortality. For many years, Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy , with its odd-looking, squat heroine, nearly abstract art, and often super-corny gags, was perceived as the stodgiest, squarest comic strip in the world. Popular with newspaper readers, true -- but definitely not a strip embraced by comic-strip connoisseurs, like Krazy Kat, Dick Tracy or Terry and the Pirates . But then those connoisseurs took a...
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