Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for March 23, 2022

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    Gent  over 2 years ago

    Sluggo is hit!

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    angelolady Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Clever.

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    Susan00100  over 2 years ago

    You forgot the lit fuse, Sluggo.

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    Sharkybill  over 2 years ago

    Dat’s as real as it gets!

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    WLG12037  over 2 years ago

    Dat hoit!

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    Sir Marcie  over 2 years ago

    Bushmiller was, literally and figuratively, hitting it out of the park in these 1949 comics. So many of them are little moments of comics perfection.

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    Zebrastripes  over 2 years ago

    What chances??? Dat poor Sluggo always gets it…

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    billyk75  over 2 years ago

    Dat real enough?

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    Dr. Quatermass  over 2 years ago

    Sluggo finally sees the Pleiades! (As an astronomy geek, I couldn’t resist such an esoteric joke. Sorry, most of you probably have to look it up.)

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    countoftowergrove  over 2 years ago

    Painting theme two days running!

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    brklnbern  over 2 years ago

    Never happen in real life.

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    tims145  over 2 years ago

    Sluggo ne rit (pas)!

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    Kip Williams  over 2 years ago

    Sluggo’s hoist on his own petard. He can’t believe it’s happening, because from where he’s standing, the ball’s just coming out at a weird angle.

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    Auntie Clockwise  over 2 years ago

    It’s the geometries of Bushiller’s drawing hands that have kept me a student Bushiller of the work for a very long time.

    For those with interests in the relations of geometry to language, panel #3 of today’s strip is a brilliant display of seven stars, seven floating lines, all with Bushillers geometric dynamic linking all of the four frames in sequence, a forward and a back, a pattern of back and a forward pattern. That pattern is not euclidean geometry, but close enough to become transparent to the figure/ground setups.

    Up and out from some of the resonated patterns are key patterns used in Euclidean geometry.

    I frequently applaud Bushiller’s use of geometries, both whole and broken versions.

    The geometries used in all four panels have a dynamic thrust-to-the-right shape, a thrust that can go either way, backward to the left, dynamically, and then forward to the right, or whatever possible range of exchange held positions can exist can become estimate, where permutations can become calculated.

    The panel shows a strip where the extremities of fiction reside with an intense emphasis on contrasting geometric patterns, such as an alternating pattern of small and large in scale areas.

    The strip is a semiotic masterpiece, in my humble opinion.

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    rgcviper  over 2 years ago

    (Panel 4): How ’bout now?

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    Lucy Rocks  over 2 years ago

    Now it’s cooler. A “3-D” painting!

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