The latest addition to Fantagraphicsa?? award- winning classic comic strip reprint series.A funny thing happened on the way to comic-strip immortality. For many years, Ernie Bushmillera??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 a?? 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 closer look, and began to realize that Bushmillera??s art approached its own kind of cartoon perfection, and those corny gags often achieved a striking zen quality. In its own way, it turned out Nancy was in fact the most iconic comic strip of all. (The American Heritage Dictionary actually uses a Nancy strip to illustrate its entry on a??comic strip.a??) Charter members of the Nancy revival include Art Spiegelman, who published...