In his graphic biography “Three Rocks,” Bill Griffith traces the rise of the man who created one of the most beloved comic strip characters of all time.
: “In ‘Nancy,’ Ernie Bushmiller created his own reality, where everything is wholly his and the world as we know it has been reduced to its essentials — there’s a Zen-like mastery of form.”
Those words about the essence of “Nancy” echo throughout Griffith’s brilliant new graphic biography of Bushmiller. “Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy” is a warmhearted artistic exploration of the cartoonist’s life and mind, told entirely inhimself appearing in some panels as a character to genially lead us through Bushmiller’s life and work.
“Three Rocks” offers all the biographical details we need, starting at the beginning: Bushmiller was born in 1905 in the Bronx — nephew to three cops back in Belfast — and became attracted in the ’20s to bustling newsrooms like the New York World, where one of the first Sunday color newspaper comic strips had been published just a quarter-century earlier. There, he came to know a bullpen of artists who brimmed with deadline talent, and soon joined them.
for mass appeal. At the heart of “Three Rocks” is a probing of what made Bushmiller tick. He was preoccupied with thinking up gags that tweak our sense of logic and perspective and reality. In one biographical scene in the book, his wife asks him to pick up a meat grinder; by the time he returns home, he has an idea for a visual joke about the grinder — but absent-mindedly forgets to buy the appliance.
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