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Kevin Huizenga writes up a thoughtful post on Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy, Groensteens Iconic Solidarity and Typography.
Drawing Nancy and Sluggo almost exactly the same each time, it’s like he’s making them into a font, like he’s writing “Nancy” in Helvetica. All the drawings of Nancy are transparently Nancy the way a commonly used font will make a word “transparent.” But I think saying that Bushmiller represents the “distilled essence” of comics is like saying Helvetica is the essence of the written alphabet.
Go and read the full post here.
