Nancy ( John Stanley Library )

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In 1957, as Stanley was ending his long run writing Little Lulu, he began work on the comic-book incarnation of an even better-known moppet, the star of Ernie Bushmillers newspaper strip, Nancy. In Stanleys hands, Nancylittle more than a joke-delivery device for Bushmillerbecomes a feisty lass much like Lulu. The supporting characters also have analogues in Lulu. Sluggo is a slender but poor Tubby, pesky neighbor kid Pee Wee is Nancys Alvin, and the bully Spike is a one-boy West Side Gang. Stanleys Nancy lacks the appeal of his Lulu, though, largely because of Gormleys pedestrian art (which does, however, evoke Bushmillers brutally unadorned approach). Its not surprising that the liveliest stories involve a new character Stanley created, the eerie protogoth Oona Goosepimple, who lives in a haunted house with her Addams Familylike clan. Stanleys Nancy isnt as lively as the original comic books hed soon create for Dell Comics (e.g., Melvin Monster), but what it lacks in cartooning verve it partially makes up for in quiet charm.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)