Bums, Beatniks and Hippies, Artists and Con Artists (Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy Series)

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Summary: Simply put: An achievement!
Review: I never liked Nancy as a kid. It was too dumb and corny. Nonetheless, I always read it. Why did I read it? I didn't know. But now I do--it was Nancy's unique combination of precise drawing style and dumbass sight gags. "Bums, Beatnicks, and Hippies, Artists and Con Artists" has these qualities in spades. After reading this volume, one will conclude that all hippies carry acoustic guitars and wear Roman sandles, all artists have a goatee and wear a beret, and bums sport a uniform whisker stubble on their chin and a two-bit cigar in their mouth. (And, brother, are these hobos funny. I laughed for a week.)

Huzzah for Ernie Bushmiller! He's created a strip more bizarre than anything found in a punk fanzine or scrawled on a bathroom wall