The Comics Bureau

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.