"How to Read Nancy" is an essay by Mark Newgarden and Paul Karasik, originally published in The Best of Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy by Brian Walker (Henry Holt/Comicana, 1988). The piece examines the comic strip Nancy, focusing on Bushmiller's use of the comics language to deliver a gag. Finding correspondences to the minimalist architecture of Mies van der Rohe, the essay calls Nancy "a complex amalgam of formal rules laid out by [its] designer." Source: Wikipedia (en)