5-Card Nancy

It, apparently, is a game, a card-like game, invented by Scott McCloud, to be played with panels of a comic strip, in this case, 5-Card Nancy.

Scott explains:

"Find a reprint book of 'Nancy' comic strips. (Try here). Photocopy a good portion of the book onto white card-stock (with permission of course), and cut up the copies so that you end up with lots of small rectangles of paper, each containing only one 'Nancy' panel...Each player picks one card from their hand which they think would make a good “next panel” and places it to the right ofthe panel(s) already on the table. A judge or judges (usually your opponents) will decide if your choice is a good next panel. If it’s judged worthy, the panel stays. If it’s rejected, you must take the panel back."

Hmm. Given these rules, I suppose one could play, in like manner, 5 Card Blondie, 7 Card Mighty Mouse, or even 3 Card Peanuts. Unless there's some peculiar reason for the Nancy-ness. So, why Nancy? According to the author: "Ernie Bushmiller's comic strip 'Nancy' is a landmark achievement: A Comic so simply drawn it can be reduced to the size of a postage stamp and still be legible; an approach so formulaic as to become the very definition of the 'gag-strip;' a sense of humor so obscure, so mute, so without malice as to allow faithful readers to march through whole decades of art and story without ever once cracking a smile."

For more about Nancy, try, perhaps, Wikipedia


via Michael Weidenbach, Funfinder