A forthcoming biography by Bill Griffith follows Ernie Bushmiller, the creator of one of America’s most ubiquitous cartoon characters, through his transformation from a teen copy boy to a successful cartoonist.
There are movies about filmmaking, and novels about professors of literature, but there aren’t many comic-book biographies of cartoonists. Enter, who, as the creator of a character called Zippy the Pinhead, is one of the very few contemporary cartoonists who has managed to keep a daily strip going for decades, starting in 1970. The subject of Griffith’s forthcoming biography is spelled out in the title: “.” Bushmiller was the creator of one of America’s most ubiquitous cartoon characters.
Griffith follows Bushmiller, a Bronx native born to immigrants in 1905, through his transformation from a teen-age copy boy to a successful cartoonist whose beloved characters engendered their own world. Griffith draws Bushmiller’s life in the language of “Nancy”: in clean lines, equal-size panels, and short bursts of dialogue, painting a portrait of a superstar cartoonist during an era of syndicated comics and widespread readership when virtually everyone, young and old, read the paper.
; an absurdist who strove, daily, with meditative devotion, to get the gag down in the fewest strokes possible. We spoke to Griffith about what led him to want to inhabit another cartoonist’s style and skin.My first exposure to Nancy was in the funny pages of the Sunday newspaper delivered to my house in Brooklyn in the late nineteen-forties. I remember feeling drawn not to the art or the humor of the strips but to its lettering. Since I was just learning to read, “Nancy” seemed user-friendly.
Before I started to research “Three Rocks,” I will confess to assuming that Ernie Bushmiller was a man of average intelligence, with a conventional level of sophistication. I figured he was probably unaware of, or uninterested in, the larger world of art and comics. I was quickly disabused of this notion once I began to have lengthy talks with Ernie’s former “right-hand man” and neighbor, Jim Carlsson, still alive and well and living just a few hours from me, in Connecticut.
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