EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW I LEARNED...

EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM NANCY compiled by Kevin McDonough (Pharos: $6.95; 128 pp . ). Although Andy Warhol and Bill (Zippy the Pinhead) Griffith have praised its campy charms, Ernie Bushmiller’s “Nancy” was probably the most crashingly unfunny strip in the history of the comics. McDonough has appended dumb little homilies to the individual strips, as if to suggest Bushmiller was a New Age guru, rather than a marginally talented artist who thumbed through the Sears catalogue for inspiration. Readers unfamiliar with the original “Nancy” will wonder how its stiff drawings and lame gags could generate the loyal following it had during the ‘50s and ‘60s.