Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Joe Brainard, Nancy Collages (1963)



Nancy Collgaes by Joe Brainard.

In 1963 poet and artist Brainard began cutting up Ernie Bushmiller's classic Nancy into new assemblages, recombining and detourning the comics into profane, looking-glass versions of themselves. Brainard was one of the first to incorporate comics and appropriation into a large part of his artistic practice. (He also adapted his friends' poetry into comics form in his C Comics magazine, but those will have to wait until 1964.)

 

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Bernie Krigstein, Master Race (1955)

  "Master Race" by Al Feldstein and Bernie Krigstein, 1955.