Fantagraphics has signed a deal to publish the first 24 years of the only comic strip heroine with existential hair, four years per volume, debuting next spring with the second volume, 1942-1945, as the earlier material is hard to come by. Dan Clowes will write the intro.
Somebody needs to publish a book of Nancy tributes, both written and drawn. Tom Robbins has done both, although I can’t find either essay or drawings online. I remember his Nancy with Medusa Hair, but it’s the essay that rocks and rolls.
Joe Brainard is essential.
Also, Brainard’s If Nancy Was A Da Vinci Sketch and If Nancy Was A Painting By De Kooning:
http://www.glyphjockey.com/2009/08/uncanny-old-gags-series-gary-lee-nova.html