Joe Brainard: The Nancy Book

From 1963 to 1978, Joe Brainard created more than 100 artworks that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into a variety of astonishing situations. The Nancy Book is the first collection of Brainard's Nancy texts, drawings, collages and paintings, with full page reproductions of more than 50 works, several of which have never been exhibited or published before.
"Limited edition: a hand-pulled photo-lithograph of Joe Brainard's mixed media collage Untitled (Nancy with gun) has been released in a numbered edition of 100, stamped by the estate of Joe Brainard. The print is inside a portfolio and slip-cased with this edition"--Title page verso.
There is a playfulness and joy that is impossible to deny in these pieces, and a deep satisfaction in watching Brainard create his personal iconography from elements at hand.--Matt Carney "The Improbable "