The three rocks were an iconic Bushmiller touch. There was a whole thing about his explanation of why three is the right choice, over two or four, say.
When Bill Griffith made a graphic-novel bio of Bushmiller, his title was Three Rocks.
The formation of three rocks was a frequent device in the original Nancy strip, just enough detail for a deliberately uncluttered panel. Bill Griffith made it one of Zippy the Pinhead’s pop culture fixations, and as serious Nancy fandom grew the three rocks came to symbolize cartoonist Bushmiller’s style, like Hirschfeld’s hidden “Ninas” and George Booth’s ever-present dogs and cats.
I was going to make a similar comment, and the fact Bill Griffith would joke about it in his Zippy comic. I would have been the first commenter, too, except for the furschlinger WordPress. Every time I try to make a comment, it doesn’t recognize my password. I do a password refresh, and if I try to reuse one of the previous passwords, it recognizes it has been used before, so I create a new password. And the next time I try to login, it doesn’t recognize THAT password. AAAaaarrrgggghhhhh!!
@guero, I have evolved an elaborate sequence of steps that lets me log in to WordPress. (Click the button, in the popup enter user name and password, click OK, then when it prompts you for that same info a second time, close the popup and in the main CIDU window click the button again.)
Thanks, but I don’t get a second prompt, just an invalid password message (usually). This time (yes, I am re-entering my reply from a first attempt) it logged me into WordPress in a new tab, with a blank page, without going back to CIDU.
Since I now may be logged into WordPress, we will see if this replay works.
To me – the three rocks are something that I will not notice when walking and will trip over. But I am rather a klutz – I once tore my left ankle falling off a curb.
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I have seen waaaay too many pregnant mommy belly cakes to think this just about 3 people
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The three rocks were an iconic Bushmiller touch. There was a whole thing about his explanation of why three is the right choice, over two or four, say.
When Bill Griffith made a graphic-novel bio of Bushmiller, his title was Three Rocks.
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The formation of three rocks was a frequent device in the original Nancy strip, just enough detail for a deliberately uncluttered panel. Bill Griffith made it one of Zippy the Pinhead’s pop culture fixations, and as serious Nancy fandom grew the three rocks came to symbolize cartoonist Bushmiller’s style, like Hirschfeld’s hidden “Ninas” and George Booth’s ever-present dogs and cats.
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I was going to make a similar comment, and the fact Bill Griffith would joke about it in his Zippy comic. I would have been the first commenter, too, except for the furschlinger WordPress. Every time I try to make a comment, it doesn’t recognize my password. I do a password refresh, and if I try to reuse one of the previous passwords, it recognizes it has been used before, so I create a new password. And the next time I try to login, it doesn’t recognize THAT password. AAAaaarrrgggghhhhh!!
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guero – sounds like a problem Nancy herself would have encountered.
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@guero, I have evolved an elaborate sequence of steps that lets me log in to WordPress. (Click the button, in the popup enter user name and password, click OK, then when it prompts you for that same info a second time, close the popup and in the main CIDU window click the button again.)
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Thanks, but I don’t get a second prompt, just an invalid password message (usually). This time (yes, I am re-entering my reply from a first attempt) it logged me into WordPress in a new tab, with a blank page, without going back to CIDU.
Since I now may be logged into WordPress, we will see if this replay works.
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It worked; I still had to login, but it accepted my password. Maybe I just have not been squinting properly in the past to appease the computer gods.
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Olivia Jaimes did a series with the Cult of 3 Rocks.
Even Gilchrist sent Nancy to a town called Three Rocks.
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To me – the three rocks are something that I will not notice when walking and will trip over. But I am rather a klutz – I once tore my left ankle falling off a curb.
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Here a current Zippy references the three rocks.
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