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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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