EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW I LEARNED...

EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM NANCY compiled by Kevin McDonough (Pharos: $6.95; 128 pp . ). Although Andy Warhol and Bill (Zippy the Pinhead) Griffith have praised its campy charms, Ernie Bushmiller’s “Nancy� was probably the most crashingly unfunny strip in the history of the comics. McDonough has appended dumb little homilies to the individual strips, as if to suggest Bushmiller was a New Age guru, rather than a marginally talented artist who thumbed through the Sears catalogue for inspiration. Readers unfamiliar with the original “Nancy� will wonder how its stiff drawings and lame gags could generate the loyal following it had during the ‘50s and ‘60s.