When it’s rainy outside and you have nothing to do, why not play Five Card Nancy. This is an odd little game, from an idea from comic’s historian Scott McCloud.
It’s a hard to explain game, so why try when I can just quote some rules that Mr. McCloud has on his site.
Why Nancy?
Ernie Bushmiller’s comic strip “Nancy” is a landmark achievement: A Comic so simply drawn it can be reduced to the size of a postage stamp and still be legible; an approach so formulaic as to become the very definition of the “gag-strip”;…
…A Nancy panel is an irreduceable concept, an atom, and the comic strip is a molecule. With 5-Card Nancy we create new molecules out of Ernie’s atoms.
I can say that this on-line game is a neat way at experimenting at sequential story telling. 741.5 comics has some other interesting on-line strips as well as other essays and experiments.
