Nancy Drew drawn anew.(Arts and Lifestyle)

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 20050609
Author:Herbert, Rosemary

Byline: Rosemary Herbert

"Nancy Drew, Girl Detective: The Demon of River Heights" by Stefan Petrucha and Sho Murase, based on the series by Carolyn Keene (Papercutz, $7.95)

Nancy Drew may have turned 75, but, at least in this new graphic novel, she's no wrinkled old lady.

Updating the character who was chiefly created by syndicate owner Edward Stratemeyer and developed by Mildred Wirt Benson (one of the writers who wrote under the pen name Carolyn Keene), writer Stefan Petrucha and artist Sho Murase portray Nancy as a big-eyed babe with boobs, brains - and chums who ...

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