Ernie Bushmiller's "Nancy": C/D?

ROLLO!

Gary Groth: What's your position on Ernie Bushmiller?

Clowes: I'm pro-Bushmiller. I mean, I don't like to get up on my soapbox and pontificate about Bushmiller as much as some of these people because I think that defeats the whole purpose. But to me, Nancy had an amazing atmosphere to it that I found kind of scary and off-putting, and really interesting. So yeah, I love Bushmiller, and this new guy who does Nancy should be shot.

G: For betraying the Bushmiller ethos?

C: Yeah, that's just awful dreck.

sums up the then and now (but not the normalizer) quite well

oh, but yeah, Bushmiller was the coolest.

ihttp://www.gilchriststudios.com/nancy/celeb2/10b.gif

Okay, should I buy this?
http://cgi.ebay.com/COMIC-STRIP-NANCY-DOLL_W0QQitemZ140281671292QQihZ004QQcategoryZ723QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

cuz it's kinda awesome.

That's freaking Little Lulu.

My first thought too, Abbott.
But the "Field Enterprises" mark is the folks what own the Nancy trademark.

Perhaps this less humanized version will strike truer to home.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-40s-Comic-Strip-Nancy-Doll-Georgene-Averill_W0QQitemZ280285480083QQihZ018QQcategoryZ36549QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

THERE we go. That is the Nancy I would buy.

srsly when did Nancy ever wear Moccasins?

Maybe it's like a Tijuana-style Lulu ripoff, that first one.

I like the weird hydrocephalic Nancy; my gut tells me it's a licensed piece from the strips nuttier period.
Why is there no reprint set of Nancy material? It's certainly as marketable as Pogo.

Even '20s-'30s strips when it was Fritzi Ritz before Nancy spin-off, she didn't look like that.

Now i really want to buy this just to be sure.
But I can hardly justify it.

I have a great Nancy compendium from eBay ($8) that has commentary from Art Spiegelman & others. v. good!

Yeah, Kitchen Sink did a buncha reprints that I would buy used if I could find them at the Strand. You know the whole Griffith "Three Rocks" philosophy, right?

That whole strip is in there.

potential tattoo for when I just don't care anymore:
http://www.rdrop.com/%7Ehalf/Personal/Hobbies/Comics/Nancy/3Rocks.gif

and is AWESOME and true

haha forks I would get that

next tat I have lined up (hopefully as an xmas gift!) is a tat of the old Comics Code of Authority seal of approval

"Art Spiegelman explains how a drawing of three rocks in a background scene was Ernie's way of showing us there were some rocks in the background. It was always three. Why? Because two rocks wouldn't be 'some rocks.' Two rocks would be a pair of rocks. And four rocks was unacceptable because four rocks would indicate 'some rocks' BUT IT WOULD BE ONE ROCK MORE THAN WAS NECESSARY TO CONVEY THE IDEA OF 'SOME ROCKS.'"

Okay, a girl with a comic code authority seal gets love forever.

I am thinking my inner arm between pit & right elbow.

Those Kitchen Sink compilations are great. I wish I'd picked up more than the two I have -- they were cheaper than dirt for a while in the mid 90s.

Did that publishing company die? They put out Cages, right?

Denis Kitchen got caught in the speculator bubble-bust, sold out to Kevin Eastman...limbo.

I would think the tramp stamp comics code would be the classy way to go.
All that Kitchen Sink stuff seems to have more or less disappeared from used book stores and comic shops in the city.
I think Tundra did Cages?
Kitchen Sink did fold, yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Sink_Press
A shame, cause they were simply a decade or so ahead of their time.

The Lil' Abner reprints are the most priceless stuff they did; I'm often tempted to blow a shitload of money and buy up a bunch of em.

I am lucky, they have them at my public library.

I know it's not fashionable to like Al Capp so much these days, but boy he could really tell a bigoted, wingnut story!

Fucking Comics.com keeps interrupting their Lil Abner Classics in the middle of storylines!

I know it's not fashionable to like Al Capp so much these days, but boy he could really tell a bigoted, wingnut story!

maybe in the 60's, but I wouldn't call stuff like the Shmoo and the Bald Iggle the products of a bigoted wingnut.

He could also tell hilarious slapstick nonsense story.

And is obv better (in quality, art & bigotry level) than say Katzenjammer Kids or Bringing Up Father.

Katzenjammer Kids never made me anything other than confused and bored.

Nancy, the voice of sanity in 1970

Coming soon.

I liked the floral hipsters joke

From an interview this week with Brian Walker:

GB: As a creator yourself, it must be interesting to track, if you even can, how your scholarship affected your own strips through the years. Is there a thought you have on that subtle dance?

BW: In the late 1980s, I wrote a book about Ernie Bushmiller’s “Nancy.” I had always looked down on this strip, convinced that its appeal was limited to children and senior citizens. But after researching Bushmiller’s career I developed an appreciation for the deceptively simple and occasional surreal qualities of his work. Ernie’s advice to other cartoonists was, “Dumb it down.”

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgzsoxadc1qfzuo6o1_500.png

(via new favorite thing http://nancypanels.tumblr.com/)

I have a Nancy book now, by the way. I got it off ebay. Has anyone bought the Fantagraphics books?

thanks for the great tumblr link donna!

i mean

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq04soTkZi1qfzuo6o1_500.png

oh god i remember that blonde lady!

ay yi yi

the recent collection of john stanley's 'nancy' comics is well worth checking out. stanley essentially treats nancy and sluggo as if they were weirdly drawn versions of lulu and tubby, which makes for a mildly trippy read.

First collection of daily strips from Fantagraphics is finally out!

Nancy's still got shades of that Fritzi Ritz look in it

Also I can't believe I knocked Bringing Up Father on this thread. WTF, me.

The WW2 setting of these strips means a lot of Nazi refs that feel startling & incongruous in the weird nowhere USA of Nancy

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg826/scaled.php?server=826&filename=img2512u.jpg&res=medium

That's pretty great. I can't wait until I have money again so I can start splurging on this new wave of Fanta reprints (reeeeeeeeeeally want that Uncle Scrooge stuff).

xpost Okay for a second I thought Hitler was standing there in front of a bush that was in turn in front of the fence.

Visually confusing mixture of a sharp-hooked speech bubble and a scallop-edged thought bubble there.

the book design on the new reprint is awesome btw

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/images/features/If_Nancy_Had_an_Afro.gif

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/jimwoodring/sluggo.jpg

http://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/sluggo-mask_this-isnt-happiness-1004044.jpg

http://www.peteykins.com/sparklepics5/NancyPanel18.jpg

http://www.boingboing.net/filesroot/zensluggo.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldpuaisfFP1qfzuo6o1_400.png

http://rci.rutgers.edu/~jbass/courses/402/images/nancy_invisible_glass.jpg

Nancy is the BEST

I have never really read or looked at Nancy before this morning; I am really into this.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5cfedBOkT1rudptgo1_400.png

Have thought for years about making a Five Card Nancy deck.

http://scottmccloud.com/4-inventions/nancy/index.html

had a crush on the Aunt

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/images/features/If_Nancy_Had_an_Afro.gif
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS9zydTDgs74yEQBA3cduao22k2L4vFgw9dAH64QbPYam9EJKBL

http://donnaalmendrala.name/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/nancy_2.png

I really, really want to see the whole strip the floating "NO" panel is from; does anyone have this?

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/318209_4800893574955_467758796_n.jpg

Okay, this is super cool:

http://theamericanreader.com/the-beckettbushmiller-letters/

O_O

so fuckin' cool!!!!!

Would you consider a strip featuring Fritzi only, and only her mouth visible? Difficult, but could work. Shall consider it more.

http://theamericanreader.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bushmiller_8b.jpg

Hey, wait a minute...

Illustrations by R. Sikoryak
This piece originally appeared in Hermenaut No. 15, 1999

doh! I didn't catch that.

I nabbed it from Tom Hart on twitter and didn't even look for attributions.

Well done regardless.

I wanted it to be true just a little too much.

me too. Would have been a nice companion to the Beckett drives Andre the Giant to school story.

The correspondence of Ernie Bushmiller and Samuel Beckett

d'oh sorry

nancy weirded me out when i was a kid because everyone still looked like they were from the 40s but the strips were about modern things like using fax machines and microwaves.

Then you realized they were just the concert coordinators for local rockabilly festivals and everything made sense.

haha nice.

Nancy weirded me out when I was a kid because it was drawn by a creepy Charlie Daniels fan

woah, hermenaut, AS Hamrah, that takes me back. used to love that shit!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/157756283/vintage-hat-stand-nancy-and-sluggo
somebody here wants this

http://img1.etsystatic.com/018/1/5264915/il_570xN.483531315_to6b.jpg
also that "no" tattoo is fucking perfect and i would think about getting it if someone hadn't already

Web-based 5-Card Nancy!!

http://www.7415comics.com/nancy/

http://i.imgur.com/0ycOS3Y.png

http://i.imgur.com/jnXV1QN.png

http://i.imgur.com/LAnP6SI.png

Yessss! Thanking u Stevie!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/ScreenShot2013-12-16.jpg

http://www.7415comics.com/nancy/panels/7T.jpghttp://www.7415comics.com/nancy/panels/S6.jpghttp://www.7415comics.com/nancy/panels/4T.jpghttp://www.7415comics.com/nancy/panels/G7.jpghttp://www.7415comics.com/nancy/panels/8Z.jpg

http://www.7415comics.com/nancy/panels/CZ.jpghttp://www.7415comics.com/nancy/panels/HQ.jpghttp://www.7415comics.com/nancy/panels/2W.jpghttp://www.7415comics.com/nancy/panels/N4.jpghttp://www.7415comics.com/nancy/panels/SV.jpg

Nancy Classics added to comics.com -- currently at strips from 1955

http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2015/03/silent-penultimate-nancy-panels-by.html
tattoo options

and on the same tip:
http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2012/01/1969-all-of-peanuts-silent-penultimate.html

http://assets.amuniversal.com/408eaec099de0132c820005056a9545d

Man, Nancy is so consistently bizarre and weird and funny; I am surprised how low-brow and stupid it was considered in its time!!

I got that first year Fanta reprint of the complete Nancy & there is defs some filler,
just doing it so many decades there are a lot of standout ones, too.
It does make me look at the comics page differently. Marmaduke is dumb as fuck for example but sometimes it will have composition, or a premise, that would seem avant garde out of context.

The pseudonymous new artist who started last week is pretty great already:

http://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/04/17

lol!

so guy gilchrist is gone? thank christ.

lmaoooo

http://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/04/09

love the commenters saying "this isn't going to hold up over time!!"...fine, you can go read the other 70,000,000 Nancy strips then

A+++

some of these new strips are like, peak-Peanuts good

As someone who suffered through the Jerry Scott era (and never read any of the Gilchrist stuff), this is kind of amazing.

Even if I hadn't suffered through the Jerry Scott era, it'd still be amazing.

These new strips are pretty good! I like all the modern tech gags. They do a good job of keeping the Bushmiller sensibility and style, but also feel fresh. My only gripe is that some of the adults look off-brand.

speaking of, when did Heathcliff get so weird and postmodern?

http://www.gocomics.com/heathcliff/2018/04/12

https://theoutline.com/post/4084/the-internet-oddballs-who-think-the-heathcliff-comics-are-deep?zd=1&zi=6j4p6gjh

I mentioned it on the other thread, but: Olivia Jaimes's new Nancy strips are great!

I'm dying at this one: http://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/04/12

But Gilchrist is apparently still doing Sundays? Because now I'm really curious to see what Jaimes does with Sunday space.

Nancy otm, Sluggo needs to up his YouTube views.

xp

But Gilchrist is apparently still doing Sundays?

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, April 19, 2018 9:43 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sunday strips have a longer lead time, I assume there's a backlog still

these Jaimes strips are great, tyvm everyone

ugh jerry scott era nancy is one of the worst strips ever

this is so great

Thread revive and no mention of Mark Newgarden's awesome "How to Read Nancy" from last year? Rectified.

yay these are really funny

the before is... well, yeah

Everyone is posting about the new Nancy writer. To help you make your own comparison, here is an entire Nancy strip from a few weeks ago by the old (and I do mean old) writer, followed by a strip from the new one. pic.twitter.com/efOeUJWm8t

— Cybernetically Enhanced Abby Denton (@mizabitha) April 18, 2018

So it had basically turned into Pluggers?

I don’t think pluggers is that sentimental about thirty years ago. that’s some weird specific fixation

do you think a slightly-younger cartoonist would say “we had that 70s show and seinfeld” because... uh, damn

https://i.imgur.com/qZH402S.jpg

Hooo boy

????

the moody blues one has been ref’d a lot but I was afraid to track it down, thanks crut

feel like silby has never experienced a tuuuuuuesday afterrrrrrnooon

That just makes me feel bad for Ernie Bushmiller

Would have much preferred Nancy going to see ELO.

Thankfully that comic seems to have been published long after his death

Supposedly from 1998? That has to be a miscitation, right? Or the Gilchrists were showing the world that rock acts could have orchestras when... god, I can’t unravel how dumb and backward this is

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbKvuBlU0AApT93.jpg:large

Holy crap, I didn't realize they started in 1995. I assumed that strip was from the 60s or 70s.

tbf pbs stations even now show stuff like a special evening with the moody blues

That's because they buy programming from national PBS and stuff like Moody Blues concerts were paid for a long long time ago.

yeah but the rights to air them don't actually last that long

iirc they mostly show the “live at red rocks” which was kind of donated as a fundraiser show in 1993 or something. It’s up there with the mannheim steamroller christmas music shows in the rotation.

I'd be willimg to believe the Moody Blues paid for a Nancy feature back in the 60s. It was a prestige move.

Moody Blues were on the Simpsons roughly the same time (The Homer & Flanders Go To Vegas ep).

Thread revive and no mention of Mark Newgarden's awesome "How to Read Nancy" from last year? Rectified.

― mick signals, Thursday, April 19, 2018 4:55 PM (one week ago) Bookmark

i've been intrigued by & enjoying this comic and i picked up this book today, looks legit great just from an initial flip-thru, thx for mentioning it!

thought some of the strips this week were a little weaker but i liked this

http://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/04/28

rumbled

And this http://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/04/27

Is Metanancy the Nancy we deserve?

metanancy, paradoxically, is the realest nancy

took me about 10 seconds to find this in my big nancy book:

https://dzwonsemrish7.cloudfront.net/items/1C2b0U3k3l201A0Z341E/IMG_8031.jpg

lower left corner of the back cover:

https://dzwonsemrish7.cloudfront.net/items/3q2K122m3w3d0W011N0M/IMG_8029.jpg

Well there's classic or "pure" Metanancy, Nancy that's about Nancy the comic, and then there's "post-Nancy" Metanancy that's Nancy about Nancy the cultural phenomenon

lol this was the last guy gilchrist strip... are you fucking serious dogg

https://i.imgur.com/JAMNCdO.jpg

she married Archie? is this canon?

Presumably just wishful thinking, hence the song choice?? Who or what is the furthest-right silhouette, any idea?

can't think of a better response than crut's on this one

that not Archie, it Fritzi Ritz's long term boyfriend (or husband now, I guess?) PHIL FUMBLE

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--qdUfWYW3ow/UMDh52YYxQI/AAAAAAAANRY/D2J8tb2AAJI/s1600/nc121130.gif

Gilchrist's Nancy actually much weirder than millennial Metanancy imo

http://i.imgur.com/qwwn9T0.gif

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Guy Gilchrist: ahh, time to draw the comic strip Nancy *massive bong rip*

*turns on classic rock FM for inspiration*

I could try to unpack this single NANCY panel for the next twelve hours and still not scratch the surface: pic.twitter.com/85k5jAhSWB

— Megan Abbott (@meganeabbott) May 17, 2018

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/05/16

basically this

is that a John Stanley?

frogbs' post is some baller all-time nancy content

xp yep that's from the nancy comic book by john stanley.

lovelymajorhoople 2 days ago

this is getting boring-is Nancy ever going to get out of techno land???

this comment from that May 16th strip kills me because it's an old person asking if a kid will ever stop messing around with computers and do something else, which is exactly what every adult does to kids

Nancy is probably the most relatable strip in the newspaper now

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/05/20

it actually elicited an audible chuckle, something no newspaper strip has done for years

I think the last time I looked forward to reading a current comic strip this much was the early '00s heyday of The Boondocks.

starting to almost get *too* meta

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/05/27

c'mon that's great

maybe it's churlish to say but artwork-wise she doesn't really come close to the virtuosity of bushmiller

nancy should've ended after bushmiller died imo. i like this new artist ok but i feel like her stuff would be just as good if she were drawing her own characters rather than her own versions of nancy and sluggo. (and yeah i realize that drawing a legacy strip that's already in a lot of papers results in more exposure for her work, which is fair.)

The new strip has a melancholy, introverted sensibility that wasn't really in the Bushmiller comics. I think of Nancy similarly to Calvin ... she seemed unflappable and capable of anything. New Nancy seems a little more unsure of herself.

huh really? i feel like old nancy was constantly getting blindsided by stuff, flummoxed by people acting cruelly

I'm glad this thread keeps getting bumped because it reminds me to get caught up on the latest strips, still love it!

maybe i am mashing her up with charlie brown in my head but i don't think entirely - i'll see if i can dig some examples out tomorrow when i have access to my book

maybe it's churlish to say but artwork-wise she doesn't really come close to the virtuosity of bushmiller

I mean, duh? She's a baby cartoonist, he was a zen genius who just saw a 300pp book published analysing a single strip

Legacy strips are poison and ownership should always remain with the generating artist, BUT Jaimes is fantastic and I doubt there's been a better successor on any daily post-1950

happy to read a big collection of Bobby London's to see, though

Has there been any suggestion of who she actually is, yet?

I think it's settled into a comforting but rather blah groove since the amazing first few weeks. But at least one strip per week makes me laugh, which means it's 20% better than almost every newspaper strip ever.

I recently discovered this strip (now finished) which went under the radar in the UK - it's a twee but a pretty likeable kin to Peanuts / Calvin&Hobbes / the new Nancy: https://www.gocomics.com/culdesac/2017/05/09

I think it's settled into a comforting but rather blah groove since the amazing first few weeks. But at least one strip per week makes me laugh, which means it's 20% better than almost every newspaper strip ever.

otm. The last week or so has been kind of meh, but I'm eager to see how things develop.

(and anyway, the greatest strips had their dull weeks here and there, so I'm not too worried.)

Has there been any suggestion of who she actually is, yet?

I think it's highly unlikely that she's anyone other than a young woman who doesn't want her crappy early webcomics dug up and abused by randos. If it turns out this is Brunetti having another swing, though, I'll still be impressed.

If it's Brunetti his artwork has deteriorated p badly

well, remember how bad he was before Schizo

Interview w/Olivia Jaimes

https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/yweqz7/the-woman-behind-nancy-has-made-an-80-year-old-comic-funny-again

Love that headline. "This thing neither you nor I paid attention to until three months ago is awesome now, but don't worry, it must have sucked before."

Interesting interview!

I'll overlook that the writer begin it with "Not sure if you guys heard, but"

https://i.imgur.com/cpxBvt2.jpg

Something about Fritzi's eyes in panel 3 rings a faint bell, but I still don't have a guess.

Love that headline. "This thing neither you nor I paid attention to until three months ago is awesome now, but don't worry, it must have sucked before."

Are you a Gilchrist fan?

i only ever see the 'featured comment' but they are routinely incredible

Michael Thorton 4 days ago

Gee, I wonder why people don’t use Android phones which have expandable storage thanks to SD cards…

Oh, wait – they’re lazy lotus-eating dilletantes who want everything done for them and so take the easy way out and bite the Apple.

(Open-source zindabad – score one for the nerds. We face much less problems than this. Heck, my twenty-year-old kid brother makes his own smartwatch OSes.)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YnseibzD4jg/StQasfxmRrI/AAAAAAAAA7g/7yzifv2g0Jw/s400/nancybook.png

(from The Nancy Book by Joe Brainard)

Comments on the new strips are a window into another world

CHUCKBOWEN1 5 DAYS AGO
Actually, we have periodically taught algebra in primary schools. And the kids mastered it. Math reforms are always being pushed by the professional organizations, like NCTM, and by educational reform laws at both the state and federal levels. So, it is proven possible, and at some level, has been required of schools.

With modern instructional methods, e.g., the progression of mastery as students age from concrete to semi-concrete to abstract algorithms, it is quite possible for children to think mathematically.

The problem is not the kids. It’s the backlash from adults. That was true when I started teaching Second Grade in the 1970’s. “New Math” suffered pervasive complaints and ridicule and died off within a few years as.

The most recent iteration is the ‘Common Core’ (http://www.corestandards.org/Math/), which is frequently the butt of negative memes in social media, as well as a target of unhappy parents’ complaints at PTO’s and school board meetings. It even garners the sometime attention of the broadcast and print media.

As evidenced in this comment stream, most of the complaints boil down to two types. 1) Little kids can’t learn that stuff, because even (I) don’t understand it. (Yes, they can. Instruction has advanced. See “concrete =>semi-concrete =>abstract algorithms,” above.) 2) Little kids can’t learn that stuff, because I didn’t have to until high school. (Yes they can. See research summaries linked from the Common Core website URL, above.)

In short, it is a fact that young kids taught appropriately can learn to operate and apply a type of algebra. It is also true that what kids can learn is irrelevant in public schools, because schools don’t operate rationally They exist politically in the American democratic environment. Schools are subjected to the whims of public opinion, politicians’ ambitions, and lobbyists. So what it is possible for kids succumbs to whatever happens to be the political flavor of the day.

That comment seems pretty sane to me?

Interesting interview!

I'll overlook that the writer begin it with "Not sure if you guys heard, but"

― Chuck_Tatum

and the bizarre claim that the strip "wasn't funny since the eisenhower era" before posting the august 8, 1959 strip - apparently when kennedy got elected the bushmiller abruptly stopped being funny?

sad lol:

"I grimace when I hear the notification sound and think, 'what new pain is this?'” Jaimes told me.

i understand it, there no doubt a lot of insincere gocomics reactionaries who would love to use a dorothy parker quote as a pretext for talking about why jaimes is the Worst Person in the World

That comment seems pretty sane to me?

It's certainly a nuanced opinion on Jaimes` work, and one imagines there's plenty more consideration of her craft in that dude's posting history.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/nancy-more-relatable-ever-at-85-180969865/

https://amp.dailydot.com/unclick/sluggo-is-lit-meme/

so did the person who wrote that not _read_ last monday's nancy, or simply not _understand_ it?

great strip

https://www.cbr.com/nancy-olivia-jaimes-first-public-convention-appearance/amp/

this is yep

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/09/14

Someone forgot to inform Olivia Jaimes that newspaper strips are meant to be uniformly terrible nowadays.

it's good https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/09/25

reports from Jaimes’ CXC appearance are all 👌

So I gather she disguised her voice? Is there any chance it isnt even a woman? I had this sudden "what if its Nicholas Gurewich" thought but ... eh its not quite his style.

I would think the syndicate's initial press release saying "yes, it's really a woman" can be trusted; dunno what reason there would be to lie about it

Yeah yr right, it seems like an odd move to make otherwise.

also since reports estimate that Jaimes is under 25, that means Gur3w1tch would have started uni when he was 8 or 9 years old

yah i just found an article saying that ... rules out everyone I had in mind lol

really, I don't think there's any reason to analyse past the "cover story" that she just wnats to avoid insane online dudes harassing her in her real, or real online, life, it's 2018

Good point :(

Yeah, according to one of the reports she did appear live in the con chat but was wearing goggles and a scarf or something like that to conceal her face. So presumably she just wants to keep her identity a secret for the sake of privacy.

reports from Jaimes’ CXC appearance are all 👌

― Stab my hinge, get hit (sic), Thursday, October 4, 2018 12:05 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Disappointed to learn of her alt right leanings.

that the sixth cartoonist taking over Nancy of all strips has to disguise herself to avoid harassment is some real mind-boggling the apocalypse has already happened shit

I just read a bunch of the latest strips and have concluded that the moment of apocalypse was whenever the first comment box was made

They really should remove the comments section below the cartoon. Some real Youtube-level trash there

what's striking is the variety of terribleness too: breathless internet sleuths trying to deduce her identity, comicsgaters, sad nostalgists, people criticizing a cartoon for not using three-point perspective, etc.

anyway, all the school strips are great! classic C&H tone on this one:
https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/09/24

I might feel more sympathy for the nostalgists - sd OJ is actually pretty inconsistent! - but the Gilchrist comics they love are so, so bad, like among the worst public art I have ever seen.

I love this one as a mission statement:

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/08/08

* as OJ is

The Gilchrist Moody Blues Sunday strip posted upthread around the time of the handover was unfathomably bad

lol yes
I agree with Chuck about the lack of consistency but am inclined to cut a daily strip a lot of slack at the outset. I could also never read this again and not really care, which is why the commenters are so alien to me.

yeah i think anyone expecting consistency is... looking for the wrong thing. these things always read best in bumper digests. they're the original bingewatch object.

i will say i am a complete mark for jaimes' nancy. it is pretty much all i want from the internet right now, a new nancy strip to read every day.

i do also feel that setting up people into jaimes/gilchrist camps is a false dichotomy. it's actually people who likes olivia jaimes' nancy vs. horrible human beings, and i don't have any particular evidence gilchrist is a horrible human being.

gilchrist's comics are so visually unappealing and gross i can barely stand to look at them. the guy makes bil keane look like chris ware.

it's actually people who likes olivia jaimes' nancy vs. horrible human beings, and i don't have any particular evidence gilchrist is a horrible human being.

uh

I mean, unless you think "got fired from his sinecure on a legacy strip after sexually assaulting and (separately) beating up his assistant, before firing her over Facebook, and then posting pictures of them together on the 'gram captioned with long incoherent rants about how she's going to be federally indicted based on information he has given to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and how he'd sacrificed so much to make her into a great artist, and thought of her as a daughter" is outweighed by him also including prayer emoji hands and explaining that he does whatever God tells him every morning

I mean, unless you think "got fired from his sinecure on a legacy strip after sexually assaulting and (separately) beating up his assistant, before firing her over Facebook, and then posting pictures of them together on the 'gram captioned with long incoherent rants about how she's going to be federally indicted based on information he has given to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and how he'd sacrificed so much to make her into a great artist, and thought of her as a daughter" is outweighed by him also including prayer emoji hands and explaining that he does whatever God tells him every morning

― Stab my hinge, get hit (sic)

ok, there you go, he is a horrible human being. i wasn't really paying attention, thanks for the correction!

So did God also tell him to be not funny?

i think that's in one of the pauline epistles. i can't remember if it's one of the pseudepigraphica, though.

also, i now feel totally validated for always having hated the moody blues (except for "go now" which gets a free pass)

Are there going to be print collections of James' Nancy strips or am I misunderstanding the banter upthread? Because I think these strips are awesome but I basically forget to read them unless this thread is bumped

I think the print collections being discussed are are all vintage Bushmiller stuff. All the Jaimes strips can be found on the gocomics Nancy page.

also at comics rss

holy shit i didn't know that about Gilchrist, I just thought he was a corny Republican furry who loved country music

Facebook post yesterday from Bill Griffith:

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/43255826_10156870848082764_2123556007236861952_o.jpg?_nc_cat=104&oh=5c78f53d1dfefecc4723f73dca7e7c43&oe=5C56D614

Starting my next project---a graphic biography of my cartoon hero, "Nancy" creator, Ernie Bushmiller. Peeling back the layers and finding a nuanced, complex man whose life paralelled the evolution of comics in New York City from the Nineteen teens to the Seventies. Who knows, I may even uncover the identities of Sluggo's parents.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156870848077764&set=a.315441437763&type=3&theater

thanks for including the photo!

thanks for that link, visiting

Report from the live event: https://rockojerome.com/2018/10/01/i-have-seen-olivia-jaimes-the-cartoonist-behind-the-new-nancy/

Woah cool. That Griffith bio sounds like it will be great.

that blog was the most perfect illustration of exactly why anyone would take outré security precautions about Jaimes’ appearance.

don't think you can break the 4th wall any harder than this

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/10/26

https://www.vulture.com/amp/2018/11/nancy-comic-artist-olivia-jaimes-gives-extended-interview.html

Why did you decide to lead off your run on the comic with the strip about Nancy eating corn bread?
I went back and I looked at the end of [previous “Nancy” cartoonist] Guy Gilchrist’s run. Nancy as a character had drifted from where I envision her, in that the Nancy I know and love is a total jerk and also gluttonous and also has big feelings and voraciously consumes her world. And I was like, I need to do a character-reset week. Just kinda being like, Here’s who Nancy’s gonna be right now. And also, I love corn bread. So, that’s it. That’s the reason. I wanted to reset expectations and pay homage to my favorite food.

Top comment on today's strip:

Alexikakos about 10 hours ago

To Olivia’s fans.

This is how your hero, Ernie Bushmiller (whose style Olivia is said by many of you to be emulating), had Nancy visualizing herself sometime in her 20’s.

Can you say “Betty Boop?”

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/1948/11/06

Get with the program your fans seem to think you’re following, Olivia, or finally admit you don’t have a clue what you’re doing and quit.

P.S.

If the person using the avatar “Olivia Jaimes” is you, Olivia, you’ll have to get yourself a “Creator” designation (example below) before I believe it. Until then, you, whoever you are, is just someone taking advantage of a GoComics programming loop-hole and attempting to scam everybody.

I’ll deliver the same criticisms and opinions to your “commenting face” (if you do get a Creator’s designation), as I do now.

Hay peeples, wee awl halve “commenting” faces hear; their called a-vat-of-tars.

Every won’s spelling and grammer, in clue ding what is the general name of a series of tunnels dug to recover or, can pretty much all ways be impruved.

Why again are there comments sections on comic strips?

Worst Daniel Clowes protagonist ever

Why again are there comments sections on comic strips?

― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain)

why, in 2019, are there comments sections on _anything_?

a couple of months ago I was bored at work and went down a rabbit hole of reading comments on classic Nancy cartoons. there is definitely a community of weirdos who are deeply involved in yuks practice. this was my favorite:

pic.twitter.com/ejLKiF6E5T

— n1ck amm3rman (@somelanguage) December 31, 2018

this practice, not yuks practice

A+: https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/01/20

yeah that's good

Bushmiller would be proud

Bushmiller would be proud

Bushmiller would have posted three times.

That is brilliant.

is anyone else disturbed by the extra panel in the in-comic comic

the Sunday has had a topper until this week, she probably didn't know it wouldn't when she drew it

https://i.imgur.com/DvDoAAS.gif

lol

hahahah nice

that was ok but i liked today's better!

I want printed collections of Jaimes Nancy, hope they will come

i don't get the robotics one unless the punchline is the no punchline?

the fourth panel is missing

it makes more sense in situ: https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/01/29

Ah okay I see now

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/03/04

love this one

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/02/21

it's been consistently great for a couple months now

also

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/02/27

OMG

Here's a higher resolution version of Olivia Jaimes' #WicDiv cover pic.twitter.com/CugbkPbH7U

— Jamie McKelvie was at ECCC, but he's not anymore (@McKelvie) March 21, 2019

From a recent TCJ interview with underground comix legend Bill "Zippy the Pinhead" Griffith:

Can you give us a preview of your next project?

I'll just say that it's a deeply researched biography of Nancy cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller--and the cartooning worlds he lived among in New York from the late 1910s to the 1970s--helped along considerably by interviews with Ernie's still-living friend Jim Carlsson and the generosity of Mark Newgarden in giving me access to interviews and research he and Paul Karasick did for How to Read Nancy. I'll just add a line of mine from an introduction I wrote for a Nancy anthology: "Peanuts tells you what it's like to be a child. Nancy tells you what it's like to be a comic strip."

Bill Griffith was my introduction to the greatness of Nancy when I was a kid

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/ldc/llog/NancySluggoWorld.gif

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/04/01?fbclid=IwAR1vXgURHzEpRjacJnOGtlfSWPB9UM8L_CswKjm_gBaUwoldvBAbq2SAmqg

Nancy gonna break the 5th wall one of these days

okay, that one is my favorite of the new nancys

fbclid=IwAR1vXgURHzEpRjacJnOGtlfSWPB9UM8L_CswKjm_gBaUwoldvBAbq2SAmqg

HAHAHAHAA omg that is so so good

Not counting that one though, I feel New Nancy has just fallen into a pattern of winky 4th-wall-breaking meta-commentary which is really cute SOMETIMES but I wish there was a little more there

the way I judge newspaper comics is if there's one good one in a week then that's a pretty good week

I like it! When it’s not being meta or channelling Bushmiller, I get a strong Peanuts vibe. It’s like Peanuts with Lucy as the hero instead of CB.

this one made me laugh

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/03/24

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/arts-entertainment/2019/04/09/nancy-artist-olivia-jaimes-continue-make-comics-page-lit-one-year/

That popularity is fueling other “Nancy” projects. Two books are due out in the fall, a board game is in the works, and the syndicate says it is finalizing a deal with a major streaming service for animated entertainment.

Wow, they're going all in!

Ugh that’s not a great sign imo.

Seems like overkill, but I'm curious to see where it leads.

what's fueling other projects is the fact that United Features owns the IP and is going to wring every penny out of it they can.

Nancy The Flamethrower! The kids love this one.

Sorry but it's impossible to get angry over _NANCY_ getting an all out multi-platform brand expansion. That's just deliciously funny.

Good for OJ, though

last week's strips were all pretty damn funny

i get where the schulz comparisons are coming from, a lot of the non-meta nancy is dealing with the ridiculous things we do, and it's expressed through children on top of that

like schulz nancy's behavior is genuinely childlike most of the time, but her selfishness, laziness, and petty narcissism is something that's easy to relate to as an adult

it's actually kind of interesting how relatable a character nancy is for being a narcissist

Good for OJ, though

if she's not getting a cut, she should walk

i am skeptical

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/04/17

wowww

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/05/29

Last Sunday's was great as well.

yeah this one is amazing

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/05/26

can I just

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/05/20

Poor Melissa Bangles.

i gotta say that name is... perfect

aw, I thought it must have been in repeats this week, comicsrss hasn't updated

RIP, me reading Nancy

same here, hopefully it'll wake up soon

i really loved sunday's having seen olivia's "self-portrait" recently

https://assets.gocomics.com/uploads/blogs/blog_image_4789_12085_jaimes_portrait_201901151025.jpg

hah!

There's some codgers commenting on this one about OJ making up the word "up-voted".

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/06/22

I clicked through on one of the codgers' accounts and he is following hundreds of strips and cartoonists, so: respect

http://www.tcj.com/a-brief-history-of-ernie-bushmillers-dirtiest-comic-strip/

cool.

lol

the RSS has been killed now :( :(

First collection of the Jaimes strip and a board book for the kids (entitled Nancy's Genius Plan, also by Jaimes) coming Oct. 1.

First collection of the Jaimes strip

What the heck?! JUSTICE FOR GUY GILCHRIST

(in this scenario, Gilchrist would be jailed [& his former assistant would have a gig ghosting for a syndicate, just not on Nancy])

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/07/22

http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/08/15/three-rocks-the-ernie-bushmiller-story-a-sneak-peak-at-bill-griffiths-graphic-biography/

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/08/25

They've also got pre-order links up for the two Jaimes books.

i love it

Another Labor Day classic : https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/09/02

After early enjoyment I'm kind of hating the more obnoxious personality Jaimes has given Nancy, so today was a welcome lol.

i gotta say, it's rare that anyone invokes Harold Foster these days so kudos

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/10/22

Another rip-off of one of Alan Moore’s formally audacious, intricately-illustrated reinterpretations of material from the 1960s.

I don't get it.

^ Nancy strip published 24 hours after Damon Lindelof's Watchmen

It's also a DIY Möebius Strip.

https://i.imgur.com/a6Hdrbe.jpg

Actually, I think I need someone to explain this comic to me

Time is a circle

It's also a DIY Möebius Strip.

not a Moebius strip, an tape-the-ends-together infinite loop, like Moore's I Can Hear The Grass Grow, from 1988

CALLING IT: Sic is Olivia Jaimes (and Quentin Tarentino)

Hey sic, tell your Fanta contacts to get their heads in the game, I was finally gonna pull the trigger on the Bushmiller collections only to find that they're mostly hopelessly out of print after only a couple of years. Tell them I bought the Peanuts box sets right up to the bitter end if that helps. Thx, lylas

Fanta are kind of a clown shoes operation

not a Moebius strip, an tape-the-ends-together infinite loop, like Moore's I Can Hear The Grass Grow, from 1988

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic)

pretty sure that was roy wood

reinterpretations of material from the 1960s.

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/11/08

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/02/07

This one hits all the feels:

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/01/06

read today's and said to myself "jaimes is going to wind up doing blink in four panels"

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/03/21

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/03/29

So here for Woke Sluggo

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/05/03

OMG

i chuckled, but a liiiiiittle too much effort there

lol the ott-ness makes it better imo

so good. is there a coffee table book yet??

nhex's take is my take on her whole take on nancy period. i'm not mad at it tho, beats the hell outta gilchrist.

I took a look at the first Jaimes strip collection at the bookstore and was disappointed that 1) it’s in color 2) it looks like it has JPEG artifacts or some such poor reproduction. No sale.

is it running in B&W anywhere at all? she seems to be drawing it in/for colour, would assume a B&W book would require someone spotting every single strip

Iirc, Jaimes draws and colors the strips on an iPad. It also seems like any papers still running daily strips run them in color (the last time I looked at the Houston paper--admittedly awhile ago--they were cut down from two b&w pages to the color back page of the culture/style section).

I haven’t clapped eyes on a daily comics page in aeons but I assumed they were still black and white

Guess I also assumed that the color strips were produced in the traditional way where the artist hands in a black and white version and some hack at the syndicate does colors.

https://i.imgur.com/A1ThYI0.gif
Honestly I just want to know there's a legit answer to that puzzle!

Yes.

Stack the cake

1 becomes 2, 2 becomes 4, cut 3 stacked into 6, cut 7 stacked in half

#justup2L8thoughts

ahhh stacking. ok.

thanks!

yep, slice it once horizontally through the middle, then do the remaining three cuts in this pattern:

   \ /
    x
___/_\___
  /   \

Such timing! I just had a whole discussion abt Nancy w my coworker yesterday, and then looked at the Fantagraphics collections which are all super out of print and $$$$ :(

I hate answers like that because you're just going to fuck up the frosting.

these are pedagogical cake scenarios, the real party is the math

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/07/26

Such timing! I just had a whole discussion abt Nancy w my coworker yesterday, and then looked at the Fantagraphics collections which are all super out of print and $$$$ :(

i am so called out by today's "nancy"

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/08/19

well, at least the plus side is that i can check "read nancy" off my to-do list for the day

(yes, this is true, i literally have a daily to-do list with "read nancy" as an item on it)

so good

lmao that's great

nancy, why you gotta neoliberal so hard

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/08/20

hah

okay, i like that one

LABOR DAY: https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/09/07

haha, too much.

if there were comics like that in the paper when I was a kid it would've blown my mind

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/09/03/nancy-the-labor-day-tradition-continues/

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/06/18

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/10/13

heh love that little tear

Me and my partner for the last 20 years

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/12/15

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2021/01/02

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2021/03/28

https://www.gocomics.com/heartofthecity/2021/04/01

eh?

Consider the date. Consider who created said strip today.

mmm hmm got it

Might as well have posted the other: https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2021/04/01

...which calls back a gag from this same time last year: https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/04/01

hah! did not catch that at all.

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2021/05/06

The 'Featured Comment' is a humdinger.

Labor Day!

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2021/09/06

In the grand tradition - excellent

I have some OG examples of labor day nancys at home - will see if I can dig them out

I follow the 'Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller' account on twitter (@JohnnyCallicutt), as the name suggests it mainly posts Bushmiller strips, but it's recently done a few strips from early on in Guy Gilchrist's run, and they're actually ... quite good? Obviously paying homage to Bushmiller's style, I don't know how or when it went from this to four panels of Phil Fumble talking about his favourite classic rock albums.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNih4SpWYKoLIA8?format=jpg&name=medium

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNvC9XMXIAAv9sA?format=jpg&name=small

those were co-created with his brother Brad Gilchrist, so maybe Brad was the talented one?

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2022/04/01

Wild ride in the comments.

one of my favorite things about new Nancy are the boomers in the comments whose sense of humor is still stuck in the 1950s

for what its worth I don't really get the punchline either

another rare 'actually pretty good' Gilchrist era strip

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRjsvw-XMAYCT11?format=jpg&name=medium

Hey now...

I mean, it's very different that the stuff he was doing two decades into his run, we can agree on that at least

https://cafans.b-cdn.net/images/Category_35597/subcat_163089/DoPPEFrZ_1303150948231.jpg

Hey now...

I loathed the comic when I was a kid, but the current incarnation is actually pretty good.

"Some Idiot from R'Lyeh" LOL

xp soref wow, what the hell

https://www.gawker.com/culture/the-ceaseless-delight-of-nancy

Labor Day!

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2022/09/05

Nancy Panel By Ernie Bushmiller pic.twitter.com/ZzpvEvC0LV

— Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller (@JohnnyCallicutt) September 5, 2022

Aunt Fritzi's 100!

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/10/09/a-century-of-fritzi-ritz/

Nancy Panel By Ernie Bushmiller pic.twitter.com/WmTRfHtIBE

— Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller (@JohnnyCallicutt) December 6, 2022

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2022/12/25

"bad gus"

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller 1.8.50 pic.twitter.com/OJcJu1b0FR

— Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller (@JohnnyCallicutt) January 8, 2023

Bad Gus

Gas Bud

https://i.imgur.com/L7SP2GU.png

nancy duchamp

Classic three-rock placement there.

Nancy Panel By Ernie Bushmiller pic.twitter.com/tyFR5zv8OL

— Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller (@JohnnyCallicutt) February 6, 2023

that’s how it was supposed to be

This could be us but you playing

what

https://assets.amuniversal.com/05503420daa801345620005056a9545d

People used to take their shoes off at the movies, and Nancy was in a theater of adult men, thus explaining her now-hilarious looking footwear

i think they look cool

Did they really though?

After 1,674 slight variations on the same joke, jaimes confounds expectations by combining it with her other joke

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2023/08/26

goddamn smirky eyebrow-raised badass poochie cartoons nowadays

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/08/26/ernie-bushmiller-biography-nancy-three-rocks/

Ah i totally forgot that was coming out... thanks!

Wow! Perfect

Fantagraphics trying again:

https://www.fantagraphics.com/collections/coming-soon/products/nancy-wears-hats

The first volume in a new series collecting Ernie Bushmiller’s timeless and beloved Nancy!

last year as warm-up: The Nancy Show, a history/art book edited by Maresca to accompany a Billy Ireland exhibition:

https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/the-nancy-show-celebrating-the-art-of-ernie-bushmiller

and a reissue of the mega-expanded book version of How To Read Nancy:

https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/how-to-read-nancy-the-elements-of-comics-in-three-easy-panels

Overall, I can't say I'm a Caroline Cash fan, though yesterday's "woims" thing was weird enough to keep me reading for a while longer.

Wow, I didn't even realise OJ had left. Loved the first few years of her run then I guess I got distracted and forgot about it.

Yeah i missed that news too.

People used to take their shoes off at the movies, and Nancy was in a theater of adult men, thus explaining her now-hilarious looking footwear

Still need confirmation on this

Haven't read much of her Nancy yet but Caroline Cash rules.

its been pretty amusing so far. as much as I liked some of the Olivia Jaimes strips she did do the same jokes over and over again and I got the feeling like she was getting bored with it

yeah OJ definitely burned out after the second year or so

i think the new ones are very good! and i like the artwork much more than OJ’s

Highly recommend her work:

https://okcomics.co.uk/products/peepee-poopoo-1-by-caroline-cash

"they pay me in woims" is a classic old nancy bit from when sluggo gets a job at a bait shack

trbh i think cash's strips are really quite faithful to the oblique, child-like simplicity of the OG series.. except.. EXCEPT a couple of sundays ago she did this!!

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2026/02/15

Putting yourself smoking a cigarette in a comic strip for children really is a choice in 2026

The editors probably at some time during the Gilchrist run arrived and have remained at the conclusion that children don't read Nancy anymore.

xp I'm guessing the majority of readers of Nancy in 2026 are not children.

The editors probably at some time during the Gilchrist run 20th century arrived and have remained at the conclusion that children don't read Nancy anymore.

The editors probably at some time during the Gilchrist run 20th century arrived and have remained at the conclusion that children don't read Nancy comic strips anymore.

Putting yourself smoking a cigarette in a comic strip for children really is a choice in 2026

Mary Whitehouse over here

seriously though. i assume these are actually getting printed up in the funny pages in Sunday newspapers somewhere right? if there were actually any human editors of these things (weak laugh) i'd have expected them to be outraged, not run the strip etc

The audience for comic strips - i.e. senior citizens - is I think less likely to get outraged over cigarette use than pretty much everyone else, though they are obv outraged at Cash for other reasons.

it’s the #58008 issue of PPPP, isn’t it

interesting

https://bsky.app/profile/cashbrowns.bsky.social/post/3mgas2x6rsc26

holy shit she just retconned the entire history of nancy

maybe. or maybe there's a reason none of Aunt Fritzi's relationships seemed to last

fritzie does look like a character from Love and Rockets

Wondering if the boomers who got angry when Gilchrist left and they couldn't jack it to Fritzi anymore are angry or turned on by this new development. Probably both.

fritzie does look like a character from Love and Rockets

I mean....

https://www.comics.org/character/717/

CommonRuffian
4 hours ago
jaimes' run was good but this is reminding me it was missing a crucial element: the author wanting fritzi ritz carnally

love it

playing the hits and i’m here for it

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2026/03/19

i really just think she gets the spirit of bushmiller

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2026/03/16

https://64.media.tumblr.com/adc5b2f367d75c8b47b947a3820b113d/tumblr_pcg1wjf8iP1qzfmh5o1_500.jpg

nancy's a gemini

holy shit she just retconned the entire history of nancy

― Tracer Hand

nahhhh i mean it's kinda like velma from scooby doo being gay. everybody had to be straight back in the day so velma was assumed straight, but she was pretty openly based on zelda from dobie gillis, who was a straight character played by, uh, _sheila kuehl_.