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

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