metanancy, paradoxically, is the realest nancy
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 April 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
took me about 10 seconds to find this in my big nancy book:
https://dzwonsemrish7.cloudfront.net/items/1C2b0U3k3l201A0Z341E/IMG_8031.jpg
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 April 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
lower left corner of the back cover:
https://dzwonsemrish7.cloudfront.net/items/3q2K122m3w3d0W011N0M/IMG_8029.jpg
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 April 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
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
― mick signals, Sunday, 29 April 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
lol this was the last guy gilchrist strip... are you fucking serious dogg
https://i.imgur.com/JAMNCdO.jpg
― cr.ht (crüt), Monday, 30 April 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
she married Archie? is this canon?
― frogbs, Monday, 30 April 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
Presumably just wishful thinking, hence the song choice?? Who or what is the furthest-right silhouette, any idea?
― mick signals, Monday, 30 April 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
can't think of a better response than crut's on this one
― mh, Monday, 30 April 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
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
― soref, Monday, 30 April 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
Gilchrist's Nancy actually much weirder than millennial Metanancy imo
http://i.imgur.com/qwwn9T0.gif
― soref, Monday, 30 April 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 30 April 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link
Guy Gilchrist: ahh, time to draw the comic strip Nancy *massive bong rip*
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 30 April 2018 19:03 (six years ago) link
*turns on classic rock FM for inspiration*
― mick signals, Monday, 30 April 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 May 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/05/16
basically this
― frogbs, Friday, 18 May 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
is that a John Stanley?
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Friday, 18 May 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link
frogbs' post is some baller all-time nancy content
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 May 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
xp yep that's from the nancy comic book by john stanley.
― visiting, Friday, 18 May 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
lovelymajorhoople 2 days agothis is getting boring-is Nancy ever going to get out of techno land???
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
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Friday, 18 May 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
Nancy is probably the most relatable strip in the newspaper now
https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/05/20
― frogbs, Sunday, 20 May 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
it actually elicited an audible chuckle, something no newspaper strip has done for years
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 21 May 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
I think the last time I looked forward to reading a current comic strip this much was the early '00s heyday of The Boondocks.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 21 May 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
starting to almost get *too* meta
https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/05/27
― frogbs, Thursday, 31 May 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
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
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 31 May 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
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 Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 31 May 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
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.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 31 May 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
huh really? i feel like old nancy was constantly getting blindsided by stuff, flummoxed by people acting cruelly
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 31 May 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
I'm glad this thread keeps getting bumped because it reminds me to get caught up on the latest strips, still love it!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 31 May 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
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
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 31 May 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
maybe it's churlish to say but artwork-wise she doesn't really come close to the virtuosity of bushmillerI 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
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Friday, 1 June 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
happy to read a big collection of Bobby London's to see, though
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Friday, 1 June 2018 00:20 (six years ago) link
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
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 1 June 2018 11:22 (six years ago) link
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.)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 1 June 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link
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.
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Friday, 1 June 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
If it's Brunetti his artwork has deteriorated p badly
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 1 June 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
well, remember how bad he was before Schizo
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Friday, 1 June 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
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
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 7 June 2018 04:22 (six years ago) link
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."
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 7 June 2018 13:05 (six years ago) link
Interesting interview!
I'll overlook that the writer begin it with "Not sure if you guys heard, but"
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 7 June 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
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.
― WilliamC, Thursday, 7 June 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link
Are you a Gilchrist fan?
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 7 June 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
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.)
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 June 2018 01:11 (six years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YnseibzD4jg/StQasfxmRrI/AAAAAAAAA7g/7yzifv2g0Jw/s400/nancybook.png
(from The Nancy Book by Joe Brainard)
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 17 June 2018 07:17 (five years ago) link
Comments on the new strips are a window into another world
CHUCKBOWEN1 5 DAYS AGOActually, 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.
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.
― louise ck (milo z), Sunday, 17 June 2018 07:42 (five years ago) link
That comment seems pretty sane to me?
― Stanley Therapy (stevie), Sunday, 17 June 2018 08:55 (five years ago) link
― 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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 17 June 2018 09:25 (five years ago) link
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.
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Sunday, 17 June 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/nancy-more-relatable-ever-at-85-180969865/
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
https://amp.dailydot.com/unclick/sluggo-is-lit-meme/
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 September 2018 23:31 (five years ago) link
so did the person who wrote that not _read_ last monday's nancy, or simply not _understand_ it?
― milkshake duck george bernard shaw (rushomancy), Monday, 10 September 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link