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

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:

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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

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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