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

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