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

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

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