Fucking Comics.com keeps interrupting their Lil Abner Classics in the middle of storylines!
― There is no Grodd but Mallah and Congorilla is His Prophet. (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 00:13 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― clotpoll, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Katzenjammer Kids never made me anything other than confused and bored.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Nancy, the voice of sanity in 1970
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 August 2009 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Coming soon.
― KEEP CALM+++THRILL FACTOR OVERLOAD+++KEEP CALM (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 23 August 2009 08:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I liked the floral hipsters joke
― salvador dollywood (Curt1s Stephens), Sunday, 23 August 2009 08:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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.”
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.”
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgzsoxadc1qfzuo6o1_500.png
― GREENS (the putting kind) (donna rouge), Monday, 14 November 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
(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?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 November 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
thanks for the great tumblr link donna!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 November 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
i mean
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq04soTkZi1qfzuo6o1_500.png
― GREENS (the putting kind) (donna rouge), Monday, 14 November 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
oh god i remember that blonde lady!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 November 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
ay yi yi
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
First collection of daily strips from Fantagraphics is finally out!
― and i don't even care, similar to how a badass would respond (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
Nancy's still got shades of that Fritzi Ritz look in it
― and i don't even care, similar to how a badass would respond (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
Also I can't believe I knocked Bringing Up Father on this thread. WTF, me.
― and i don't even care, similar to how a badass would respond (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
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
― and i don't even care, similar to how a badass would respond (Abbbottt), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
Visually confusing mixture of a sharp-hooked speech bubble and a scallop-edged thought bubble there.
― Aimless, Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
the book design on the new reprint is awesome btw
― rob, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/images/features/If_Nancy_Had_an_Afro.gif
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 15 October 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/jimwoodring/sluggo.jpg
http://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/sluggo-mask_this-isnt-happiness-1004044.jpg
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 15 October 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.peteykins.com/sparklepics5/NancyPanel18.jpg
http://www.boingboing.net/filesroot/zensluggo.jpg
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 15 October 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldpuaisfFP1qfzuo6o1_400.png
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 15 October 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://rci.rutgers.edu/~jbass/courses/402/images/nancy_invisible_glass.jpg
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
Nancy is the BEST
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
I have never really read or looked at Nancy before this morning; I am really into this.
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5cfedBOkT1rudptgo1_400.png
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
Have thought for years about making a Five Card Nancy deck.
http://scottmccloud.com/4-inventions/nancy/index.html
― WmC, Monday, 15 October 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
had a crush on the Aunt
― ticks up my sleeve (brownie), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/images/features/If_Nancy_Had_an_Afro.gifhttp://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS9zydTDgs74yEQBA3cduao22k2L4vFgw9dAH64QbPYam9EJKBL
― Sex Kitten mind control slave (Dan Peterson), Monday, 15 October 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://donnaalmendrala.name/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/nancy_2.png
― everything, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
I really, really want to see the whole strip the floating "NO" panel is from; does anyone have this?
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/318209_4800893574955_467758796_n.jpg
― ICANN Tina Turner (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
Okay, this is super cool:
http://theamericanreader.com/the-beckettbushmiller-letters/
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 01:23 (ten years ago) link
O_O
so fuckin' cool!!!!!
― Home Despot (WilliamC), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
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
― Home Despot (WilliamC), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 01:39 (ten years ago) link
Hey, wait a minute...
Illustrations by R. SikoryakThis piece originally appeared in Hermenaut No. 15, 1999
― Home Despot (WilliamC), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 01:43 (ten years ago) link
doh! I didn't catch that.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 01:44 (ten years ago) link
I nabbed it from Tom Hart on twitter and didn't even look for attributions.
Well done regardless.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 01:45 (ten years ago) link
I wanted it to be true just a little too much.
― Home Despot (WilliamC), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 01:50 (ten years ago) link
me too. Would have been a nice companion to the Beckett drives Andre the Giant to school story.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 01:50 (ten years ago) link
The correspondence of Ernie Bushmiller and Samuel Beckett
― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
d'oh sorry
― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
i think they look cool
― mark s, Friday, 3 March 2023 12:28 (one year ago) link
Did they really though?
― pplains, Friday, 3 March 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link
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
― Grandall Flange (wins), Saturday, 26 August 2023 07:15 (seven months ago) link
goddamn smirky eyebrow-raised badass poochie cartoons nowadays
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 26 August 2023 08:13 (seven months ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/08/26/ernie-bushmiller-biography-nancy-three-rocks/
― Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Sunday, 27 August 2023 13:44 (seven months ago) link
Ah i totally forgot that was coming out... thanks!
― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:03 (seven months ago) link
Wow! Perfect
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:04 (seven months ago) link