― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 24 July 2004 04:57 (nineteen years ago) link
sums up the then and now (but not the normalizer) quite well
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 24 July 2004 05:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 24 July 2004 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 24 July 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 24 July 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― jess, Saturday, 24 July 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
oh, but yeah, Bushmiller was the coolest.
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 24 July 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 24 July 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 24 July 2004 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link
ihttp://www.gilchriststudios.com/nancy/celeb2/10b.gif
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 July 2004 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 12 September 2005 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― anthony, Monday, 12 September 2005 08:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Okay, should I buy this?http://cgi.ebay.com/COMIC-STRIP-NANCY-DOLL_W0QQitemZ140281671292QQihZ004QQcategoryZ723QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 17 November 2008 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
cuz it's kinda awesome.
That's freaking Little Lulu.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 17 November 2008 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 17 November 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
THERE we go. That is the Nancy I would buy.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 17 November 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
srsly when did Nancy ever wear Moccasins?
Maybe it's like a Tijuana-style Lulu ripoff, that first one.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 17 November 2008 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 17 November 2008 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Even '20s-'30s strips when it was Fritzi Ritz before Nancy spin-off, she didn't look like that.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 17 November 2008 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Now i really want to buy this just to be sure.But I can hardly justify it.
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 17 November 2008 23:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I have a great Nancy compendium from eBay ($8) that has commentary from Art Spiegelman & others. v. good!
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 17 November 2008 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 17 November 2008 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
That whole strip is in there.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 17 November 2008 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
potential tattoo for when I just don't care anymore:http://www.rdrop.com/%7Ehalf/Personal/Hobbies/Comics/Nancy/3Rocks.gif
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 17 November 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
and is AWESOME and true
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 17 November 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
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.'"
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 17 November 2008 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay, a girl with a comic code authority seal gets love forever.
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 17 November 2008 23:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I am thinking my inner arm between pit & right elbow.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 17 November 2008 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― a new Rock Hardy screen name because I can't find the old one (Rock Hardy), Monday, 17 November 2008 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Did that publishing company die? They put out Cages, right?
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 17 November 2008 23:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Denis Kitchen got caught in the speculator bubble-bust, sold out to Kevin Eastman...limbo.
― a new Rock Hardy screen name because I can't find the old one (Rock Hardy), Monday, 17 November 2008 23:44 (fifteen years ago) link
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_PressA shame, cause they were simply a decade or so ahead of their time.
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 17 November 2008 23:45 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 17 November 2008 23:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I am lucky, they have them at my public library.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 17 November 2008 23:50 (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!
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 17 November 2008 23:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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
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 (twelve 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
https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2021/03/28
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 28 March 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.gocomics.com/heartofthecity/2021/04/01
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 1 April 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
eh?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 April 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
Consider the date. Consider who created said strip today.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 April 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
mmm hmm got it
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 April 2021 22:14 (two years ago) link
Might as well have posted the other: https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2021/04/01
― Nhex, Thursday, 1 April 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
...which calls back a gag from this same time last year: https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/04/01
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 1 April 2021 23:48 (two years ago) link
hah! did not catch that at all.
― Nhex, Friday, 2 April 2021 00:24 (two years ago) link
https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2021/05/06
The 'Featured Comment' is a humdinger.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 6 May 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
Labor Day!
https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2021/09/06
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 6 September 2021 14:08 (two years ago) link
In the grand tradition - excellentI have some OG examples of labor day nancys at home - will see if I can dig them out
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 September 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
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?
― soref, Sunday, 13 March 2022 14:47 (two years ago) link
https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2022/04/01
Wild ride in the comments.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 April 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 1 April 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
another rare 'actually pretty good' Gilchrist era strip
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRjsvw-XMAYCT11?format=jpg&name=medium
― soref, Saturday, 30 April 2022 09:26 (one year ago) link
Hey now...
― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Saturday, 30 April 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
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
― soref, Saturday, 30 April 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
― James Garner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Saturday, 30 April 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
I loathed the comic when I was a kid, but the current incarnation is actually pretty good.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 April 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
"Some Idiot from R'Lyeh" LOL
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 April 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
xp soref wow, what the hell
― Nhex, Sunday, 1 May 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
https://www.gawker.com/culture/the-ceaseless-delight-of-nancy
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 11 August 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2022/09/05
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 5 September 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
Nancy Panel By Ernie Bushmiller pic.twitter.com/ZzpvEvC0LV— Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller (@JohnnyCallicutt) September 5, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
Aunt Fritzi's 100!
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/10/09/a-century-of-fritzi-ritz/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 02:44 (one year ago) link
Nancy Panel By Ernie Bushmiller pic.twitter.com/WmTRfHtIBE— Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller (@JohnnyCallicutt) December 6, 2022
― mark s, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2022/12/25
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 December 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
"bad gus"
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller 1.8.50 pic.twitter.com/OJcJu1b0FR— Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller (@JohnnyCallicutt) January 8, 2023
― mark s, Sunday, 8 January 2023 13:02 (one year ago) link
Bad Gus
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 8 January 2023 18:23 (one year ago) link
Gas Bud
― #homilytweet (cat), Sunday, 8 January 2023 22:08 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/L7SP2GU.png
― mark s, Saturday, 21 January 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
nancy duchamp
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 21 January 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
Classic three-rock placement there.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 21 January 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
Nancy Panel By Ernie Bushmiller pic.twitter.com/tyFR5zv8OL— Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller (@JohnnyCallicutt) February 6, 2023
― mark s, Monday, 6 February 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
that’s how it was supposed to be
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 February 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
This could be us but you playing
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 February 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
what
https://assets.amuniversal.com/05503420daa801345620005056a9545d
― visiting, Friday, 3 March 2023 03:12 (one year ago) link
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
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 3 March 2023 11:55 (one year 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