Hooo boy
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 20 April 2018 03:12 (six years ago) link
????
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 20 April 2018 03:14 (six years ago) link
the moody blues one has been ref’d a lot but I was afraid to track it down, thanks crut
― mh, Friday, 20 April 2018 03:27 (six years ago) link
feel like silby has never experienced a tuuuuuuesday afterrrrrrnooon
― mh, Friday, 20 April 2018 03:28 (six years ago) link
That just makes me feel bad for Ernie Bushmiller
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 20 April 2018 03:29 (six years ago) link
Would have much preferred Nancy going to see ELO.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 April 2018 03:38 (six years ago) link
Thankfully that comic seems to have been published long after his death
Supposedly from 1998? That has to be a miscitation, right? Or the Gilchrists were showing the world that rock acts could have orchestras when... god, I can’t unravel how dumb and backward this is
― mh, Friday, 20 April 2018 03:38 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbKvuBlU0AApT93.jpg:large
― you bet, nancy (map), Friday, 20 April 2018 03:44 (six years ago) link
Holy crap, I didn't realize they started in 1995. I assumed that strip was from the 60s or 70s.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 20 April 2018 03:49 (six years ago) link
tbf pbs stations even now show stuff like a special evening with the moody blues
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 April 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
That's because they buy programming from national PBS and stuff like Moody Blues concerts were paid for a long long time ago.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 20 April 2018 03:58 (six years ago) link
yeah but the rights to air them don't actually last that long
― you bet, nancy (map), Friday, 20 April 2018 04:02 (six years ago) link
iirc they mostly show the “live at red rocks” which was kind of donated as a fundraiser show in 1993 or something. It’s up there with the mannheim steamroller christmas music shows in the rotation.
― mh, Friday, 20 April 2018 04:05 (six years ago) link
I'd be willimg to believe the Moody Blues paid for a Nancy feature back in the 60s. It was a prestige move.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 20 April 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link
Moody Blues were on the Simpsons roughly the same time (The Homer & Flanders Go To Vegas ep).
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 April 2018 04:08 (six years ago) link
Thread revive and no mention of Mark Newgarden's awesome "How to Read Nancy" from last year? Rectified.
― mick signals, Thursday, April 19, 2018 4:55 PM (one week ago) Bookmark
i've been intrigued by & enjoying this comic and i picked up this book today, looks legit great just from an initial flip-thru, thx for mentioning it!
― kinder, gentler (sleepingbag), Sunday, 29 April 2018 01:08 (six years ago) link
thought some of the strips this week were a little weaker but i liked this
http://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/04/28
― cr.ht (crüt), Sunday, 29 April 2018 03:08 (six years ago) link
rumbled
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 April 2018 08:49 (six years ago) link
And this http://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/04/27
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 29 April 2018 10:33 (six years ago) link
Is Metanancy the Nancy we deserve?
― mick signals, Sunday, 29 April 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
metanancy, paradoxically, is the realest nancy
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 April 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
took me about 10 seconds to find this in my big nancy book:
https://dzwonsemrish7.cloudfront.net/items/1C2b0U3k3l201A0Z341E/IMG_8031.jpg
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 April 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
lower left corner of the back cover:
https://dzwonsemrish7.cloudfront.net/items/3q2K122m3w3d0W011N0M/IMG_8029.jpg
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 April 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
Well there's classic or "pure" Metanancy, Nancy that's about Nancy the comic, and then there's "post-Nancy" Metanancy that's Nancy about Nancy the cultural phenomenon
― mick signals, Sunday, 29 April 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
lol this was the last guy gilchrist strip... are you fucking serious dogg
https://i.imgur.com/JAMNCdO.jpg
― cr.ht (crüt), Monday, 30 April 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
she married Archie? is this canon?
― frogbs, Monday, 30 April 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
Presumably just wishful thinking, hence the song choice?? Who or what is the furthest-right silhouette, any idea?
― mick signals, Monday, 30 April 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
can't think of a better response than crut's on this one
― mh, Monday, 30 April 2018 18:28 (six years ago) link
that not Archie, it Fritzi Ritz's long term boyfriend (or husband now, I guess?) PHIL FUMBLE
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--qdUfWYW3ow/UMDh52YYxQI/AAAAAAAANRY/D2J8tb2AAJI/s1600/nc121130.gif
― soref, Monday, 30 April 2018 18:34 (six years ago) link
Gilchrist's Nancy actually much weirder than millennial Metanancy imo
http://i.imgur.com/qwwn9T0.gif
― soref, Monday, 30 April 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 30 April 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link
Guy Gilchrist: ahh, time to draw the comic strip Nancy *massive bong rip*
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 30 April 2018 19:03 (six years ago) link
*turns on classic rock FM for inspiration*
― mick signals, Monday, 30 April 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
I could try to unpack this single NANCY panel for the next twelve hours and still not scratch the surface: pic.twitter.com/85k5jAhSWB— Megan Abbott (@meganeabbott) May 17, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 May 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/05/16
basically this
― frogbs, Friday, 18 May 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
is that a John Stanley?
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Friday, 18 May 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
frogbs' post is some baller all-time nancy content
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 May 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
xp yep that's from the nancy comic book by john stanley.
― visiting, Friday, 18 May 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
lovelymajorhoople 2 days agothis is getting boring-is Nancy ever going to get out of techno land???
this is getting boring-is Nancy ever going to get out of techno land???
this comment from that May 16th strip kills me because it's an old person asking if a kid will ever stop messing around with computers and do something else, which is exactly what every adult does to kids
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Friday, 18 May 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
Nancy is probably the most relatable strip in the newspaper now
https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/05/20
― frogbs, Sunday, 20 May 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
it actually elicited an audible chuckle, something no newspaper strip has done for years
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 21 May 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
I think the last time I looked forward to reading a current comic strip this much was the early '00s heyday of The Boondocks.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 21 May 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
starting to almost get *too* meta
https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/05/27
― frogbs, Thursday, 31 May 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
c'mon that's great
maybe it's churlish to say but artwork-wise she doesn't really come close to the virtuosity of bushmiller
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 31 May 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
nancy should've ended after bushmiller died imo. i like this new artist ok but i feel like her stuff would be just as good if she were drawing her own characters rather than her own versions of nancy and sluggo. (and yeah i realize that drawing a legacy strip that's already in a lot of papers results in more exposure for her work, which is fair.)
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 31 May 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
The new strip has a melancholy, introverted sensibility that wasn't really in the Bushmiller comics. I think of Nancy similarly to Calvin ... she seemed unflappable and capable of anything. New Nancy seems a little more unsure of herself.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 31 May 2018 23:10 (five years ago) link
huh really? i feel like old nancy was constantly getting blindsided by stuff, flummoxed by people acting cruelly
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 31 May 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
I'm glad this thread keeps getting bumped because it reminds me to get caught up on the latest strips, still love it!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 31 May 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
maybe i am mashing her up with charlie brown in my head but i don't think entirely - i'll see if i can dig some examples out tomorrow when i have access to my book
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 31 May 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
maybe it's churlish to say but artwork-wise she doesn't really come close to the virtuosity of bushmillerI mean, duh? She's a baby cartoonist, he was a zen genius who just saw a 300pp book published analysing a single strip Legacy strips are poison and ownership should always remain with the generating artist, BUT Jaimes is fantastic and I doubt there's been a better successor on any daily post-1950
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Friday, 1 June 2018 00:19 (five years ago) link