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

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Guy Gilchrist: ahh, time to draw the comic strip Nancy *massive bong rip*

*turns on classic rock FM for inspiration*

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

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/05/16

basically this

is that a John Stanley?

frogbs' post is some baller all-time nancy content

xp yep that's from the nancy comic book by john stanley.

lovelymajorhoople 2 days ago

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

Nancy is probably the most relatable strip in the newspaper now

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/05/20

it actually elicited an audible chuckle, something no newspaper strip has done for years

I think the last time I looked forward to reading a current comic strip this much was the early '00s heyday of The Boondocks.

starting to almost get *too* meta

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/05/27

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

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 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.

huh really? i feel like old nancy was constantly getting blindsided by stuff, flummoxed by people acting cruelly

I'm glad this thread keeps getting bumped because it reminds me to get caught up on the latest strips, still love it!

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

maybe it's churlish to say but artwork-wise she doesn't really come close to the virtuosity of bushmiller

I 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

happy to read a big collection of Bobby London's to see, though

Has there been any suggestion of who she actually is, yet?

I think it's settled into a comforting but rather blah groove since the amazing first few weeks. But at least one strip per week makes me laugh, which means it's 20% better than almost every newspaper strip ever.

I recently discovered this strip (now finished) which went under the radar in the UK - it's a twee but a pretty likeable kin to Peanuts / Calvin&Hobbes / the new Nancy: https://www.gocomics.com/culdesac/2017/05/09

I think it's settled into a comforting but rather blah groove since the amazing first few weeks. But at least one strip per week makes me laugh, which means it's 20% better than almost every newspaper strip ever.

otm. The last week or so has been kind of meh, but I'm eager to see how things develop.

(and anyway, the greatest strips had their dull weeks here and there, so I'm not too worried.)

Has there been any suggestion of who she actually is, yet?

I think it's highly unlikely that she's anyone other than a young woman who doesn't want her crappy early webcomics dug up and abused by randos. If it turns out this is Brunetti having another swing, though, I'll still be impressed.

If it's Brunetti his artwork has deteriorated p badly

well, remember how bad he was before Schizo

Interview w/Olivia Jaimes

https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/yweqz7/the-woman-behind-nancy-has-made-an-80-year-old-comic-funny-again

Love that headline. "This thing neither you nor I paid attention to until three months ago is awesome now, but don't worry, it must have sucked before."

Interesting interview!

I'll overlook that the writer begin it with "Not sure if you guys heard, but"

https://i.imgur.com/cpxBvt2.jpg

Something about Fritzi's eyes in panel 3 rings a faint bell, but I still don't have a guess.

Love that headline. "This thing neither you nor I paid attention to until three months ago is awesome now, but don't worry, it must have sucked before."

Are you a Gilchrist fan?

i only ever see the 'featured comment' but they are routinely incredible

Michael Thorton 4 days ago

Gee, I wonder why people don’t use Android phones which have expandable storage thanks to SD cards…

Oh, wait – they’re lazy lotus-eating dilletantes who want everything done for them and so take the easy way out and bite the Apple.

(Open-source zindabad – score one for the nerds. We face much less problems than this. Heck, my twenty-year-old kid brother makes his own smartwatch OSes.)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YnseibzD4jg/StQasfxmRrI/AAAAAAAAA7g/7yzifv2g0Jw/s400/nancybook.png

(from The Nancy Book by Joe Brainard)

Comments on the new strips are a window into another world

CHUCKBOWEN1 5 DAYS AGO
Actually, we have periodically taught algebra in primary schools. And the kids mastered it. Math reforms are always being pushed by the professional organizations, like NCTM, and by educational reform laws at both the state and federal levels. So, it is proven possible, and at some level, has been required of schools.

With modern instructional methods, e.g., the progression of mastery as students age from concrete to semi-concrete to abstract algorithms, it is quite possible for children to think mathematically.

The problem is not the kids. It’s the backlash from adults. That was true when I started teaching Second Grade in the 1970’s. “New Math” suffered pervasive complaints and ridicule and died off within a few years as.

The most recent iteration is the ‘Common Core’ (http://www.corestandards.org/Math/), which is frequently the butt of negative memes in social media, as well as a target of unhappy parents’ complaints at PTO’s and school board meetings. It even garners the sometime attention of the broadcast and print media.

As evidenced in this comment stream, most of the complaints boil down to two types. 1) Little kids can’t learn that stuff, because even (I) don’t understand it. (Yes, they can. Instruction has advanced. See “concrete =>semi-concrete =>abstract algorithms,” above.) 2) Little kids can’t learn that stuff, because I didn’t have to until high school. (Yes they can. See research summaries linked from the Common Core website URL, above.)

In short, it is a fact that young kids taught appropriately can learn to operate and apply a type of algebra. It is also true that what kids can learn is irrelevant in public schools, because schools don’t operate rationally They exist politically in the American democratic environment. Schools are subjected to the whims of public opinion, politicians’ ambitions, and lobbyists. So what it is possible for kids succumbs to whatever happens to be the political flavor of the day.

That comment seems pretty sane to me?

Interesting interview!

I'll overlook that the writer begin it with "Not sure if you guys heard, but"

― Chuck_Tatum

and the bizarre claim that the strip "wasn't funny since the eisenhower era" before posting the august 8, 1959 strip - apparently when kennedy got elected the bushmiller abruptly stopped being funny?

sad lol:

"I grimace when I hear the notification sound and think, 'what new pain is this?'” Jaimes told me.

i understand it, there no doubt a lot of insincere gocomics reactionaries who would love to use a dorothy parker quote as a pretext for talking about why jaimes is the Worst Person in the World

That comment seems pretty sane to me?

It's certainly a nuanced opinion on Jaimes` work, and one imagines there's plenty more consideration of her craft in that dude's posting history.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/nancy-more-relatable-ever-at-85-180969865/

https://amp.dailydot.com/unclick/sluggo-is-lit-meme/

so did the person who wrote that not _read_ last monday's nancy, or simply not _understand_ it?

great strip

https://www.cbr.com/nancy-olivia-jaimes-first-public-convention-appearance/amp/

this is yep

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/09/14

Someone forgot to inform Olivia Jaimes that newspaper strips are meant to be uniformly terrible nowadays.

it's good https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/09/25

reports from Jaimes’ CXC appearance are all 👌

So I gather she disguised her voice? Is there any chance it isnt even a woman? I had this sudden "what if its Nicholas Gurewich" thought but ... eh its not quite his style.

I would think the syndicate's initial press release saying "yes, it's really a woman" can be trusted; dunno what reason there would be to lie about it

Yeah yr right, it seems like an odd move to make otherwise.

also since reports estimate that Jaimes is under 25, that means Gur3w1tch would have started uni when he was 8 or 9 years old