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

lol the ott-ness makes it better imo

so good. is there a coffee table book yet??

nhex's take is my take on her whole take on nancy period. i'm not mad at it tho, beats the hell outta gilchrist.

I took a look at the first Jaimes strip collection at the bookstore and was disappointed that 1) it’s in color 2) it looks like it has JPEG artifacts or some such poor reproduction. No sale.

is it running in B&W anywhere at all? she seems to be drawing it in/for colour, would assume a B&W book would require someone spotting every single strip

Iirc, Jaimes draws and colors the strips on an iPad. It also seems like any papers still running daily strips run them in color (the last time I looked at the Houston paper--admittedly awhile ago--they were cut down from two b&w pages to the color back page of the culture/style section).

I haven’t clapped eyes on a daily comics page in aeons but I assumed they were still black and white

Guess I also assumed that the color strips were produced in the traditional way where the artist hands in a black and white version and some hack at the syndicate does colors.

https://i.imgur.com/A1ThYI0.gif
Honestly I just want to know there's a legit answer to that puzzle!

Yes.

Stack the cake

1 becomes 2, 2 becomes 4, cut 3 stacked into 6, cut 7 stacked in half

#justup2L8thoughts

ahhh stacking. ok.

thanks!

yep, slice it once horizontally through the middle, then do the remaining three cuts in this pattern:

   \ /
    x
___/_\___
  /   \

Such timing! I just had a whole discussion abt Nancy w my coworker yesterday, and then looked at the Fantagraphics collections which are all super out of print and $$$$ :(

I hate answers like that because you're just going to fuck up the frosting.

these are pedagogical cake scenarios, the real party is the math

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/07/26

Such timing! I just had a whole discussion abt Nancy w my coworker yesterday, and then looked at the Fantagraphics collections which are all super out of print and $$$$ :(

i am so called out by today's "nancy"

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/08/19

well, at least the plus side is that i can check "read nancy" off my to-do list for the day

(yes, this is true, i literally have a daily to-do list with "read nancy" as an item on it)

so good

lmao that's great

nancy, why you gotta neoliberal so hard

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/08/20

hah

okay, i like that one

LABOR DAY: https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/09/07

haha, too much.

if there were comics like that in the paper when I was a kid it would've blown my mind

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/09/03/nancy-the-labor-day-tradition-continues/

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/06/18

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/10/13

heh love that little tear

Me and my partner for the last 20 years

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/12/15

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2021/01/02

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2021/03/28

https://www.gocomics.com/heartofthecity/2021/04/01

eh?

Consider the date. Consider who created said strip today.

mmm hmm got it

Might as well have posted the other: https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2021/04/01

...which calls back a gag from this same time last year: https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2020/04/01

hah! did not catch that at all.

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2021/05/06

The 'Featured Comment' is a humdinger.

Labor Day!

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2021/09/06

In the grand tradition - excellent

I have some OG examples of labor day nancys at home - will see if I can dig them out

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?

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2022/04/01

Wild ride in the comments.

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

another rare 'actually pretty good' Gilchrist era strip

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRjsvw-XMAYCT11?format=jpg&name=medium