Any Nancy (comic strip) lovers here?

I know this was a pretty dumb strip, but I used to love it as a kid and always was the first I'd read. The original author of it was the best. Why aren't there any Nancy books on sale!!!

 

I've enjoyed reading the little bit Nancy I've been able to see over the years. I've also played a some 5-Card Nancy Solitaire.

(5-Card Nancy rules can be found here.)

 

That's kinda what I liked about it, that it was dumb and kinda lame. It was relaxing to read, no need to think a lot to understand it and wasn't belly laugh enducing.

 

It's "Fritzi", and original artist Ernie Bushmiller drew her pretty easy on the eyes as well. Here's a vintage strip from the '40s:



Bushmiller was very smart to make Nancy's aunt a hottie, because people had to have *some* reason to check out his strip apart from the largely non-existant humor! (Only Carl Anderson's "Henry", with the completely bald little boy or midget or whatever the hell he was, was less comic among comic strips.)

 

I wish I remember where I saw it, but it was a lesbian publication that lauded Nancy as one of their own that they all secretly recognized as girls. It had a number of humorous clues. I'm surprised that Sluggo wasn't hailed similarly by punks as "punk before punk".

 

I always thought it was funny that Aunt Fritzi was so glamerous and beautiful while Nancy was so dorky looking. I also used to think, there are parents that look like Aunt Fritzi!?!

 

Always my favorite as a kid too.

Joe L.

 

This is only one of several books Kitchen Sink published. All out of print I believe, but they are around.

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I liked some of the old Bushmiller stuff, but I can't stand anything about the strip in the last 25 years or so.

Underground artist Howard Cruse did a must-read four-pager about 'Raising Nancies'. Here is a link.

 

Porkopolis?

 

I agree...sometimes she is, but to me in some frames she looks like she's been popping steroids - look at this coloured panel. I think I preferred the Bushmiller way.

I kind of liked this music themed one. Corny, but rare that you see a comic strip with musical humour.

 

I can't get into the new Nancy. The art is just not right. Even if the joke was really bad, I got enjoyment just by looking at the frames of the classic Bushmiller strip.

 

Looking at the frames posted here from the original strip, I realize I liked this comic more than I remembered. I wonder if I'd also enjoy "Little Lulu" and the Casper strips now?

Hey thanks for the Howard Cruse link, Michael - I've got "Stuck Rubber Baby, " and some collections of his other work, but hadn't thought to look him up on line. Glad he's still keeping busy!

(Warning - Howard Cruse's comic universe has little in common with Ernie Bushmiller's)

 

My dad recalls the NANCY comic strip from the early 40's, particularly a sequence during World War II: seems after Pearl Harbor, Nancy went around smashing all of Aunt Fritzi's vases and ceramics that were labeled, "Made In Japan." One wonders how soon before the "new" Nancy is setting fire to all the Persian rugs in the house...