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| Ernie Bushmiller
Posted on 12/13/2022 4:29:10 PM PST by DallasBiff
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Along with "Peanuts", "Nancy" was my favorite comic.
For you younins out there, there was once a time, where every household got something called a "newspaper", and the kids would tear apart the newspaper to find the comic section.
And from you old geezers out there, I know Aunt Fritzi was hot.
To: DallasBiff
Jaimes is not good and is not a return to Bushmiller style.
It’s horrible.
They’re all bad after Bushmiller.
Ernie is great.
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posted on
12/13/2022 4:36:56 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: DallasBiff
” I know Aunt Fritzi was hot.”
Hot? I wanted to grow up and be like the Dragon Lady from Terry and the Pirates.
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posted on
12/13/2022 4:43:00 PM PST
by
ryderann
To: DallasBiff
I once came to know a guy who did a daily cartoon and was also a Christian missionary. His strip was called Downstown and was one of my favorites. He quit the strip before I met him. I asked why and he told me that he found that having to be sarcastic for the strip was making its way into every aspect of his life.
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posted on
12/13/2022 4:49:25 PM PST
by
cyclotic
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To: ryderann; DallasBiff
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I think she qualifies as a beauty. For a decade that was the point of her comic strip. Gilchrist slutted her up a bit, though, which was a mistake. Ernie Bushmiller defined the comic strip's greatness, and he cannot be replaced.
He would joke about the people who said they wouldn't read the comic strip because it was too simple. He rebutted that by the time you resolve not to read it, you already had.
I have a collection of Nancy strips, and was a regular reader during the Bushmiller years. One section included a portion of "How to Read Nancy". I think they are purposefully reading too much into it.
Certainly the readership at the time did not see this as a surrealist dada-ist or Dali-esque strip (despite some creative illusions and optical art). Bushmiller certainly went to extremes in his minimalism, and he was unconcerned about anachrronisms or whether Sluggo's background was Bowery Boy or Country Bumpkin. Whatever it took to deliver the joke. I think he would be amused by attempts to rationalize long-running comic strips into a consistent canon.
I think he wanted to earn a good living (check.) and give people a light chuckle for 5 seconds. That was enough for him. At the same time, he created the indelible characters of Nancy, Fritzi Ritz (Nancy-fied version), Sluggo, and Rollo the RIch Kid (Irma was a regular, but quite delible).
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posted on
12/13/2022 4:57:22 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
To: DallasBiff
I remember when our local paper (Tulsa World) carried both the NANCY and FRITZI RITZ cartoons in the 1960s.
I haven’t looked at newspaper cartoons since Calvin and Hobbes ceased being published.
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posted on
12/13/2022 4:58:29 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(BACK in Facebook Jail for quoting a line from the Dean Martin movie "Rough Night In Jericho.")
To: Dr. Sivana
Well I did not know the strip "Nancy" was so cerebral.
All I remember is getting a laugh, and when a newly adopted dog decided to pee on the strip, while I was reading the comics on the floor.
I was pissed.
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posted on
12/13/2022 5:09:26 PM PST
by
DallasBiff
(Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
To: DallasBiff
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posted on
12/13/2022 5:21:51 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
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To: cyclotic
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posted on
12/13/2022 5:23:39 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido
Downstown
Stupid autocorrect.
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posted on
12/13/2022 5:24:35 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
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To: DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff
I never cared for Nancy. Never got the point of the comic.
My grandmother, however, LOVED it. She would crack up over some of what I considered some of the most inane strips.
I would try to read it trying to figure out what she saw in it. I never did get it.
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posted on
12/13/2022 5:51:55 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
To: metmom
Yeah, “Nancy” always seemed like a very lame strip. Do you happen to remember Major Hoople and “Our Boarding House”?
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posted on
12/13/2022 5:54:37 PM PST
by
Blurb2350
(posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
To: DallasBiff
Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite.
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posted on
12/13/2022 5:56:45 PM PST
by
EvilCapitalist
(81 million votes my ass.)
To: DallasBiff
I used to pray for Brenda Starr and Mark Trail to die in a firefly plane crash.
To: metmom
My mother was a teenager when Nancy first appeared in the strip. I remember her making a comment to the effect that she never thought much of the strip.
To: DallasBiff
I was able to get a Gilchrist, hand drawn Fritzi. While not my most valuable possession, it’s one of my favorites.
To: Dr. Sivana
Reminds me of...
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posted on
12/13/2022 6:11:41 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: DallasBiff
I know Aunt Fritzi was hot.Yeah, but she was no Betty Boop...
![](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bn8MLSU3W5M/VuT79xFjgqI/AAAAAAAAEJA/YWdiQQfftfInPTbLsZfGH4HAn9Dc6ugPg/s1600/Betty%2BBoop%2BM.D..jpg)
Of course, there was always Daisy Mae...
![](http://www.tikiroom.com/img/9067x4f5ab9a3.jpg)
Then there was Blondie. Sigh...
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posted on
12/13/2022 6:12:03 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Isn’t that Moonbeam McSwine ? Daisy Mae has blonde hair ..
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posted on
12/13/2022 6:19:42 PM PST
by
piroque
("When the SHTF I'm gonna hunker down until all those idiots kill each other. " )
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