Olivia Jaimes Passes Nancy to Caroline Cash
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Olivia Jaimes retires, Caroline Cash takes on the Nancy comic strip.
[L]ast week, we noticed black-and-white reruns on GoComics running in place of Jaimes’ bright, spare colored panels. These were “Nancy” strips from the Ernie Bushmiller days, who wrote and drew the comic from 1925 until his death in 1982. Wait. Where’s Olivia?
True to her mysterious ways, Jaimes quietly exited the strip and officially announced her retirement.
Rest assured, though: The modern “Nancy” will return on Jan. 1, 2026—with a new cartoonist at the helm, Ignatz and Eisner Award-winner Caroline Cash.
Andrews McMeel Syndication and GoComics has announced that pseudonymous cartoonist Olivia Jaimes has left the Nancy comic strip after seven years. Jaimes’ successor will be Caroline Cash keeping the modern tradition of having women cartoonists in control of Nancy, Sluggo, and Fritzi.
Until Caroline takes on the strip on January 1, 2026 Ernie Bushmiller daily strips will be offered to newspapers. The assumption is that Jaimes reruns will run in weekend newspapers as older Sunday strips are not formatted for modern newspaper proportions.
Eagle-eyed “Nancy” fans may remember Cash’s run as a guest artist during Jaimes’s 2024 sabbatical. Her comics appeared July 22 through Aug. 11.
“As a lifelong ‘Nancy’ fan, I’m honored to be given the opportunity to draw my favorite comic strip,” Cash says. “This is a real dream come true, and I look forward to sharing what I’ve been working on with everyone.”
Until Cash takes over in January 2026, GoComics—and the more than 100 newspapers that syndicate “Nancy”—will continue running archived content, along with a farewell strip from Jaimes, the date of which is yet to be announced.
As seen above Caroline will hew closer to the Bushmiller visual of the Nancy crew than did Olivia (if she continues with the style she used in her guest stint last year.
As was mentioned here last week the rather mystifying wording of GoComics explanation for Bushmiller reruns appearing did not convince us that Olivia was merely on a vacation.
Jaimes wishes Cash well:
“Caroline is a brilliant cartoonist, and I’m thrilled to follow her take on this character we both love so much,” Jaimes says. “I’m stepping down with a heart full of gratitude for my readers and warmth for anyone who discovered Ernie Bushmiller’s work through the new ‘Nancy.’ It’s been an honor, but it’s time to move on to the next season of my life. Like rebooting ‘Mafalda.’ Or maybe ‘Little Lulu.’”
Rachel DeSchepper’s full announcement of Olivia leaving and Caroline taking up the strip is here.
Follow “Nancy” here, or read the comic from its Bushmiller heyday in “Nancy Classics.”
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