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A Nancy Update

Published: December 24, 2025 1 minute 8 comments

Nancy is one of a handful of ongoing comic strips that can trace its origins back to over a hundred years, the others include Gasoline Alley, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, and Popeye.*

So naturally those comics pass into other cartoonists’ hands over time. That time has come for Nancy.

Caroline Cash and Nancy with Sluggo

GoComics’ latest newsletter updates the upcoming passing of the ink bottle.

The wait is almost over! Ignatz and Eisner Award-winner Caroline Cash officially takes over “Nancy” on Jan. 1.

After spending the past few months preparing her debut, Cash is ready to bring her signature wit to one of comics’ most iconic characters. “I’ve been having a blast working on my favorite comic strip,” she says. 

For those of us who thought Olivia Jaimes may produce a farewell strip for the last Sunday of 2025, that’s not happening. Instead she will bump the Ernie Bushmiller reruns from the last day of 2025.

Jaimes’ final strip will run Dec. 31. Then, mark your calendars for Jan. 1 to meet the next chapter of “Nancy”!

*there is also the ongoing Weatherbird cartoon on the front page of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Comments 8

  1. Now this whole thing brings up the question of whether last year’s sabbatical with all the guests was to find a Jaimes replacement because she was considering quitting. I think the answer yes.

  2. No loss there. When James took over, the strip took a nosedive and never recovered. She took the strip in a whole other direction that was not even humorous, let alone funny. Bushmiller must have been spinning in his grave the entire time she had the strip.

    1. Jaimes rescued the strip from a 20+ year disaster period, and brought in a whole lot of money and subscribers, and the first books of new Nancy material in decades. I missed her during her sabbatical, and I miss her now.

    2. I respectfully disagree. Olivia Jaimes’ Nancy was a lot of fun, and I think it’s a shame the strip didn’t get more hardcover collections like the first book.

    3. Well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.

      1. One Dude’s opinion is just another dude’s BS. Happy Boxing Day.

    4. I liked O Jaimes’s Nancy so much that I bought the book, the childrens’ book, and began subscribing to GoComics for the first time, and then discovered quite a few comics there that I now read every day. Nancy was imaginative, funny and the cartoonist just a master of irony. Much missed now.

  3. Agree with John, Deb, and apparently Abbie. Olivia’s Nancy was deeply creative and winningly bizarre. Hoping Caroline can be as compelling!

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