Caroline Cash is getting some press after taking on the Nancy comic strip this year. The latest is her old hometown alternative newspaper the Charleston City Paper where cartoonist Steve Stegelin profiles Cash. Cash left town in 2014 after graduating from SOA to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). “Even though […]
Author and TCJ comics reviewer Frank M. Young looks at the new Nancy by Caroline Cash, with a hat tip to Ernie Bushmiller‘s original and the Olivia Jaimes‘ reboot, at Prospect Magazine. Comics characters often outlive their creators. Some have carried on for decades, others more than a century, picked up by new artists and […]
Fran Krause, Nate Fakes, Caroline Cash, Keith Knight, and Deon Parson from the Cartoonists File. Fran Krause’s Deep Dark Fears Comics has the wonderful ability to seamlessly flow between the imagined or metaphorical and the real…The quaint but macabre swipe comic Deep Dark Fears by Fran Krause is an excellent example of this singular power. […]
Today’s cartoonists paying homage to the cartoonists of yesteryear. Bushmiller and Cash, Nancy and Sluggo On Monday Caroline Cash celebrated the debut appearances of Nancy and Sluggo down to the minute. Not sure about that last measurement being accurate but the years and days were right on.By the time Sluggo showed up Nancy was the […]
Was distracted by some other projects lately and fell behind on opining and reporting comic strip news.New Year New ArtCaroline Cash took on the Nancy comic strip on Thursday January 1, 2026 and in showing Nancy through the ages, or artists if you prefer, nailed her opening show.An Old Year’s Day AnniversaryDecember 31, 2025 marked […]
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.GoComics’ latest […]
The resurgence of Nancy takes another step forward next month when Caroline Cash takes control of the ninety-three year old comic strip star. New life invigorated the Nancy comic strip when the anonymous Olivia Jaimes took over in 2018 to varied response from rejection to high praise, with the praise getting most of the media’s […]
A month ago Nancy said goodbye to Olivia, now Olivia is saying goodbye to Nancy.Last month it was revealed that “Olivia Jaimes” was retiring from the Nancy comic strip. After nearly a decade of creating the strip, Olivia Jaimes has retired. The new Nancy strips will debut January 1, 2026. Nancy classics (by previous Nancy creator Ernie Bushmiller) will run until […]
The Failure of G. B. Trudeau My childhood dream, like the popularity of print newspapers, inevitably faded. I had long been bewitched by the comics pages folded into each edition of the Times-Picayune, the newspaper with which I grew up in my suburb of New Orleans. The pages stood out because of the implicit respect […]
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 […]
Some upcoming events that may be in your area of interest. With Harry Bliss, Edward Gorey, Al Hirschfeld, Ralph Steadman, William H. Walker, and a supporting cast of thousands including members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and The Usual Gang of Idiots.Motion Lines: How Cartoonists Draw Movement Featuring over 100 examples from the […]
May Day celebrations seem a bit muted this year, as Italian cartoonist Enrico Bertuccioli (“Ebert”) notes in this Cartoon Movement panel.It’s nice to know the economy is screwed everywhere and not just in the country that just noted a special centennial celebration. Gosh, it seems like yesterday. Granted, the worldwide collapse is not as dramatic in […]
There are times when Retail gets into crabby, insider niches that only those who have worked at their local mall will find funny. On the other hand, “refreshingly honest” is a compliment, and it can also be a public service.For instance, I can justify making the “It must be free!” joke when an item won’t […]