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 […]
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 […]
Last week for the first time I am aware of since Olivia Jaimes took over the Nancy comic strip in 2018 it went into rerun status, using Jaimes strips from various past years beginning on Tuesday September 2. Okay, she gets a break like all the other cartoonists. And setting up alternative cartoonists like they […]
Nancy has taken a strange turn lately. Not in a historically strange Nancy comic strip way, but in a strange for cartoonist Olivia Jaimes way. Since Olivia started riffing on cartoonists and comics a couple weeks ago (the change struck even earlier in July) it seems she has taken to emulating the prime Ernie Bushmiller […]
Midweek Olivia Jaimes began what a series of Nancy strips riffing on her profession. While Richard Thompson in the throwback Cul de Sac show us how those unorganized underground cartoonists probably created those jam comix. Previewing next week’s Reuben Awards yesterday we had Intelligent Life, Macanudo, and Thatababy celebrating recognizable comic strips of the past […]
Lincoln Peirce offered a bit of critical commentary in Big Nate (AMS) yesterday. It’s no secret that a lot of comic strips have outlived their creators, but, when a cartoonist gives up a strip, what happens next varies. If a strip is not in a lot of papers, the syndicate may shut it down, but […]
Our weekly respite from the political flood comes just in time. If the Night of the Chickenhawk doesn’t shake a few Deplorables out of the basket, maybe they’ll start to figure it out when they find their wall donations are going to the wrong grifter. But never mind. C’est le weekend! We’ll get in […]