mods are asleep, post the worst nancy strip you can find.
Jesus christ. Gilchrist is horrendous
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People are suddenly screaming at each other about 80-year-old comic strip character Nancy
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Jesus christ. Gilchrist is horrendous
I for one, can't stand the need to bold everything for emphasis.More Gilchrist:
The Gil comics are so bad, the aunt and boyfriend are way to young to have these opinions.
Dude's humor is so bad, he should get into drawing soft core porn, he could make some money on paetron.
It doesn't even have the decency to be weird bad like Heathcliff or Marmaduke.
Dude's humor is so bad, he should get into drawing soft core porn, he could make some money on paetron.
It doesn't even have the decency to be weird bad like Heathcliff or Marmaduke.
I suggest you never take a look at an American comic book.
Gilchrist almost kept my generation from discovering this masterpiece. Another crime in itself.
This thread is wonderful. I had no idea about Nancy, sadly, but the original strips are brilliant and the new artist is bringing back that same quality.
The previous fellow just isn't funny at all. It's almost tragic how little he kept of the original spirit.
No spark. Other newspaper strips have been able to combine humor with a bit of spice and innuendo but the dude failed even at that. It's painfully bland.
The previous fellow just isn't funny at all. It's almost tragic how little he kept of the original spirit.
No spark. Other newspaper strips have been able to combine humor with a bit of spice and innuendo but the dude failed even at that. It's painfully bland.
The earliest Guy strips on the Go Comics are actually pretty decent. Seems like he got lazy or his writing partner was the actual hero there.
Me 3 days ago: what the fuck is a Nancy?
Me today: Olivia Jaimes perfectly transfers and modernizes the qualities that made the Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy a classic, qualities that were lost ever since Guy Gilchrist took over. Olivia Jaimes is not changing Nancy but rather bringing it back to what it once was.
Me today: Olivia Jaimes perfectly transfers and modernizes the qualities that made the Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy a classic, qualities that were lost ever since Guy Gilchrist took over. Olivia Jaimes is not changing Nancy but rather bringing it back to what it once was.
I think they're both the evil twin.
I like a lot of the new ones. The Bushmiller ones are god-tier though. Nancy may be my new favorite comic strip
Everyone else is not drawn in the same artstyle as Fritzi. It would be funny instead of creepy if there weren't those accusations of rape.
Oh God. Oh God.At least he was decent as the serial killer from "Too Many Cooks"
Its not like bushmiller didnt use fritzi as a sexy lady in his strips (heard here thay she wasnt a bimbo at the beggining, something that is clearly not true and btw he didnt create fritzi either but he got the original comic from Larry Wittington), but his jokes are a million times better, and eyecandy if used sporadically is not bad.
Also the shitty Guy Gilchrist clearly didnt want to draw a nancy comic but an archie one, he changed completly the artsyle, and the phil character is also clearly a selfinsert.
The book burying one, holy shit LOL
Yeah, reading up this thread this is how I'm feeling.
I spent a few minutes poking around in the archives just now, looking at random strips from the first few years of his run, and I really don't think its quality being partially due to the length of time he was doing it is the case, honestly? His jokes are bad (even the ones close to the original style are overexplained, ruining the joke) even in the 90s when he was just starting. He was already doing the music stuff and drawing her aunt like that in 1997:
More Gilchrist:
The only funny part of this is that it turns out he already did the same joke 11 years before.
Sending to a myriad of teacher friends right now....so good
As a teacher who just got back from a spring break of slacking off, watching anime, and playing video games, this comic spoke to me on a spiritual level.
We're only a bit over a week into this new author/reboot, and it's insane how much better it is.
So ive been poking more about Bushmiller's strip, and discovered that before he added nancy and it was just a Fritzi strip, he even created phil.
So what Gilchrist wanted to do it seems was really a Fritzi Ritz strip instead of nancy one but they probably didnt let him get rid completely of nancy.
And even then Bushmiller's fritzi ritz strips are better and funnier than the shit Gilchrist was trying to pass for a romantic and old people nostalgia strip.
So what Gilchrist wanted to do it seems was really a Fritzi Ritz strip instead of nancy one but they probably didnt let him get rid completely of nancy.
And even then Bushmiller's fritzi ritz strips are better and funnier than the shit Gilchrist was trying to pass for a romantic and old people nostalgia strip.
More Gilchrist:
For someone that took this comic over, he seemed to hate the main character
I didn't expect that last panel. I laughed.Nobody's posted today's strip? NancyERA is slacking.
Clipped a bunch I liked-
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I've seen a number of young animators and comic artists over the years that were hip to classic Nancy and cited it as an inspiration, but otherwise yeah the Gilchrist era made everyone entirely disinterested in Nancy, if not outright hate it.
I agree here; the Antichrist strips are awful to the point of being unsettlingly creepy; but the change is so radical I do understand why previous fans may be upset. That might not be a bad thing though.
I also agree that the original strips are more timeless and that the newer ones aren't so great, though they are much closer to the true spirit of the comic and aren't abominations.
never even heard of nancy before randomly coming into this thread but let me tell you im now living for this comic
