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People are suddenly screaming at each other about 80-year-old comic strip character Nancy
- Thread starter DrFunk
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Cross-posting from the other thread but the original angry-eyebrows Marmaduke was replaced with the more Family Circus-esque style later on:
I would love if Marmaduke got the Nancy treatment and got an artist who followed the tone of the first strips.
I would love if Marmaduke got the Nancy treatment and got an artist who followed the tone of the first strips.
Okay, so I started from the beginning on the website (which is in 1996, so both of the Gilchrists were still on), and honestly, it's not terrible. Most of them aren't good, but they're much closer in tone to the originals, and there are some decent strips peppered about. It seems like the comic only changed to the tone of the late '00s and early '10s after Brad Gilchrist stopped writing for it.
This did get a laugh out of me:
This did get a laugh out of me:
I was on my phone all day so I kept checking in to see if someone had posted it yet.Nobody's posted today's strip? NancyERA is slacking.
My favorite by far.it's just, well, not that funny and has been done in just about every other comic strip lol
now this one posted some pages back is indeed absolutely hilarious
Everything I've seen from Bushmiller's Nancy so far has been top-tier and has aged amazingly well. Honestly surprised I never knew it existed, but I'm excited to know that I have a lot to catch up on!
Olivia Jaimes' take on it has been pretty good so far, and it appears to be somewhat faithful to Bushmiller's work. It should only improve over time and I look forward to following it.
Gilchrist's run on the other hand fills me with an unfathamable anger. From the art style to the content, it's all terrible. Lord I hate it so much.
Olivia Jaimes' take on it has been pretty good so far, and it appears to be somewhat faithful to Bushmiller's work. It should only improve over time and I look forward to following it.
Gilchrist's run on the other hand fills me with an unfathamable anger. From the art style to the content, it's all terrible. Lord I hate it so much.
Also why am I the first person to edit this. It should be a template in every popgaf thread.
For the record I have nothing against vaporwave.
For the record I have nothing against vaporwave.
Like many here I have never heard of Nancy until this thread popped up and now I think i might be a fan. The bot one and the video game one by the new artist crack me up each time i see them. The old ones are also fantastic as well. The ones from the previous artist probably explain why I have never heard of this comic strip. I think i have cracked a smile at one of them so far and the rest are just bad.
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:
The only funny part of this is that it turns out he already did the same joke 11 years before.
omfg
I made a blank version for use with any item:
For example:
We've come full circle.
I made a blank version for use with any item:
For example:
It's so meta, bwhahaha.
First evidence I've found of Nancy having ears
Nancy a telepath fuck me
Kanye's new album just dropped.Also why am I the first person to edit this. It should be a template in every popgaf thread.
For the record I have nothing against vaporwave.
I used to read Hägar the Horrible,but I haven't read a newspaper with comic strips in for a long time.
First evidence I've found of Nancy having ears
Damn that's a creepy ass looking she's giving the back of Fritzi's skull.
I really love what I've seen of the old Nancy comics, at least. Good for the cartoonist for booting it back up, let her do what she wants.
edit: Oh wait, it's a new cartoonist. Oh well, be mad at the creator for selling the rights to someone who you don't find funny? Or don't be mad, don't you have better things to worry about?
edit2: Damn I lol'd at that last one on the post below me. I'm gonna buy a Nancy omnibus right now, funny I was just thinking about Nancy earlier today because one of my favorite Instagram's posts a lot of the strips (@bittycar, they post a lot of old animation and cartoon stuff. Worth a follow.)
edit: Oh wait, it's a new cartoonist. Oh well, be mad at the creator for selling the rights to someone who you don't find funny? Or don't be mad, don't you have better things to worry about?
edit2: Damn I lol'd at that last one on the post below me. I'm gonna buy a Nancy omnibus right now, funny I was just thinking about Nancy earlier today because one of my favorite Instagram's posts a lot of the strips (@bittycar, they post a lot of old animation and cartoon stuff. Worth a follow.)
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Nobody else has to try to not read the aunt's name as Fritzl, as in Josef Fritzl? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case
Doesn't he only talk about stuff by Comics Kingdom? Nancy isn't part of that so it's never come up.
I think it was because they provided the comics for the newspaper he read when he started the site.
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Oh by the way... what's the source on this? I couldn't find any article or story about this, but maybe my Googling is weak because it's late.
There's no source on this... Gilchrist is getting a lot of hate here but he basically just turned the strip into a voice for his own interests (apparently the dude is a singer/songwriter and a big fan of classic music and even moved to Nashville for that).
To be fair to him, he replaced someone in the 90s who basically turned Nancy into a female Calvin from Calvin & Hobbs and back then he was actually viewed as someone taking the comic "back to the basics", but I do agree his humor ain't quite there.
Arent his first nancy strips actually made with his brother as writer though?
Also he did take it back to it basics by the end, but not the nancy basics but bushmiller's fritzi ritz basics it seems (and not as good as him).
nancy has no chill
There are the only Gilcrest one's that I've seen that are any good.
Not a good one, but it's a pun on "streaming"
is there even a joke here
Gilchrist perfectly exemplifies the degradation of our priorities and values over the last 30 years.
fuck off guy
Signed, the elite.
I don't have a source, hang me out to dry. I just have a good sense of smell. I could be way off base, but I seriously doubt it.
Anyhow, a couple of my posts might have been a bit incendiary and I'm the first to admit it.
I'm also super in love with out of context Nancy panels. I've been a fan of almost Bushmiller for almost 30 years but only started seeing single panels this week or so because of GIS.
Disclaimer: I don't know if the third one is Bushmiller.
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