It's so fascinating looking at the differences between the original and new run. Both are funny, but their approaches to humor are clearly different and take after the writer in original ways.
My first post on ERA is to point out the blades of grass in the first panel giving the middle finger to the ol' timer.
After the first two panels, I really expected this to turn into another meta-strip. Still a decent punchline but I feel like the delivery could have been handled a bit better on the visual side.
Yep an edit
Top: the Aug. 1, 1941 strip of Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy. Bottom: the Terrytoon School Daze, one of two failed animated shorts with Bushmiller's Nancy and Sluggo. The adaptation of that '41 strip starts at around 1:25. Note that the strip (which is even legible at thumbnail size) is readable in some six seconds, whereas the Terry guys ballooned the joke to some 90 seconds. The new Fantagraphics book How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels doesn't discuss why things went so wrong with the animated cartoon, unfortunately, but once you finish the book you can probably figure out why.
She's massive in that first panel, the perspective is off
She's massive in that first panel, the perspective is off
Or is that part of the joke?
Dem comments though!
Was harder than i thought it would be becuase I had to redraw the whole drawer so it worked as closing animation without drawing every frame, but here it is:
Amazing work with that .gif!Was harder than i thought it would be becuase I had to redraw the whole drawer so it worked as closing animation without drawing every frame, but here it is:
The black panels represent time passed between her walking up and down stairs to check her phone at night.
That last one. I wish it weren't so accurate lol.
It's funny. I like it.