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| How does Nancy get her hair to do... that? |
The beloved Comics Outta Context may be gone forever, but there is still at least
one comics account on Twitter that has continued to delight me throughout 2024. Obviously, I'm referring to
Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller, maintained by the indispensable Johnny Callicutt. Each day, he will post panels or even full comic strips from the super-long-lived comic strip
Nancy. What's great about the account is that it pulls from different eras -- from the early days when the strip was known as
Fritzi Ritz and focused on Nancy's adult caretaker to the more recent strips written and drawn by Olivia James. But, as the name indicates, the focus is on
Nancy's peak decades when the strip was done by the great Ernie Bushmiller (1905-1982).
The simplicity of
Nancy makes it perfect for the kind of parodies I do, so here are a bunch of those all at once.
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| Sensitivity: not Nancy's thing. |
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| This is secretly my favorite of the bunch. Don't tell the others. |
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| Nancy's relationship with Sluggo is complex. |
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| "This tiny ice cream cone displeases me!" |
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| Aunt Fritzi doesn't like Nancy. |
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| Ouch, huh? |
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| It's a valid question. |
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| Alfalfa has gone uptown, it looks like. |
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| Aunt Fritzi still doesn't like Nancy. |
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| Who needs Nancy when you have Sluggo? |
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| TRIVIA: This was the first color Nancy. |
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| You'll make it, Sluggo. Eventually. |
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| A brutal joke for brutal times. |
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| See, this is why Aunt Fritzi doesn't like Nancy. |
