Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for September 02, 2019

This reminds me of something, but I don’t know what.

She works so hard, yet she makes it look SO easy! That’s talent for you.

Major LOL before I even started reading it. Such synchronicity too. I only started reading Prince Val in the past couple of weeks. I don’t know anything about the previous artists after Hal Foster, but Thomas Yeates is awesome, imo.

https://www.comicskingdom.com/prince-valiant

Awesome Olivia, please don’t stop!!

Is that in the style of Prince Valiant??

I always knew Hal Foster was short for Hallie Foster – OJ’s true identity laid bare at last!

And the tribute to Ernie’s Labour Day strips. The “Next: Sluggo’s Response”. There is so much to love with this strip.

I legit want an old school OJ adventure strip now. She’s got time, right?

Also, hello non-Fritzi avatar.

Since most of Nancy’s “problems” sound more like teen-age problems – maybe the syndicate should let this “artist” go ahead and draw a teen-aged Nancy and let someone else take over drawing classic third-grade Nancy!

Great strip!

That is so great. Love the strip!!!!

OMG this is fantastic! I love when artists follow their own visions. Please continue on, OJ!

Nancy as a muscle girl, amazin.

HARK!!Nancy doth look much better in thy natural style.

Truly a Valiant effort.

I suppose this provides a clue as to the artist’s identity

Um…I preferred “Sluggo is Lit” from last Labor Day LOL j/k

Olivia Is really Hal Foster!

I don’t know. I rather have the Steve Canyon look, like Bernard Volpicelli Jr’s avatar.

So… this a “real” reveal of the artist (is Olivia actually Hal) or is this actually Olivia just messing with us and she duplicated his style?

Now, there’s a comic strip you don’t see lampooned every day!

Olivia is Bill Griffith!

Does anyone know where I can get some shoes like that?

A new classic is born

Am I tripping ?!!!!! Can’t WAIT to see Sluggo !!!! lol

It’s even funnier if you know that OJ is really Ted Rall.

Zippy the Pinhead!

I have finally figured out who “Olivia Jaimes” is! She is the late John Cullen Murphy!

No one seems to have mentioned Snow White. This “princess” version of Nancy reminds me of Snow White but with Nancy’s bow in her hair.

Awesome. More of this, please!

I do the coloring and lettering for Prince Valiant. I just received a new one to start working on, so this reminds me to get going!

If she looks like Prince(ss) Valiant, does this mean that this story arc is going to run for 3 months or more? :-O

Princess Nancy? Nancy Valiant?

Ice cream, the longing for ice cream, the joy of ice cream, the dread of dropped ice cream. Those were frequent subjects throughout the Bushmiller years and Olivia Jaimes has turned to the theme more than once.

Heck, it’s so much an element of Nancy tradition that this is the image that appeared on the U. S. Postal Service’s “Nancy” commemorative stamp….

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Not the most severe art shift I’ve ever seen, I’ll admit…

An older Nancy. I like her better than the other Nancy.

I always eat my ice cream cones from the bottom up.

There is definitely something funny going on here!

Her shoes and collar are hilarious!

Brilliant! :)

Eek! hard on the eyes!

This is brilliant.

Bushmiller would often do a strip for Labor Day where there was “less to draw” as a gag. For Olivia to take up the tradition is an obscure pull indeed.

https://i1.wp.com/www.dailycartoonist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/nancy-labor-day-strip.jpg

Forsooth, yon Sluggo is luminous.

Nice homage to Prince Valiant! Also a bit scary to see Nancy like this!

Prince Valiant style, oh so great!

She’s even got Valiant’s hair.

Ah a little Shakespeare

Yuk!

Well, this is terrifying.

Many thanks to @cellardoor: If you hadn’t posted this link today, I would have missed 2019 Labor Day’s strip altogether! https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/09/03/nancy-the-labor-day-tradition-continues/