Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for May 06, 2021

Don’t really understand this comic. The girl talks like she’s a university student, but looks like an 8-year-old kid. Are 8-year-olds really in university? Maybe thanks to early childhood education like Sesame Street, they are.

Did you know you have spinach in your teeth?

“So the snake eat its own tail. If a discourse becomes increasingly recursive it loses its relevance and dies.”

We’re a comic strip. Try being funny.

I suggest Agnes say: People don’t want to have, people want others not to have.

Is a like a vote? In case it is I’ll like my post.

Nancy has been full of herself for some time now, but now it’s spread to her school mates & Sluggo!!

A cartoon that offers us something different? Or one that caters to popular taste?

Well let’s see. However I answer will constitute “giving the algorithm information about what I want to see.” If enough people answer with the usual whines about what they think the writer/artist should be doing, would that make the whole enterprise a choose-your-own-adventure? By short-circuiting the creative choices of the cartoonist? By reducing the whole thing to a question of a common denominator?

Lots of potential “if X, then Y in that.”

What I want is for the cartoonist to keep offering her own unique take on this strip, these characters.

I can’t imagine a worse development than artists just regurgitating what the loudest whiners think they want or need.

Have you seen the audience?

Agnes appears to be going “all in” on that social media in that first panel.

OUR vote would be for the artist to quit pretending to be drawing the Nancy strip and venture out on her own. Since this artist took over, Nancy turned into a teenager – with all the angst of being a teen – but none of the fun! If the artists who have been drawing One Big Happy and LuAnn could venture out on their own, this artist should go ahead and follow her inclinations. If she wants to be writing a strip about Teen-Age Wee Pals, she should go ahead, and become courageous enough to launch her own concepts. Let someone who appreciates the rich history of Third Grade Nancy to allow Nancy to return to those childhood years when children still smiled and had fun with their friends.

We once believed that reducing the part which comic strips played in the newspapers was one of the reasons newspapers all over the country were failing. Nancy was launched in the midst of a world-wide Depression and remained third-grade Nancy throughout World Wars, police actions, and epidemics of polio, mumps, measles, whooping cough, scarlet fever, chicken pox and smallpox – to name a few of the illnesses which claimed countless lives every year, and in the days when vaccines were a hope for the future – not a guaranteed presence in our every day lives.

We no longer believe that comic strips could rescue newspapers from the scrap heap – because the comic strips have become just as dismal as the rest of the bad news in he the rest of the newspaper.

If the artist is really only interested in Wee Pals suffering from teen-age angst – then let her find the courage to produce her own strip. That’s what Ernie Bushmiller did when he introduced Nancy. At one point, the artists who gave us Ruthie in One Big Happy and LuAnn found the courage to launch their own strips with their own characters. But if she ever does find the courage to launch her own new characters with their individual personalities – at least consider allowing Teen Wee Pals to occasionally have some fun!

Where are the voting choices?

Hi, where is the poll? Lol, I kind of did expect that Olivia would be serious about following through on this

I really liked the wry humor here today!

Agnes: “Speaking of knowing things, today’s comic strip is sponsored by Skillshare. Skillshare has 1000s of courses for all your learning needs, from simple animation techniques, to elaborate cake-decorating. Go to skillshare.com to get your journey started. And for a limited time, enter the discount code `Nancy` for a 1-month free trial plus 15% off the first year’s subscription.”

All I want is a return to the daily gags like Fritzi sunbathing in the back yard and Nancy “Oh I forgot to water the lawn” out of sight turning on the tap to the sprinkler. Those were the fun Nancy strips…this is Not Nancy!!!

I love my friends and they love me

We’re just as close as we can be

And just because we really care

Whatever we get, we share!

I got it from Agnes

She got it from Jim

We all agree it must have been

Louise who gave it to him

Now, she got it from Harry

Who got it from Marie

And everybody knows that Marie

Got it from me

Giles got it from DaphneShe got it from Joan

Who picked it up in County Cork

A-kissin’ the Blarney Stone

Pierre gave it to Sheila

Who must have brought it there

He got it from Francois and Jacques

A-ha!

Lucky Pierre!

Max got it from Edith

Who gets it every spring

She got it from her Daddy

Who just gives her everything

She then gave it to Daniel

Whose spaniel has it now

Our dentist even got it

And we’re still…wondering how!

Ah, but I got it from Agnes

Or maybe it was Sue

Or Millie or Billie or Gillie or Willie

It doesn’t matter who

It might have been at the club

Or at the pub, or in the loo

And if you will be my friend

Then I might

Mind you, I said, “might”…

Give it to you!

can we vote now?

Agnes: “Hmmm…is she really asking me a question, or is that a piece of performance art?”

There is really no other obvious choice. Nancy needs a cat. Everyone loves cats. Cats are always trending up. Is Bill the Cat available for a crossover? #excathedra

BTW: Olivia is a genius. Lean more into the Vampire side of Nancy. Goth is cool, isn’t it?

Maybe Agnes will surprise us and say something like:

“I am now going to refuse to be a shill for social media anymore….. "

But if she did, I would be sad…. because GoComics is a form of social media, and we would lose this great cartoon.

“We shouldn’t pander to the lowest common denominator, even if that’s where the money lies.”

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“As John Lennon once remarked after seeing Frozen 2, ‘Do the next write thing.’“

Agnes should say, “Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow, the bird is the word!” Or maybe, “Scram gravy ain’t wavey.”

“Don’t make this political, like the Republicans always do.”

speaking of algorithms, when you engage someone throwing a temper tantrum with replies, it gets bumped to the top as the preview comment. just let them ragequit in the corner by themselves.

“Sluggo is lit!”…

“Astonish me”