Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for June 12, 2021

Olivia does the meta so smoothly

Poochie revealing the Secrets of Life, alas, the lettering is lacking.

That final collage is very Osamu Tezuka. It’s got a real Black Jack feeling (the manga series, not the card game or the Ray Charles song).

This is a time in life, when comics are put away, but it passes

The last panel is an example of a format some strips used to use so that if an editor was pushed for space, it could be disassembled and put back together again in no fewer than five configurations. Most papers just dropped the panel entirely.

Tell me that again after you have finished vol. 15 of Akira.

Music is simple. There are 12 pitches. Most western music uses 8 of them.

How can people enjoy cartoons and comics if they’re not realistic? That’s why documentaries and science textbooks are the highest form of entertainment. The “periodic table of elements”! lol

Someone’s been reading Scott McCloud…

https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-McCloud/dp/006097625X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=NBVXDVBGUPTD&dchild=1&keywords=scott+mccloud+understanding+comics&qid=1623517534&sprefix=Scott+mccloud%2Caps%2C159&sr=8-2

CHAOS BUTTERFLY!

I don’t EXPECT art of the highest order, but I can rely on “Nancy” to achieve it very often. This is super.