Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for March 05, 2019

I’m reminded of Ernie’s famous Labor Day strips.

By the way, apropos of nothing, I’m both relieved (and TBQH a little disappointed) that we don’t have Fritzi wearing a too-tight T-shirt with “Prodigy” ineptly lettered across the front.

Hey, why bother with drawing at all? Just write a bunch of words. And if you misspell one, just cross it out and guess again…

In “The Painted Word” Tom Wolfe suggested this as the next logical development in art. He also imagined eventually finding in a gallery canvases blank except for a few grayish scrawl lines left by applying very hard leaded graphite pencils. He was not happy about such developments.

One morning I took my sister to the High Museum in Atlanta. She called me over, pointed to a canvas, and just said “WHAT?” It was the barely perceptible pencil scrawls.

I said, “Someone’s been reading Tom Wolfe. I’ll tell you about it over lunch.”

How to draw pictures with detail and color, even when you’re an old lady, crippled with arthritis, with no formal training in art —

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MAUD LEWIS, WINTER SCENE

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…Speaking of Silver;Bronze.

…Silver/Bronze Age comic book artists, Jim Aparo always used to draw women with the same – unpleasant – facial expression!

My first thought was “lazy” but this was actually a lot of work. Kudos!

Agree 100%

Here’s what I do: the expression is ‘if worse comes to worst.’ It is now worse than before, but it could get to the worst possible.On the other hand, I’m a huge fan of the current strip.

Another good one Olivia (not kidding.) : )

The life of a tortured artist.

If we had a sausage recipe along with the crack-brained whining, then worst would have come to wurst.

And if you mess up the entire strip, just tell GoComics to put “Nancy as not updated today.”

When a single post disappears, I know it could be that the original poster has removed it. Even the responding posts disappear in that case… at least I think so. I’ve gotten the impression that moderators sometimes remove problematic posts. It seems that the “squabble” posts are now missing. Whatever the reason, I like it.

“So, this is how I wound up with this hair!”

Better than the vast majority of punchlines for this strip.

Clever. :)

Worse comes to worst.

That isn’t how I operated at their age, past a clean piece of paper and redrew whatever I was working on.

PURE. GOLD.

And here is lit a candle to burn forever in memory of our erstwhile antagonist, Alex. He will live on in our memories until, like the phoenix of legend, he rises from the ashes with a new account handle.