I was an early fan of Olivia Jaimes’s Nancy strips. I felt it was a renaissance for the comic strip icon. I used to print out strips from Go Comics at work and pin them in my cubicle. At one point I had strips from across an entire year decorating my workspace. I say all this to denote how much of a fan I was.
These new strips aren’t good. They haven’t been good for a long time. They may as well be prose, and not particularly funny or witty prose either. Four panels of thought bubbles taking up a quarter up to a full half of the panel do not an engaging comic strip make. Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy strips had a great visual whimsy and Jaimes’s strips – despite being different stylistically – continued in that great tradition! What happened???
I used to follow several accounts on Twitter that would repost the daily strips. No one does anymore. Olivia has killed this comic’s momentum with her seemingly phoned in, dialogue-heavy strips that focus on secondary or tertiary original characters as opposed to the beloved core cast of Nancy, Sluggo, and Fritzi. It’s a far cry from her best work only a few years ago, and I’m sad to see how far it’s fallen.
I was an early fan of Olivia Jaimes’s Nancy strips. I felt it was a renaissance for the comic strip icon. I used to print out strips from Go Comics at work and pin them in my cubicle. At one point I had strips from across an entire year decorating my workspace. I say all this to denote how much of a fan I was.
These new strips aren’t good. They haven’t been good for a long time. They may as well be prose, and not particularly funny or witty prose either. Four panels of thought bubbles taking up a quarter up to a full half of the panel do not an engaging comic strip make. Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy strips had a great visual whimsy and Jaimes’s strips – despite being different stylistically – continued in that great tradition! What happened???
I used to follow several accounts on Twitter that would repost the daily strips. No one does anymore. Olivia has killed this comic’s momentum with her seemingly phoned in, dialogue-heavy strips that focus on secondary or tertiary original characters as opposed to the beloved core cast of Nancy, Sluggo, and Fritzi. It’s a far cry from her best work only a few years ago, and I’m sad to see how far it’s fallen.