Girl: I think I'll leave my INVISIBLE FRIENDS at home when I go to school from now on. I need five chairs in the cafeteria...And all the kids think I like to eat alone!
Nice, reminds me of my house! What is that creature in the upper right hand side of the 1st frame? Yikes!! Can’t wait until Sluggo and Fritz gets a gander at this! LOL!! Nice work, story line is very interesting.
Wrong way around. Fritzi had the strip first. Nancy, like Huey, Dewey, and Louie, like Swee’pea, like Skeezix, just turned up one day.
Oona was created for the Dell “Nancy” comic book by the great John Stanley, who also created the comic-book version of “Little Lulu”. Stanley was probably aware of Charles Addams’ characters from “The New Yorker” (they didn’t yet have names of their own), but, on the other hand, both characters are your basic “little girl who lives in a haunted house” image, so it’s hard to say how much direct influence there was. In any case, the two characters and the humor drawn around them are quite different. Wednesday Addams is a weird little girl with strange and sometimes sinister tastes. Oona, on the other hand, is a perfectly normal, friendly little girl who just happens to live in a haunted house with her spooky relatives (and, in the original stories, a secret passage to the alternate dimension where the Yo-yos come from).
JezzVimSr over 10 years ago
Nice, reminds me of my house! What is that creature in the upper right hand side of the 1st frame? Yikes!! Can’t wait until Sluggo and Fritz gets a gander at this! LOL!! Nice work, story line is very interesting.
blunebottle over 10 years ago
She reminds me of Wednesday Addams……was one modelled on the other by any chance?
WSR over 10 years ago
Is Nancy seeing Oona’s invisible friends or questioning Oona’s sanity in panel 2?
dmar over 10 years ago
Anybody else think Oona looks like a Dr. Seuss character? A Who maybe? Could be the pigtails.
Lyons Group, Inc. over 10 years ago
Oona looks more like the characters in the oldHarvey Comics comic book series. Nancy did had competition from many other little cartoon females:
Little LuluLittle AudreyLittle Lotta (uh, she was anything but little)Wendy, The Good WitchLittle Dot
rhtatro over 10 years ago
Maybe Phil could do an exorcism?
jmcx4 over 10 years ago
My Grandmother always like to sit alone for meals. When asked she said, “That way I can chew with my mouth open if I want to.”Oh Mamaw……
RedSamRackham over 10 years ago
Oona should have her own spinoff comic strip. But thern back in the Bushmiller era Fritzi had her own strip.
larryh77 over 10 years ago
Why does she need five chairs for her five yo-yos? They can all fit in one chair, or even sit on her lap!
LV1951 over 10 years ago
I can see 1 chair for herself, but the 4 yo-yo’s don’t need chairs. They can sit on the edge of the table!
brklnbern over 10 years ago
Really boring segment. Wake me when this is over.
John W Kennedy Premium Member over 10 years ago
Wrong way around. Fritzi had the strip first. Nancy, like Huey, Dewey, and Louie, like Swee’pea, like Skeezix, just turned up one day.
Oona was created for the Dell “Nancy” comic book by the great John Stanley, who also created the comic-book version of “Little Lulu”. Stanley was probably aware of Charles Addams’ characters from “The New Yorker” (they didn’t yet have names of their own), but, on the other hand, both characters are your basic “little girl who lives in a haunted house” image, so it’s hard to say how much direct influence there was. In any case, the two characters and the humor drawn around them are quite different. Wednesday Addams is a weird little girl with strange and sometimes sinister tastes. Oona, on the other hand, is a perfectly normal, friendly little girl who just happens to live in a haunted house with her spooky relatives (and, in the original stories, a secret passage to the alternate dimension where the Yo-yos come from).
JezzVimSr over 10 years ago
Oh shoot! Sit back and enjoy the ride Brklnbern!