I actually laughed at the strip today…Note to Me. Jaimes once one of my schoolteachers once said to me when I got an ‘A..’.Now that I know you’re capable…I expect more from you young man!
I came to check out this strip because I keep seeing it in the daily highlights, and I was surprised to see that it was actually witty and entertaining. Having dismissed this comic long ago as being just another saccharine, unfunny, nostalgia-fest that should have died in past decades, I was curious to see what changed. Unbeknownst to me, apparently there has been quite the controversy raging over this new artist.
Well, I’m just here to say that this new artist seems vastly superior by my millennial sensibilities. I never would have thought that Nancy, of all comics, would be a comic that I would start following, but the world can be unpredictable sometimes. Keep up the good work, Olivia Jaimes.
Compare today’s strip with Bushmiller’s from Nancy Classics. In Bushmiller’s, the gag is centered on a situation which could not/should not happen today (i.e. something which might have been “relevant” when the comic was printed but wouldn’t be now). Pointing this out since a lot of people have been saying his strips are “timeless”. I barely see any difference in the way Nancy is drawn, except now we have color. And the sight gag is just as apt. I’d really love for the haters to come up with some reasons why this comic is so horrid while that comic is superior. Can’t wait to see the answers.
I haven’t cared about current Nancy comics (many original run ones are surprisingly relateable or soft-hearted) for the 3 decades I’ve been alive, but I’ve been really into OJ’s current crop. Keep up your great work, Jaimes! Love to see your influence from current comic styles and not has-been newspaper embarrassments.
Made an account just so I could follow the new Nancy! I loved reading newspaper strips as a kid (I’m 26) and as I got older, moved into webcomics. Looking back into the archives and the classics, I must have been reading the Buschmiller strips back in the day because had I been reading the ones right before these Jaimes’s strips, I never would have remembered them. Everyone looks like cabbage patch Archie and the dozen strips that I read felt very Family Circus. Glad to see someone with the sharp wit I remember at the helm, even if some of the older fans are perplexed by videogames and smartphones. I do wish the skin was a little less yellow/green toned, but I’ll it take over the creepy baby doll quality that came before it. Keep up the good work and the critics will even out.
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member about 6 years ago
No rocks, and in particular not three of them!
AviShtap about 6 years ago
Made me actually laugh. Great work, loving this new comicmaker!! You go , girl!!! :D
JimmiComics about 6 years ago
Love it!
billytheclam about 6 years ago
good one!
ZEDMUND about 6 years ago
Love this!
Jan C about 6 years ago
Cute.
katina.cooper about 6 years ago
Well, I guess that report card could “accidentally” fall in the dumpster.
maybeinthenextworld about 6 years ago
delightful!
susanpresley about 6 years ago
This is the most refreshing change I’ve seen in a long time.
lee61951 about 6 years ago
Bushmiller humor!
Major Matt Mason Premium Member about 6 years ago
Replace “grades” with “next week’s strips” and you’re spot on. ;D
Caerin Premium Member about 6 years ago
I love Nancy’s updated ’tude!
Isaac Chen about 6 years ago
That’s some association psychology right there
JanBic Premium Member about 6 years ago
Why is their skin color so yellow? Other than that the new art works well.
greatgrannyszoo about 6 years ago
Still trying to like this one… :(
FLW about 6 years ago
OJ’s strips are great—the humor is on target and relevant. Finally, I don’t feel like I am being beaten with a Hallmark Card.
karnicky Premium Member about 6 years ago
TonyBlanco about 6 years ago
Join the fan club on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/160247214654722/
smmanning about 6 years ago
So bewildering that Nancy is now my favorite comic but I’m just gonna roll with it.
KirkPhoenix-Morgan about 6 years ago
I actually laughed at the strip today…Note to Me. Jaimes once one of my schoolteachers once said to me when I got an ‘A..’.Now that I know you’re capable…I expect more from you young man!
TheDisillusionist about 6 years ago
I came to check out this strip because I keep seeing it in the daily highlights, and I was surprised to see that it was actually witty and entertaining. Having dismissed this comic long ago as being just another saccharine, unfunny, nostalgia-fest that should have died in past decades, I was curious to see what changed. Unbeknownst to me, apparently there has been quite the controversy raging over this new artist.
Well, I’m just here to say that this new artist seems vastly superior by my millennial sensibilities. I never would have thought that Nancy, of all comics, would be a comic that I would start following, but the world can be unpredictable sometimes. Keep up the good work, Olivia Jaimes.
AnnaBrown about 6 years ago
This comic strip is so good now.
InquireWithin about 6 years ago
Compare today’s strip with Bushmiller’s from Nancy Classics. In Bushmiller’s, the gag is centered on a situation which could not/should not happen today (i.e. something which might have been “relevant” when the comic was printed but wouldn’t be now). Pointing this out since a lot of people have been saying his strips are “timeless”. I barely see any difference in the way Nancy is drawn, except now we have color. And the sight gag is just as apt. I’d really love for the haters to come up with some reasons why this comic is so horrid while that comic is superior. Can’t wait to see the answers.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 6 years ago
Nancy isn’t one for good grades. I can understand her blue funk.
ClaytonWelton about 6 years ago
I haven’t cared about current Nancy comics (many original run ones are surprisingly relateable or soft-hearted) for the 3 decades I’ve been alive, but I’ve been really into OJ’s current crop. Keep up your great work, Jaimes! Love to see your influence from current comic styles and not has-been newspaper embarrassments.
EOCostello about 6 years ago
Decent job, with a more classical type of gag.
billsplut about 6 years ago
I laughed! More than I have at any Guy strip which involved Nancy & Sluggo liking Roy Rogers, like any kid below the age of 75 does.
Spade Jr. about 6 years ago
Comic: funny. Art: still looks like skin disease.
Lovely about 6 years ago
Made an account just so I could follow the new Nancy! I loved reading newspaper strips as a kid (I’m 26) and as I got older, moved into webcomics. Looking back into the archives and the classics, I must have been reading the Buschmiller strips back in the day because had I been reading the ones right before these Jaimes’s strips, I never would have remembered them. Everyone looks like cabbage patch Archie and the dozen strips that I read felt very Family Circus. Glad to see someone with the sharp wit I remember at the helm, even if some of the older fans are perplexed by videogames and smartphones. I do wish the skin was a little less yellow/green toned, but I’ll it take over the creepy baby doll quality that came before it. Keep up the good work and the critics will even out.
31768 about 6 years ago
And that’s another thing Aunt Fritzi is not going to love. You’ll be staring at a green wall soon, Nancy.
RonEvry about 6 years ago
Maybe a decade ago, this might have been the “modern” equivalent – I wonder what people will think of this particular artifact of 2018 in ten years?
https://78.media.tumblr.com/c340e279e5f366688b2522a157553212/tumblr_p7pjdzrrre1qmgs7no1_1280.jpg
LochNessMonster almost 6 years ago
This is a big mood
DRMFeint almost 6 years ago
wow! a gag that has nothing to do with technology!
danketaz Premium Member 10 months ago
Well, if you’re going to be down in the dumps anyways.