Nancy Comic Strip, February 19, 2013 on GoComics.com

23035387 said, 3 months ago

hey its the nancy sisters

Alexikakos said, 3 months ago

We’re experiencing a “comic-time/universe-shift” here. Fritzi herself was around in W.W. II

Since Fritzi, Phil and Nancy were actually contemporaries of the Andrews Sisters, there is a pretty good chance that, once upon a time, the actual Andrews sisters followed the adventures of Fritzi and Nancy in their local newspapers! I remember one of the Fritzi comics from January of 1941 (When the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy was popular) which featured Fritzi and Phil getting ready to go to a show. While Phil waited and fumed, Fritzi decided that the dress she was wearing didn’t go with the necklace she wanted to wear. So she changed her dress – but, then, decided that she didn’t like the necklace. So she changed clothes again. Finally, after several changes, Fritzi and Phil headed out for the show and they were WALKING! As they walked along, someone who knew Phil said Hi – and Phil waved back. So, when they finally arrived at the show, the show was getting ready to start and Fritzi complained that they were late because Phil had stopped to speak to his friend on the street! By 1943, Fritzi was all aglow because one of her gentleman friends had gone into “war work.” Phil told Fritzi that he tried to join the Marines, but he was an inch too short. So Fritzi put her foot down and told Phil NOT to call her until he had found SOME sort of “war work” to do. So a few days later, Phil called Fritzi and told her that he was going to school to learn welding. So Fritzi was pretty pleased about Phil’s new job and decided to WALK over to the welding school to surprise Phil at lunch. Fritzi was pretty miffed when she finally arrived at the welding school – and discovered that all of the rest of Phil’s classmates were curvaceous females! !

blunebottle said, 3 months ago

@Estrelita Phillips

“…all of the rest of Phil’s classmates were curvaceous females! !”

Yes, that would have been par for the course for many of Phil’s appearances back in the old days. Always the wandering eye. Keep a close watch on him, Fritzi and guard your heart!

Amber Thompson said, 3 months ago

Patty Andrews, the last sister, recently died.

Estrelita Phillips said, 3 months ago

@blunebottle

I like the old World War II comics because they show people doing stuff like walking instead of riding everywhere in cars – most likely because gas was rationed! I have kind of wondered if the reason why Phil was always drawn as a short guy was because being too short would have kept him out of military service and left him at home to keep all of the lovely ladies company.

I guess Patty Andrews, the last of the Andrews sisters just passed away in January of 2013. She was somewhere in the vicinity of 95 years old.

Would be great if some comic historian could find out whether or not the Andrews sisters had ever been mentioned in any of the Fritzi, Nancy, Sluggo or Phil comics. I seem to recall that, at one time, each of them had their own separate comic, and they had as many as eight panels to get their jokes across. Guy really would be busy if he was trying to produce eight panels per day for Fritz, another 8 for Nancy, another 8 for Sluggo and another 8 for Phil!

My theory is that one of the reasons why newspapers keep going out of business because they have failed to have respect for their comic pages.