Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for June 20, 2019
June 19, 2019
June 21, 2019
Transcript:
Teacher: Now, children---Bring me your compositions. Nancy--How DARE you? ---This paper is BLANK. What Mark do you think I should give you for this? Nancy: How about 100 per cent for neatness?
atomicdog almost 5 years ago
Stereotypical schoolmarm, probably a spinster.
Auntie Clockwise almost 5 years ago
In panel two I see a fascinating treatment that Bushmiller has given to Nancy’s eyes. I can’t clearly recall seeing a lot of those kinds of eye treatment in Ernie’s strips. Perhaps I should be looking more closely.
Those Nancy-eyes in panel two caused me to notice that with this strip, Bushmiller was exploring & browsing eye brows.
For panel one, I think I may have spotted another Bushmiller rarity. The child shown on the far-right side of panel one has at least two teeth!
I enjoyed the flip-book effect of alternating my gaze back-and-forth across panels two and three while referencing the treatment that Ernie gave the teacher’s profile. The differences between the look of Nancy’s eyes in panel two and panel three is spooky while gazing left-to-right, right-to-left across the pair of panels.
As for panel four, I think the panel is the most surreal panel I’ve seen this year. I’ll start with the word ‘percent’ split into the pair of words, “per cent” in the dialogue balloon.
Moving along, six plewds, a white, floating, distorted-looking rectangle, a high-contrast plaid pattern contrasted with a vertical pattern on the desktop, and Nancy, appearing to be tasting her right index-finger.
This strip helped me to obtain a deeper understanding of why Ernie Bushmiller was almost always a cartoonist but was never a parent.
Auntie Socialist almost 5 years ago
How about 100% for expressing exactly what I had to say?
Sir Marcie almost 5 years ago
Ah, so it was from Nancy that John Cage got the idea for 4’33".
The Reader Premium Member almost 5 years ago
It was a riveting story about a white dog getting lost in a snowstorm.
WCraft Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Worst response ever. Think a little harder…
asrialfeeple almost 5 years ago
It’s a sleeping polar bear in the snow.
waltermgm almost 5 years ago
At least there were no typos or grammar errors.
Another Take almost 5 years ago
1- VBS TEACHER: Children, as you know we here at Vacation Bible School build character through shaming… 2- …Nancy! Get up here! 3- VBS TEACHER: Your paper on a significant event in religious history is blank! Explain this! 4- NANCY: Ummm, I was gonna write about Moses and the burning bush but I’m not allowed to have anything to do with fire? No? How about I was gonna write Daniel walking around in the fire and …oh, same excuse…
Kip W almost 5 years ago
Hey, where’s the “joy and smiles, unconditional love, compassion, faith, and freedom, and second and even third chances at happiness”? Oh, right: This is genuine Nancy, and not a load of treacly glurge for Meemaw’s Frigidaire. Never mind.
romandogbird almost 5 years ago
nice
brklnbern almost 5 years ago
Sounds fair.