Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for February 17, 2019

I like these goofy “perspective” gags. She’s done a couple of these now, I think. Does anyone recall these kind of gags showing up in any other comic strips (including Bushmiller’s work)?

Nancy’s plan appears heavily based upon Sluggo not moving his head.

Sluggo has the worst case of depth perception I have ever seen.

Love it…

I love this strip. This time it’s making me think of elements of the development of modern art.

Picasso dissected two dimensional pretension to represent three dimensions. He slapped all the dissected parts on canvas so that we could see profile and full face and the back of the head all at the same time. Take that, representational art! Your attempt to depict three dimensions is a pathetic fraud!

Once the battle lines were drawn, the next century continued to separate out the elements of representation. Only action matters = Jackson Pollock. Only primary colors are worth our attention = Ellsworth Kelly. I admit that my works are works, so I glue my brush and pallet to the canvas = Jasper Johns. Only the idea counts, so I describe the art on a 3 × 5 card and put THAT on the gallery wall = Yoko Ono.

I choke and can’t even talk about Mark Rothko’s sublime black canvases that dispense with almost everything except texture and a slight gesture toward color. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has one in her office.

These = the context that cradles today’s beautiful episode of Nancy.

Sluggo should be grateful that Nancy isn’t Susie from Calvin and Hobbes.

Has he only one functional eye? And her whole plan revolves around his keeping his head perfectly immobile?

Sluggo is hit. Or will be, anyhow.

Fool! Nowhere is safe from the wrath of Nancy!

I must admit I stopped reading Nancy years ago. I do like the new approach/modern Nancy though. Thank you Olivia! Keep up the nice work.

Your reading too much into this , if both sides are equally armed it`s a fair fight.

Sluggo is hit

What a prank

This could never have happened in the Gilchrist era. He’d have drawn three snowballs and been unable to put in another.

most excellent

I think the French call this “trompe d’olil” — tricking the eye. (I may have misspelled the term.)

Another good one. :)

Very Bushmillerian

Clearly Nancy has no problem with working hard. She just needs to harness her passions.

Don’t worry, Sluggo. I’m sure she’s just going to build a snowman centipede.