![]() Nancy’s world of jokes derived from props, puns, upended clichés, and visual/verbal puzzle-solving is so purely graphic that it somehow manages to be simultaneously dumb gags and astonishingly razor-sharp cleverness at the same time. The rebranded strip grew to become a huge phenomenon, syndicated in over 450 newspapers in the USA that decade (eventually 880 papers by 1971) and translated into hundreds more worldwide. Aunt Fritzi was relegated to a supporting role behind Sluggo Smith, Nancy’s pug-nosed sidekick. The little girl stuck around, becoming increasingly popular and by 1938 Bushmiller’s daily strip was officially rechristened Nancy. ![]() He introduced the squat, slot-nosed Nancy in 1933 as one of the many guest stars who featured for a few weeks before fading out, but the joke opportunities she provided didn’t fade. ![]() ![]() Ernie Bushmiller had been writing and drawing the adventures of Fritzi Ritz since 1925, a strip about a Jazz-age flapper/movie actress, her film career and love life. ![]()
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