This Slate interview with Olivia Jaimes draws a number of parallels between the cartoonist and Nancy creator Ernie Bushmiller in terms of their work, but most delightful is a behind-the-scenes fact that Matthew Phelan springs on her. The pseudonymous Jaimes has been very cautious about having any public identity as a woman online in 2019, […]
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what if phones, but just right
Today’s Nancy: Beyond her oft-noted transplanting of 80-years-old children Nancy & Sluggo whole-bodied into today’s world of young (& other) people mediating their lives through handheld computers, Olivia Jaimes is just a ludicrously precise joke writer. The storytelling in this is as concise as Nancy creator Ernie Bushmiller, but in a milieu that’s more emotional […]
Calvin County
I tapped out on Berke Breathed back in the ’90s when Bloom County had become the weekly strip Outland, and had only seen a handful of reposted examples since he brought it back as a Facebook-exclusive strip with really ugly computer lettering. So I’d totally missed, until this week, that Bill Watterson has been doing […]
lost legacy
In 2018, for the first time in the history of newspaper comic strips, we saw a worthwhile legacy strip. Usually on the death of a successful cartoonist, the syndicate will engage new artists, writers or cartoonists to carry on the valuable “intellectual property.” Sometimes these might rise to the level of general competence. Never have […]