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[–] 110 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Seeing Nancy with a smartphone is so much more cursed than Sluggo in that fedora.

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  • [–] 29 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    I always thought Nancy was an older comic strip. I guess it’s just the art style.

    Yeah seeing a smart phone in hand is pretty cursed.

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  • [–] 38 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    I always thought Nancy was an older comic strip. I guess it’s just the art style.

    It is. It's been running since 1938 as a spinoff of a comic that started in 1922, where the Nancy character was introduced in 1933. After the original artist passed in 1982, there's been 7 artists who have created new strips, including Caroline Cash, who took over this year.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 days ago

    It's been around for a long time.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_(comic_strip)

    Its origins lie in Fritzi Ritz, a strip Bushmiller inherited from its creator Larry Whittington in 1925. After Fritzi's niece Nancy was introduced in 1933, Fritzi Ritz evolved to focus more and more on Nancy instead of Fritzi. The new strip took the old one's daily slot, while Fritzi Ritz continued as a Sunday comic, with Nancy taking the Sunday slot previously filled by Bushmiller's Phil Fumble strip beginning on October 30, 1938.[2]

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  • [–] 20 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    This is a fine hat tho. Nancy is losing

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago

    Wait, that's a smartphone!? What in the cursed is this!?

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  • [–] 16 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    That last panel's a meme format in waiting.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    Oh man, I thought this comic was originally released in like the 50s or whatever, with no new comics being drawn anymore. Was quite the ride to see her holding a smartphone...

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    My brain didn't even recognised it as a smartphone but as some photo.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 child)

    Yeah, that was one of the stops on my ride. πŸ˜…
    If she didn't hold it so smartphone-like, I might not have questioned it.

    Although it would also be weird for her to just have a printed photo, if Sluggo recently started wearing hats.
    I feel like in the 50s, this joke would've been told by having the guy walk into the room, which honestly would've been funnier.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Fella looks pretty smart in that hat, if you ask me.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago

    I don't remember Nancy & Sluggo ever getting together. Must have happened after Bushmiller, eh?

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  • So is the problem how he looks in the fedora, or is it just the fact that its a fedora?

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