• Boo! Haunted House!English
    112·
    11 days ago

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

    • cannedtunaMEnglish
      311·
      11 days ago

      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.

      • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        40·
        11 days ago

        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.

        • spacegoat
          1·
          2 days ago

          They should change the topic to the characters being cursed to immortality

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        8·
        11 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]

  • Tattorack
    9·
    10 days ago

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

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
    9·
    10 days ago

    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…

      • Ephera@lemmy.ml
        3·
        10 days ago

        Yeah, that was one of the stops on my ride. 😅
        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.

        • CrazyLikeGollumEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          Instant color film and the associated cameras have existed since 1948. While unlikely (due to expense), it wouldnt be unheard of for a person in the 50’s to be walking around with a polaroid of a loved one.

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      10 days ago

      It was, and it was written by Ernie Bushmiller, not whoever this copycat is.

      (Also written by others after Ernie’s death, but not like this, ugh.)