[Music Cartoon] Bushmiller, Ernie. (1905 - 1982)
"She's Earnest" - Original "Nancy" Comic Strip
Original hand-inked six-panel Nancy daily comic strip, dated September 10, 1941, on a 58 x 15.5 cm piece of artist’s cardstock. The strip depicts Nancy coming from her voice lesson with a hilariously wide open mouth ("My singing teacher says I should hold my mouth in shis shape!"), she sings as such through three panels until she slips on a banana peel and in the final panel is shown sobbing, the musical notes coming from her mouth having been replaced with "Boo Hoo Hoo Boo Hoo"! In very good condition.The character of Nancy, a slightly chubby and precocious eight-year-old, first appeared in the strip Fritzi Ritz about the airheaded flapper title character. Larry Whittington began Fritzi Ritz in 1922, and it was taken over by Bushmiller three years later. On January 2, 1933, Bushmiller introduced Fritzi's niece, Nancy, a wily young lady who is constantly in the state of a daydream or a confused plot. Soon she dominated the daily strip, which was retitled Nancy in 1938. At its peak in the 1970s, Nancy ran in more than 880 newspapers. (6404)
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