Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for January 03, 2020

Smooth.

You’re thinking of me the same old way

You were above me, but not today

The only difference is you’re down there

I’m looking through you and you’re nowhere

Just in the nick of time Nancy realizes that she values Sluggo’s friendship.

Unusually sloppy work with the coloring behind Nancy’s head and neck today.

From The Comics Journal, “The Best Comics of 2019”:

“Nancy: A Comics Collection by Olivia Jaimes (Andrews McMeel). Every decade or so, someone comes along who allegedly makes the newspaper comics page ‘worth reading again’ or some such claptrap. It’s pretty unexpected to have it be someone like the mysterious and pseudonymous Olivia Jaimes, and even more unexpected to be via the process of breathing hilarious, shocking, and meta-comical new life into a strip as ancient and established as Nancy. But Jaimes and her delightful new Nancy live up to the hype; I can’t remember the last time a strip delivered at such high percentages and made me actually look forward to getting the paper every day (or, you know, its online equivalent, I don’t live in a goddamn cave). This may not seem in keeping with my focus on political works, but in a way, this Nancy – tech-savvy, permanently online, simultaneously self-aggrandizing and self-hating, and obsessed with her own image in social media – is only a reflection of Weird Left Twitter and the Discourse writ large.”

http://www.tcj.com/the-best-comics-of-2019/

most excellent

this " new" Nancy creeps me out once in a while !!! lol

I’m liking the sheepish wiggle of the tail on the speech balloon in panel four.

I look down on most people, but, then again, I’m pretty tall.

“A dog will look up to a man, and a cat will look down on a man. But a pig will look a man square in the eye, and see his equal.” Sir Winston Churchill….

At least for Sluggo, things are looking up!