This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot…I’m trying to keep him true to the spirit of that character, which is, he’s kinda more passive and more go-with-the-flow than Nancy, who kinda wants to grab life by the shoulders and shake it violently. I’m kinda going in and tweaking Sluggo a little bit. Just kinda being like, Here’s who Nancy’s gonna be right now. And I was like, I need to do a character-reset week. Nancy as a character had drifted from where I envision her, in that the Nancy I know and love is a total jerk and also gluttonous and also has big feelings and voraciously consumes her world. In a wide ranging interview Olivia gives her take on the comic strip’s characters… Now Abraham Riesman interviews cartoonist Olivia Jaimes. Then came Olivia Jaimes.Ĭomplimenting his profile of Olivia Jaimes from earlier this month Sure, the strips made back in the day by original creator Ernie Bushmiller were held up as revered objects by comics nerds, but he’d died long ago and his successors had never garnered his level of fame. Rarely in the history of comics has there been a turnaround as abrupt and pronounced as that of “ Nancy.” As of just a few months ago, no discerning critic paid the long-running comic strip any mind.
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