![]() During that period, David Letterman showed on TV a Nancy panel with Plastino's signature and made a joke about Plastino as a superhero name. At its peak in the 1970s, Nancy ran in more than 880 newspapers.Īl Plastino worked on Sunday episodes of Nancy in 1982-83 after Bushmiller died. įritzi Ritz continued as a Sunday feature until 1968. Fritzi Ritz was a bit player where she had formerly been the star. Years later, when newspaper space became tighter and cartoonists were no longer allowed whole pages to themselves, Fritzi's half disappeared, and the transformation was complete. ![]() Formerly, half of it had been devoted to Fritzi and the other half to her boyfriend, Phil Fumble. At the same time, Bushmiller's Sunday page underwent a similar change. ![]() Sluggo Smith, Nancy's friend from the "wrong side of the tracks", was introduced in January and later that year, Aunt Fritzi's name was dropped from the title of the daily strip, which continued as Nancy. ![]() Two important developments occurred in 1938. Bushmiller's bold, clear art style, combined with his ability to construct a type of gag that appealed to a very broad audience, brought the strip to new heights of popularity-and his introduction of Fritzi's niece, Nancy, in 1933, carried it higher yet. ![]()
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