It’s Thanksgiving Day. So it’s not a bad idea at all to stop right here and think of 3+ things you are thankful for. Go ahead. We’ll wait.
Even Thanksgiving can be prone to scams:
Happy Thanksgiving!
Tag / Nancy
A Novelty
Jack Applin sends this in: “Why would Nancy find a get-well card in a novelty store? I would expect a novelty store to contain joy buzzers, exploding cigarettes, and the like. Has the meaning of “novelty” changed since the time of King Arthur, when this strip was first published?”
It’s not a CIDU, since the intended joke is clear. But I remember dime stores, 5 and 10 cent stores (vaguely), variety stores, but I’m not sure I ever saw a Novelty Store.
Fourth Wall Comics
A collection of some fourth wall comics.
Mitch4 sends this one in: “The “fourth wall” aspect is that only we, seeing his shout spelled out, can really tell which homophone he is using, though the other character claims to know.”
Typo
Mitch4 send this in: “Momentary CIDU / then OY after you get it.”
I’ll order the Bombe from Acme bakeries.
In other news, Olivia Jaimes has announced her retirement from the Nancy strip after 7 years. (This doesn’t surprise me; in the past months she seemed to have hit a stretch where she was running out of ideas.)
The strip will be taken over on January 1, 2026 by Caroline Cash, who did a few Nancy strips during Jaimes’s 2024 sabbatical (July 22 through August 11, 2024).
This one’s a clear nod to classic Bushmiller gags, one of which I posted a few days ago.
Dan Piraro had this curious take on Nancy a couple of days ago, although it’s not clear this was at all related to the authorship transition.
Remembering September 11
Some comics from September 11, 2011: 10 years later.
Sunday Funnies – LOLs – September 7, 2025
Mitch4 sends in this Sluggo joke without Nancy.
It’s rare to see a Nancy comic without Nancy in Bushmiller’s time, but here’s another:
Not so much an LOL as an Awww! It’s a chance to remember those who helped us along the way.
Usual John sends this in in honor of CIDU Bill:
Labor Day: Do Cartoonists Work?
Some examples of cartoonists taking it easy on Labor Day. That’s not accurate, of course, because these comics would have been drawn some days ago.
Nancy steals from the future.
Arlo and Janis hearken back to an older Nancy comic:
Tank McNamara could just put new dialogue into the radio show form he often uses.
Gasoline Alley often just closes down.
4th Wall Fun
??? Is there a joke either in the two panel version or the one panel version? Why does the comic only fill up the middle of the space? Why is there a dotted background, which doesn’t occur in this strip generally? What’s Jaimes trying to say here?
The Future is Simple and Easy to Know
The person in panel 1 is Mildred’s mother, IIRC. Otherwise, it’s a bit of a muddle. Who would ever say such a thing? Panel 4 is no help.
Prediction is hard, especially about the future.
Independence Day
It’s interesting that the white character in this comic from 1976 is named Nate. Much later, Nate Bargatze will have a similar theme in this now well-known SNL skit:
On a serious note, it is always worth pondering the end of Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Speech:
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
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