Nancy: A Comic Collection by Olivia JaimesMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Nancy: A Comic Collection collects the Nancy strips from April 9, 2018 to January 13, 2019, written and drawn by Olivia Jaimes.
Nancy was always one of those newspaper strips I was vaguely aware of but never got into. Until, that is, people started reTweeting Nancy strips by Olivia Jaimes. I was hooked right away.
In the afterword, Jaimes says she set out to modernize Nancy a bit and return her to her jerky roots. Mission accomplished! While staying true to the look of the strip established by Ernie Bushmiller, Jaimes' Nancy spends a lot of time talking smack and playing on her phone or computer. Jaimes is equally adept at visual gags and at wordplay. Sluggo takes a word balloon to the head on one occasion, for instance.
While it won't make you forget Calvin and Hobbes, Nancy by Olivia Jaimes is one of the best comic strips going today. 4 out of 5 stars.
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