Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn Ernie Bushmiller. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng
Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn Ernie Bushmiller. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng

Number 1156: Ritzy Fritzi Ritz

Người đăng: Unknown on Chủ Nhật, 13 tháng 5, 2012


When I look back at Sunday strips like these examples of "Fritzi Ritz," it makes me nostalgic for the golden age of newspaper comics. Full pages. Good drawings. Nowadays I look at the Sunday funnies of my own local daily newspaper and need a magnifying glass to read them.

Besides some very nice Fritzi Sunday pages going back as far as the 1940s from St. John's Fritzi Ritz #49 (1956), there are a few pages of "Nancy," which looks like a standard comic book story, but is actually five pages of unrelated daily gag strips. There are also three pages of Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" from the early days. It’s always nostalgic for me to see these early strips. I started reading it in the days when the kids in the main cast were Charlie Brown and neighborhood kids Violet and Patty, Shermy and Pigpen...and when Snoopy walked on four legs.



























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Người đăng: Unknown on Chủ Nhật, 18 tháng 7, 2010


Number 774


Ritzy Fritzi


August 10 is the publication date for another of Craig Yoe's great books, this time a compilation of Ernie Bushmiller's Fritzi Ritz. Fritzi is aunt to Nancy, who was introduced into the strip and eventually took it over. Not in my heart, though. For me, it's all about Fritzi.

Despite my love for the girl, I only have a couple of all-Fritzi comics in my collection, including this raggedy United Comics #13, from 1950. These are the Fritzi strips from that issue. Cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller didn't do much intellectualizing when it came to humor. It's all out there for easy reading and getting the joke. His jokes are full of pretty girls, dumb guys, cornball domestic situations, yet it all works, and he did it for decades.

I did a posting of classic Fritzi covers in Pappy's #115, April 2007.




















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Consider Fritzi's niece, Nancy, who has been 8-years-old since World War II! No wonder she's frustrated. Nancy is a woman in a child's body, never allowed to come out.




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