The New Nancy explores how Olivia Jaimes’s 2018 reboot of the legacy comic strip exemplifies the adaptability of contemporary flexible comics to serve divergent audiences, from nostalgic fans who read the daily comics in newspapers to newer webcomic readers.
The New Nancy explores how Olivia Jaimes’s 2018 reboot of the legacy comic strip exemplifies the adaptability of contemporary flexible comics to serve divergent audiences, from nostalgic fans who read the daily comics in newspapers to newer webcomic readers.
Jeff Karnicky is a professor of English at Drake University. He is the author of Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture and Scarlet Experiment: Birds and Humans in America (Nebraska, 2016).
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List of Illustrations Series Editors’ Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction. “Going In on That Cornbread”: Becoming Flexible, Becoming #Relatable (April 9, 2018) 1. “Cash Preferred”: Olivia Jaimes’s Working Persona (November 8, 2019) 2. “New Year, New Me!”: Nancy’s Representations (June 4, 2018) 3. “But I Broke the Fourth Wall!”: Nancy’s Object Humor (January 20, 2019) 4. “You’ve Got Your Mask, Right?”: Nancy’s Pandemic (November 3, 2020) Notes Bibliography Index