these modern Nancy strips are pretty solid
They’re lacking the three rocks.
They are! Olivia Jaimes’ run was awesome, and Caroline Cash’s run on the strip is great.
Hey, if it wasn’t for Peanuts, Garfield wouldn’t be anywhere near as popular as it was, and not least because Charles Schulz was a mentor of sorts to Jim Davis.
Based on the anecdote on Schulz’s Wikipedia page, Schulz may have been the first person to draw Garfield standing on two legs, as he (the cat) is best known, tacitly giving permission for Davis to steal that part of Snoopy’s design.
I love Peanuts as much as the next guy, but I dunno if “animal standing on two legs” is a unique enough trait to say Garfield was stealing anything from Snoopy’s design. Mickey Mouse had already been walking around on two legs for decades at that point
Davis himself had already kind of put Garfield on his hind legs, but his legs and feet were one enormous mass because he was a chunky cat. Davis clearly hadn’t had the idea to make the legs spindly and Snoopy-like, or else he didn’t think he could do that and not be in trouble from people like Schulz.
When Schulz drew Garfield with Snoopy legs, Davis was able to take that idea and run with it.
Felix the cat also predates all of them.
I love Little Lotta.
Sometimes I’m in the mood for peanuts covered in chocolate! chocolate! chocolate!
ACK!
PHHHT!
