Monday, March 14, 2022

Jam session

[Nancy, May 27, 1949.]

In today’s yesterday’s Nancy, it is night, and Nancy and Sluggo stroll by the light of a crescent moon to what must be 52nd Street, or an equivalent. I love the shocked expressions with which the kids meet this sign. We then see them running back home before returning, striding purposefully, with spoons in their hands and napkins around their necks.

But Sluggo should know the real meaning of “jam session”: on May 4, 1949 he called (in bold) for Nancy to “put on a bebop record.”

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[I just realized that Ernie Bushmiller’s characters have five fingers per hand, and not the usual cartoon four. Realism!]

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