» About/Submit     » Archive     » Authors     » Search     » Random     » Statistics     » Forum     » RSS Feed     Updates Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday

No. 778: Silent-Era Nancy

First | Previous | 2024-02-29 | Next | Latest

Silent-Era Nancy

First | Previous | 2024-02-29 | Next | Latest

Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/itoons/?comic=778

Strip by: shiningpikablu252

Title card: iToons presents 'Silent-Era Nancy'
{Nancy starts running excitedly toward Sluggo; Nancy's mouth appears to be more open than Sluggo's}
Intertitle: "I just saw a wonderful new movie"
{Nancy and Sluggo are now running side-by-side; Sluggo's mouth appears to be more open than Nancy's}
Intertitle: "Who's in it?"
{Nancy and Sluggo are still running side-by-side; Nancy's mouth appears to be more open than Sluggo's}
Intertitle: "It's full of new stars---"
{Nancy and Sluggo run toward a building with a sign propped up toward it; Nancy's mouth appears to be more open than Sluggo's. The sign reads "Now Showing: Francis X. Bushman, William S. Hart, Pearl White, Fatty Arbuckle, Ben Turpin, Mabel Normand, Rudolph Valentino".}
Intertitle: "---And they don't talk---must be the latest thing out"

The author writes:

[Unfortunately, while we were able to recover the actual strip of this silent-era relic and even restore the sepia tinting, the corresponding author's notes do not appear to have been preserved. We can only presume they were lost in a nitrate fire way back when...]

Original Nancy strip: 1955-02-25.