# Aunt Fritzi is my new it girl **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 3, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzi-is-my-new-it-girl/363049 "2006-07-03T14:49:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzi-is-my-new-it-girl/363049/1 "2006-07-03T14:49:23Z")
Okay, Sunday’s strip cemented it, Aunt Fritzi is perfect in every way. [http://www.comics.com/comics/nancy/archive/nancy-20060702.html](http://www.comics.com/comics/nancy/archive/nancy-20060702.html) ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzi-is-my-new-it-girl/363049/2 "2006-07-03T15:30:08Z")
Who the heck is “Aunt Fritzi”? All I see is a fairly ordinary Nancy 'toon. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzi-is-my-new-it-girl/363049/3 "2006-07-03T15:42:16Z")
Aunt Fritzi is the swimsuit-clad woman in the title panel. And yes, I’d be far more interested in an Aunt Fritzi comic than I ever have been in Nancy. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzi-is-my-new-it-girl/363049/4 "2006-07-03T15:42:34Z")
> [@Ice Wolf](#): > > Who the heck is “Aunt Fritzi”? All I see is a fairly ordinary Nancy 'toon. 😕 Aunt Fritzi is Nancy’s Aunt and caretaker and is the woman featured in the first panel of the linked comic. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzi-is-my-new-it-girl/363049/5 "2006-07-03T15:59:02Z")
Fritzi was the focus of the strip in the beginning, and she started out hot!! Sadly she got desexualized in the 50’s. Good to see she’s back. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzi-is-my-new-it-girl/363049/6 "2006-07-03T16:10:49Z")
> [@mrklutz](#): > > Aunt Fritzi is the swimsuit-clad woman in the title panel. And yes, I’d be far more interested in an Aunt Fritzi comic than I ever have been in Nancy. **mrklutz** , born too late. According to Don Markstein (without doubt the best authority on this stuff on the web) [Fritzi](http://www.toonopedia.com/fritzi.htm) was the star of the strip for its first 15 years or so. Nancy didn’t even show up until 1933, 11 years into the run of _Fritzi Ritz_. The name was changed in '38. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aunt-fritzi-is-my-new-it-girl/363049/7 "2006-07-03T16:31:00Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > **mrklutz** , born too late. According to Don Markstein (without doubt the best authority on this stuff on the web) [Fritzi](http://www.toonopedia.com/fritzi.htm) was the star of the strip for its first 15 years or so. Nancy didn’t even show up until 1933, 11 years into the run of _Fritzi Ritz_. The name was changed in '38. > > –Cliffy Hmmm, 15 years of lookin’ like that, and suddenly a “niece” shows up? Yeah, riiiight. (Must have been a painful birth, with that hair!)