# Do you know this comic strip character? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449 "2014-12-16T23:18:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/61 "2014-12-17T18:43:16Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Well, maybe people would know _Krazy Kat_, but certainly not any others. How did the “tiger tea” thing come out? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/62 "2014-12-17T18:53:20Z")
Interesting that “Nancy” was a spinoff of “Fritzi Ritz,” since the focus was so different. My mom used to draw profiles of Fritzi Ritz when I was a kid, and talked about the strip. It was about the only thing she could draw. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/63 "2014-12-17T18:58:02Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > I NOTICED WHAT YOU DID THERE. 🆒 Those sunglasses would have to be tinted pretty dark for you to miss it. Well played, **Nemo**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/64 "2014-12-17T19:03:43Z")
I’m 29, and the picture was familiar, but I couldn’t remember the name, or even have any sense of recognition upon learning it was “Nancy”. Just not really part of my world, I suppose… ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/65 "2014-12-17T19:04:41Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Back before I knew what “the hots” even were I had the hots for a character on Kerry Drake’s strip named Champagne. I even started a thread or two in my early days here trying to find anybody else who even knew who she was. A few replies, but nothing more than that and I have yet to find any online evidence of her existence. If you want to drop a couple of bucks at [Newspapers.com](http://Newspapers.com), apparently page 16 of the _ **Amarillo Globe-Times** _ from May 28, 1948 has the words “…the new Kerry Drake character, Andriola has named his new siren “Champagne”…” > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > How did the “tiger tea” thing come out? Everybody had a good time, everybody got their head bricked… ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/66 "2014-12-17T19:06:10Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > How did the “tiger tea” thing come out? Originally Krazy got the tea so he could restart Mr Meeyowl’s catnip business, then he tried to become a dealer himself, but in the end he was the only one who wanted it. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/67 "2014-12-17T19:12:18Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > I recognized her appearance, but guessed that her name was “Annie” for some reason. Maybe you were thinking of this strip? :dubious: [http://thedailybanter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/little-orphan-annie\_240\_thumb.jpg](http://thedailybanter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/little-orphan-annie_240_thumb.jpg) ---
**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:** [December 17, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/68 "2014-12-17T19:13:20Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I think I began losing touch with “pop culture” when LOTR was the thing. Back in the mid 1960’s is when you began to lose touch? Because that’s when first saw “Frodo Lives!” graffiti and buttons. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/69 "2014-12-17T19:29:02Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Back in the mid 1960’s is when you began to lose touch? > > Because that’s when first saw “Frodo Lives!” graffiti and buttons. I guess it was the movies that began losing me. I did have trouble getting on board the _Star Wars_ craze, too. So 70’s anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/70 "2014-12-17T19:30:58Z")
> [@bup](#): > > If you want to drop a couple of bucks at [Newspapers.com](http://Newspapers.com), apparently page 16 of the _ **Amarillo Globe-Times** _ from May 28, 1948 has the words “…the new Kerry Drake character, Andriola has named his new siren “Champagne”…” Thanks for the tip. I may just check that out. ---
**Author:** ![rucciface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@rucciface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rucciface)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/71 "2014-12-17T19:42:56Z")
I recognized her, but the name that my brain came up with was Little Lulu. ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/72 "2014-12-17T20:01:54Z")
I do remember reading Nancy and Sluggo in the newspaper comics when I was a kid in the 1970s, but the artist Ernie Bushmiller’s name I only learned over the past few years from mentions of his “[three rocks](http://everything2.com/title/Three+Rocks)” trope. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/73 "2014-12-17T20:02:01Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Thanks for the tip. I may just check that out. [Here’s the actual strip for that date.](http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KHgbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JU0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4141%2C5187003) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/74 "2014-12-17T20:08:24Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [Here’s the actual strip for that date.](http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KHgbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JU0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4141%2C5187003) Nice find! Unfortunately, that’s not Champagne herself (if memory serves) in the strip. She had black hair. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/75 "2014-12-17T20:12:43Z")
Recognized, but didn’t come up with the name in the 15 seconds required for Jeopardy. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/76 "2014-12-17T20:46:12Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Nice find! Unfortunately, that’s not Champagne herself (if memory serves) in the strip. She had black hair. [Maybe she looks different in color.](http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NDsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IU0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4620%2C1247354) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/77 "2014-12-17T20:54:15Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [Maybe she looks different in color.](http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NDsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IU0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4620%2C1247354) Damn! You’ve wrecked a memory I’ve had since before grammar school! That gal is nothing like my memory of her. Even color couldn’t fix that difference. Thanks so much for the scrounging you did. Breaks my heart! 😉 And 1948 is about the right time frame. I would have been 6 going on 7. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/78 "2014-12-17T21:51:48Z")
[How about a black scarf over her hair?](http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NzsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IU0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4162%2C2343330) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/79 "2014-12-17T21:56:28Z")
Bushmiller’s original Nancy strips were beautifully minimalist. I have a book of reprints of the classic strips and each one is a little masterpiece. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449/80 "2014-12-17T22:01:16Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [How about a black scarf over her hair?](http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NzsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IU0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4162%2C2343330) Sorry, but that doesn’t help. Her features aren’t like my memory at all. It could be that I have fused her looks with those of somebody from another strip. I thought it might be Moonbeam McSwine but the images of her are nowhere close. Trouble is, I don’t remember many other strips that had that sort of artwork. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-this-comic-strip-character/707449.md?page=5)