How did the “tiger tea” thing come out?
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.
Those sunglasses would have to be tinted pretty dark for you to miss it.
Well played, Nemo. 
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…
If you want to drop a couple of bucks at 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”…”
Everybody had a good time, everybody got their head bricked…
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.
Maybe you were thinking of this strip? :dubious:
http://thedailybanter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/little-orphan-annie_240_thumb.jpg
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.
Thanks for the tip. I may just check that out.
I recognized her, but the name that my brain came up with was Little Lulu.
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” trope.
Nice find! Unfortunately, that’s not Champagne herself (if memory serves) in the strip. She had black hair.
Recognized, but didn’t come up with the name in the 15 seconds required for Jeopardy.
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.
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.
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.