Here's an exhaustive list of famous people named Nancy.
It turns out I currently know two Nancys. But I thought I knew more famous Nancys. & yet I ended up just thinking of Pelosi, Reagan, Sinatra, & Spungeon. & only that last one when I thought of the film Sid & Nancy.
One of the things I did last year for my Frank Show (which incidentally was almost exactly a year ago, I wonder if I unconsciously scheduled another "name" show around this time because of that) was ask strangers to tell me to name three famous Nancys. Besides the above, I might probably get Kerrigan, & almost certainly I'd get Nancy Drew.
When I was a kid, I was a voracious comic book reader, & to this day I am fond of episodic fare - I like cliffhanger endings & "next issue" blurbs. So I loved the Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys books. I loved the way they looked the same, I loved that they were numbered, & I loved that they occasionally mentioned previous adventures. But. For some reason, maybe because my brother & I fought like cats & dogs, I didn't like the Hardy Boys that much. I read them. But I preferred Nancy Drew. She had a crew. I dug that.
That list doesn't include Nancy Drew because she was a fictitious. Here's a list of fictional Nancys. Strangely, it leaves out the best Nancy of all. This one:
It is of course Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy!
The strip has experienced a kind of revival with a new writer/artist (who uses the pseudonym Olivia Jaimes). A lot of people hate what she's done because she's updated Nancy by having her carry a cell phone, talk about the internet, etc. I think it's delightful. Here's one of her recent strips:
You can read 'em all at the Nancy web page. It's totally worth it!
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