{"id":1316,"date":"2009-02-07T22:29:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T02:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2009-02-07T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T02:29:10","slug":"the-nancy-weird-comic-strip-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1316","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Nancy&#8217; Weird Comic Strip Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was cleaning out my browser bookmarks today and among the things I encountered was <a href=\"http:\/\/blogflumer.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/re-order-peanuts-xmas.html\" target=\"_blank\">this old post<\/a> over at Blog Flume about a Wendy&#8217;s kids meal toy that allows you to generate a <em>Peanuts<\/em> comic strip by inserting pre-printed panels into a little &#8220;frame.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_3qaG_TBTUvc\/SVKNu55hEtI\/AAAAAAAAA3A\/fiPtZkSLbqU\/s320\/wp1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_3qaG_TBTUvc\/SVKNjuqCDPI\/AAAAAAAAA24\/5LtAcoA1JG8\/s320\/wp3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I bookmarked it not just because it&#8217;s cool (which it <em>is<\/em>), but also because it reminded me of something I made many years ago when I was teaching at the North Carolina Governor&#8217;s School and had access to lots of\u00a0 &#8220;real&#8221; art supplies: a mix and match <em>Nancy<\/em> strip generator.<\/p>\n<p>The genesis of this item was a weird piece of cardboard I&#8217;d found with an ocean image printed on it.\u00a0 I just started messing around with it and among the things hanging around the studio that caught my eye were a bunch of photocopied <em>Nancy<\/em> strips.\u00a0 (I can&#8217;t remember why now, but having a bunch of <em>Nancy<\/em> strips around requires no justification in my opinion.)\u00a0 Anyway, what emerged was this item:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"nancy_1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/02\/nancy_1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1317 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/02\/nancy_1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"nancy_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each of the &#8220;panels&#8221; is made of some cut-out images from a comic strip glued to a clear acetate sheet which can be pulled up and out of the frame by the black &#8220;handles&#8221; at the top (the one on the left has fallen off) and rearanged.\u00a0 It&#8217;d have been nice to have more &#8220;panels&#8221; to use other than just these three, but hey, what can I tell you&#8211;I was working on this on the taxpayers&#8217; dime!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another possible combo. You get the idea&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"nancy_2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/02\/nancy_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1318 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/02\/nancy_2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"nancy_2\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was cleaning out my browser bookmarks today and among the things I encountered was this old post over at Blog Flume about a Wendy&#8217;s kids meal toy that allows you to generate a Peanuts comic strip by inserting pre-printed panels into a little &#8220;frame.&#8221; I bookmarked it not just because it&#8217;s cool (which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1316\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-le","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}