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American comic strip

Fritzi Ritz is an American comic strip created in 1922 by Larry Whittington.^[2] In 1925, the strip was taken over by Ernie Bushmiller and, in 1938, the daily strip evolved into the popular Nancy.^[3] The Sunday edition of the strip, begun by Bushmiller in 1929, continued until 1967.^[4]

Publication history

Distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Fritzi Ritz began October 9, 1922, in the New York Evening World.

Whittington left after three years, and starting May 14, 1925,^[4] 20-year-old Bushmiller stepped in as his replacement, eventually modeling Fritzi after his fiancée, Abby Bohnet, whom he married in 1930.

In 1931, when the Evening World and the New York Telegram merged, Fritzi Ritz was briefly without a paper in New York City until it was picked up on January 10, 1932 by the New York Daily Mirror.^[5]

Characters and story

Fritzi was initially portrayed as a flapper, wh