![]() ![]() 16 As she describes it, this scene actually would have happened before she met Henri (in 1936), but it the story flowed better if it was slotted it in here.ġ7 Henri’s parents hated Nancy. 15 The background of the top panel shows a window with the word “JUDE” (Jew) painted on it, and some actual flyers handed out that warned against racial mixing. The guy on the right is using a metal baton with a leather strap on the end of it, which is the closest thing to a “whip” I could find used by street patrols. I’ve no doubt, however, that she saw some awful treatment of Jews, so I instead portrayed some incidents for which I could find photo evidence, and hit the same note in her life. Hitler did speak in Berlin at Brandenberg Gate, but in 1936, for the Olympics. I could find no mention anywhere of Nazis strapping people to wheels for public shaming, or for them using whips outside of concentration camps (and occasionally, by Hitler, for show). She recounts going to Berlin in 1935, seeing Jews tied to wheels and whipped, and Hitler giving a speech in front of Brandenberg Gate. I am trying to do more full-painted backgrounds and it came out well.ġ4 So here is a deviation from the story as she tells it. 13 I’m pretty proud of the background in panel one. 11 This scene actually happened at the end of the club night, as opposed to them ditching their dates in the middle of a dance, but I maintain that’s something they would have done.ġ2 If it isn’t obvious, these are Jewish refugees, whom she met at her favorite cafe in Paris, Luigi’s. Nancy talked a fair bit about the nasty and frequent sex they would have. Her hairstyle, the Eton Crop, was taken from her love of contemporary movie star Tallulah Bankhead.ĩ Yes, she actually went to clubs with her dog, a wire terrier named Picon.ġ0 Henri was a wealthy industrialist and man about town. She had a lot of stories.Ĩ This interview is basically verbatim lifted from her telling of it. Along the way, she got into a fight with a boxer over a game of cards and got hit on by a lesbian woman, at which point she decided, somewhat to her chagrin, that she was straight. She hit up Vancouver, New York, and London, where she went to school for journalism. 7 Her aunt Hinamoa, one of the black sheep of the family, gave her 200 pounds to go out and travel. She ran away at 16, stayed with one of her siblings, took on a different name (where the middle name was Anne, off of Anne of Green Gables), and started working as a nurse. One anecdote I’m gutted I couldn’t fit in had her and another young nurse getting shitfaced on wine to handle carting out a dead patient, only for them to slip in the mud, the corpse to slip out of their hands, and for them to realize he was enormously well-endowed. Nancy loved this book and Anne of the Island, and took them with her wherever she went.Ħ Skipping over a LOT of her story here. Another instance, several years later, had her making fun of an unfortunately-named teacher, Fanny Menlove, by transposing her surname and given name to make the most obvious possible joke.ĥ Anne of Green Gables is a book (well, first of several) about a young girl who goes to live with another family and ends up on a lot of adventures. For those who have trouble with the handwriting, it reads: “Isn’t it funny / to see a little bunny / waiting for her Mummy / to come and wipe her bummy?” 4 This was far from the last time she engaged in bawdy wordplay. 3 This incident, of her writing a fairly innocuous dirty rhyme and being excoriated by her mother, is recounted verbatim in the FitzSimmons book. She had four siblings, most of them much older. Her father left when she was very young and her strict religious mother raised her alone. I absolutely believe the crux of her stories - and given her extensive collection of war medals, so did many governments and militaries - but I also believe she inflated her tales somewhat, as many do.Ģ Nancy was born in New Zealand, and was descended from broadly western European lineage, with the exception of her great-great-grandmother Pourewa, who was Maori. Where I’ve run into these, as opposed to directly portraying verbatim what she described, I portray a more verifiably-plausible version. 1 I go into this in more detail throughout, but Nancy gave many interviews later in her life where subtle details don’t quite add up or fit. ![]()
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