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'''''Fritzi Ritz''''' is an American [[comic strip]] created in 1922 by Larry Whittington.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cartoonician.com/fritzi-ritz-before-bushmiller-shes-come-a-long-way-baby/ |title="Fritzi Ritz Before Bushmiller: She's Come a Long Way, Baby!," ''Hogan's Alley'' #7, 1999 |access-date=2013-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523214534/http://cartoonician.com/fritzi-ritz-before-bushmiller-shes-come-a-long-way-baby/ |archive-date=2013-05-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1925, the strip was taken over by [[Ernie Bushmiller]] and, in 1938, the daily strip evolved into the popular ''[[Nancy (comic strip)|Nancy]]''.<ref name=lam>[http{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bushmiller_e.htm Lambiek: Ernest|title=Ernie Bushmiller]|website=lambiek.net}}</ref> The Sunday edition of the strip, begun by Bushmiller in 1929, continued until 1967.<ref name=Holtz>{{cite book |last1=Holtz |first1=Allan |title=American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide |date=2012 |publisher=The University of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor |isbn=9780472117567 |page=163}}</ref>

Distributed by [[United Feature Syndicate]], ''Fritzi Ritz'' began October 9, 1922, in the ''[[New York World|New York Evening World]]''. Whittington left after three years, and starting May 14, 1925,<ref name=Holtz/> 20-year-old Bushmiller stepped in as his replacement, modeling Fritzi after his fiancée, Abby Bohnet, whom he married in 1930. In 1931, when the ''Evening World'' and the ''[[New York World-Telegram|New York Telegram]]'' merged, ''Fritzi Ritz'' was one of the strips lost in the shuffle, but it returned January 10, 1932, in the ''[[New York Daily Mirror]]''.<ref name=toon>[[http://www.toonopedia.com/fritzi.htm Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Fritzi Ritz] 'Fritzi Ritz''] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]. [https://www.webcitation.org/6jOtNcBxt?url=http://toonopedia.com/fritzi.htm Archived] from the original on July 30, 2016.</ref>