[4] 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.

[5] Fritzi was initially portrayed as a flapper, whose main concerns were men, clothes, cosmetics, and money.

When Bushmiller died, the Nancy strip was taken over by Mark Lasky (dailies) and Al Plastino (Sundays).

When Guy Gilchrist and his brother Brad took over, they re-introduced Fritzi, increasing her visibility to the point where she was equally prominent with Nancy herself.

Current writer/artist Olivia Jaimes rebooted the series, bringing it back to the status quo of the late Bushmiller era, albeit with a focus on modern tech.

She had a regular boyfriend, Ted Nichols (who was poor) and fended off the attentions of Bobby Bonds (who was rich).

Most of the 1920s gags took place at work, either in the studio or on location shooting at the beach, the mountains, in the country, or at a farm.

In 1925, Larry Whittington left the strip to create another, Mazie the Model (syndicated by King Features).

[7] In May of that year, Bushmiller took over the strip, and Fritzi eventually began dating a new regular boyfriend, Wally.

Sluggo Smith is introduced in the dailies in January 1938 and at first Fritzi does not get along with him, venting at Nancy over his uncouth manners.

Gradually she warms to him and there is never any friction between the two characters after that; in fact, there are not very many scenes involving just Fritzi and Sluggo in the Sunday Nancy comics or the dailies.

[11] In 1976, then-University students Neil Wedman and Bob Strazicich produced a public-access television program called Medium Nights in Vancouver, Canada which featured, among other segments, recreations of Nancy comic strips.