Origins of some names in the strip, some well known and some not: 1. Phoebe is named for Phoebe Caulfield, the protagonist’s younger sister in J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye.” 2. Phoebe’s last name, Howell, is in honor of Jimmy Howell, the kid across the street who was my best friend in preschool. […]
I love Olympia Washington (a town a character on “Bojack Horseman” recently described as “B-plus”; he is wrong). It’s where I attended college (I’m a graduate of The Evergreen State College, a school that seems to produce a lot of cartoonists), and thus where I lived for several years in my late teens and twenties. […]
Razzle Dazzle Unicorn release party, at Seattle’s University Bookstore again last week! A good time was had by all. Did they make me another awesome cake? Of course they did. Read more →
After I mentioned former Treasury Secretary (and Kansan, apparently) Georgia Neese Clark in Saturday’s strip, I was contacted by the Kansas Historical Society, the curator of which had this to say: Good afternoon! I am the Museum Curator for the Kansas Historical Society, and a reader of comic strips and editorial cartoons, often looking for […]
I guess People who aren’t stalking me have not noticed, but I have in fact moved south, down to California. (New address is on my info page.) Living in Southern California has been something I’ve fondly imagined since I was a kid, in my native beautiful-but-rainy Seattle. And recently it happened, when my husband accepted […]
I’m nominated for a Harvey Award! For “Best Syndicated Strip or Panel.” If you’re a fellow comics person, I would be honored if you would consider voting for me. Read more →
I got this from the late great King Features editor Jay Kennedy in like 2003. It’s the most handwriting I’d ever gotten on a response. Despite the fact that it was an explanation of my being rejected, and the fact that he couldn’t be bothered to spell Ozy’s name correctly (really, few ever have), it […]
Because some people complained that some of the text in 4/24’s strip was hard to read (white text on a perhaps too-light violet background), I offer this darkened version. Read more →
Woohoo! I’m an artist.
Seriously. You could put me in a room with a pair of mimes and I’d be the quiet one.
Especially if it’s these mimes: http://www.umbilicalbrothers.com/
If so, I want to be the guy who sells a blank canvas to the museum and calls it modern art.
I think I’ve seen that.
Well, Millie’s messages may not be profound, but they usually are cryptic.