Ozy and Millie
Wisdom for short attention spans.
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- Ponycon poster August 27, 2012Had a blast at the con, too. […]Dana
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- Friday cat blogging April 27, 2012My friend K.T. made this from some shots that happened when Gladys got curious about a webcam. […]Dana
- Popular April 25, 2012From the gocomics.com frontpage a few hours ago: In terms of popularity, at that moment in time, I was sandwiched between one of my cartooning idols, and a strip which, to quote Homer Simpson, is “about two naked eight year olds who are married.” […]Dana
- In stealth, we have begun! April 22, 2012The official launch date for “Heavenly Nostrils” is tomorrow! But I have snuck in a day early, because I never do things by the rules. Also “snuck” is so a word. Go look! And then read it every day! […]Dana
- Friday cat blogging April 6, 2012Gladys enjoys the sun shining in the back window. […]Dana
- The 23rd April 6, 2012April 23rd is a bunch of things. It’s my birthday. Also Shakespeare’s, and Michael Moore’s.It’s Earth Day. And it’s the scheduled launch date of my comic strip, “Heavenly Nostrils.” The countdown is on! Have a taste of the spot art the syndicate asked me to give them. […]Dana
- I make pony shirts March 21, 2012For the welovefine.com pony shirt contest:Â Vote for me! […]Dana
- Coming soon to unicorn mobile devices February 15, 2012The strip formerly known as “Girl” will be launching in April on gocomics.com, it seems. I’m now calling it: […]Dana
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Wow, 2183 comics?! I didn’t realize that there was so many pages… Read it a few years ago. Loved it when Isolde ‘tailed’ the bully.
I need more milly!
she makes my childhood happy
and my inner sociopath too
I hope you come back and do more soon. It’s been almost 3 years now.
It’s been 3.34 years to be exact. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=December+23%2C+2008
I found this webcomics few days ago, and I think its great! Please, come back to it! I would really want to see younger characters more mature (or, frankly, how they don’t grow up, despite their age). And you presented world problems in such funny way, too.
I read a bunch of these back when you were first doing them, but when I got caught up, I forgot about the site rather than come back to it daily, I definitely missed out though, back then I always had a feeling you’d have those two get married, and it’s a cute strip to out on, definitely worth the read
Sooo can milly go bald every year now too?
I think you should do one where Ozy & Millie meet the kids who live in Gemstone Estates. (better known as the cast of Precocious. http://www.precociouscomic.com/ Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if Mille and Autumn were related.)
I discovered this a couple weeks ago and just now got through reading all the Ozzie and Millie comics from 1998 to 2008. The whole thing was really endearing and funny. Bravo.
I have strong impression you were inspired in some sort by Moomin Troll?
These characters and atmosphere seems very familiar
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(huh.. last time I read those books was like 8 years ago
This series is AMAZING!!!!! I hope that you get back to it as soon as possible!
I found this two or three days ago via Sandra and Woo, and I have to say it was absolutely beautiful in the time it took me to catch up. I was a little surprised when the adults started exhibiting lovelike behavior, considering I kinda liked the idea of the kids growing up like that, but I still don’t think it could have ended on a better note.
Here’s hoping you end up coming back to us one day.
This comic is older than I am. LOL! I thoroughly enjoyed it, your fan number will continue to grow, weither you are here or not. But still make more, pweese?
I think this is my third trip through your archives. Now I just have to get my boyfriend reading it. Luckily, he thinks he’s a dragon already.
love the comic hope for more soon
Hard to believe its been over 4 years since the amazing end to Ozy and Millie. I remember reading this comic way back when it was still updating. Out of curiosity last week I decided to check for any updates and ended up re-reading the entire thing. Ozy and Millie was a humorous, touching, intelligent and very well drawn comic. I absolutely loved every strip, and really wish there were more. However, I understand the need for an artist to move on and expand to grow and improve themselves and their work. Look forward to checking out Heavenly Nostrils when it launches and seeing how far your work has evolved. And maybe one day we can come back to Ozy and Millie together, as old friends.
i discovered your comic 2 days ago, i am now late on my own comic. whoops. totally worth staying up for 38 or so hours straight. kinda sad it’s over now, it was a great read, i’m happy you gave it a real (but open ended) ending, and i do hope you come back to it, it’s a wonderful, and silly story, with quite a bit of inteligence strewn about. thank you for this wonderful read.
This has been an awesome read, I’m actually kinda glad this one has an ending, it’s been long coming, and very satisfying to see through to fruition. I dare say I enjoyed it more than Calvin & Hobbes, despite some of the influence being draconically apparent :p.
I will be watching this space, it was a thrilling read.
I discovered this strip through Sandra and Woo just a few days ago. I have spent those days going through the entire wonderful archive. I sincerely cannot believe that this strip was never syndicated! I am following Heavenly Nostrils and agree that it is cute, but this strip is awesome (to quote my kids) and I pray that you will return to it one day.
There is a dearth of intelligent comics and you really need to provide this service. Love to you (and Ozy, Millie and the rest).
I thought it’d be weird to post on something that was made four years ago… but there’s a post just five days ago, so it’s all good. :3
Anyways, this is my second time reading every last strip of this, start to finish (not on one sitting, though I did get through a year or two’s worth in this one. Been up for about 6 hours).
There’s something to like about all of these characters. If this got restarted, I’d follow it fervently.
Let this not follow the poem “Ozymandias.”
“Ozy and Millie” FTW!
Peace out, fuzzballs~ May your further adventuring be as weird and as wonderful as your past shenanigans. Much love <3
am i the only one who actually wishes that millie and ozy were dating
After having read “Heavenly Nostrils” for the past few months, I searched for other things you created, Dana, and I found “Ozy and Millie.” In the past couple of weeks, I’ve read them all and enjoyed them immensely. Thank you for giving us both of these worlds.
And it’s good to know that the enjoyment of blowing bubbles (and feeling sad for them) is a universal constant!
Great comic…while I wish for more, I understand moving on…
I really needed to read this comic throughout my years in middle and high school. I could totally relate to both characters, and I was really sad to see them go. I hope you’re happy now, and that you’ll revisit this world sometime in the future, even if it’s just sketches.
Well, I am here to thank you basically, miss Dana.
You have done a splendid job in those comic strips. The mixture of philosophy and emotions is just sweet. You have managed to achieve very accurately the feeling of the characters, and not only the uniqueness of Millie or the harmony of Ozy, but also delve inside the mind of Felicia and Avery for example, reflecting on the social pressure that kids all around the world go through and we more than often treat as “passage rites”, be them the cool kids or the marginalised nerds.
I also loved the adult characters. I would not stop being amazed at how Millie`s mother managed to overcome EVERYTIME the smartness of the little tomboy fox.
It has been a great pleasure to read all of your archive, and I hope you are well and healthy.
Peace!
Yes just finished reading all of it. I love the ending still sad its ending though. I can honestly say this has been my favorite webcomic. Hope i have a son and daughter like ozy and millie someday.
Used to read this regularly years ago, and then stopped … I think during one of the long pauses. Couldn’t remember the name and have been searching for it ever since. Just found it again last week. Thanks for the story, Dana. Always loved it.
i started reading this 3 days ago and i’m sad by the fact that it’s over…Come Back Millie!! i’ll miss you Ozy!!
and to the Author…this is a job well done. i’ve never felt so Zen as when i read Ozy’s quotes, or so sane as when Millie made a decision to do anything
Well, this…. this made me think. Not only think, but feel… I miss it already, and I just finished it. It’s a fitting end, I think; I hope that other long-running webcomics can hope to end on a note like this. If the world ends tomorrow (which it won’t), I can honestly say that I’m glad I spent my last hours reading this.
I just found this web comic a coupe of days ago, and I’m really glad I did. I’m still about 10 years behind, but I’m somewhat glad because it’s the kind of written work I don’t want to end. It’s cute, yet at the same time has deep philosophical concepts, and political messages I love. I really like the comics making fun of commercialism, but to pick just one aspect doesn’t really do justice to the work; they all work well together to form a thoroughly entertaining comic strip and story. If there’s one flaw it’s that the series ends, depriving us of more hilarious antics and entertaining portrayals of the world. Of course this comes from someone who has not read through to the end. It may be that it has a fitting end and to continue would strain it. I don’t know, I simply wish to express my approval of this. In any event, I can say from what limited exposure I have to Ozy and Milli that I would love to see more, and hope that the caption about how this is, of course, not the end it true. Thanks for the laughs!
I recently finished reading through your comics. I just wanted to say they are awesome and I thoroughly enjoyed reading them. Thanks for the the deep thoughts, the social commentary, the relatable characters, the entertaining story lines, and of course the laughs!
Truly the greatest of all webcomics is this lovely comic you have created
thank for this little dream you give to us, i read it all in 1 day; iwant to say hundred of think about this coming but i think that the only that really count is THANK YOU.
I just finished the comic as its temporary end, I really like the story. It’s been a few years since the comic ended so I’m envisioning 2 things and those are Millie’s mom pregnant/with a new born fox/dragon hybrid and the kids as teenagers.
Thank you, Dana. This comic, like all good things, had to come to an end, but it was a beautiful end, and it left possibilities open. Though like all endings, it is bittersweet: Ozy, Millie, and the rest of their spectacular world can go on exploring, playing, discovering, and above all having fun, but we won’t be able to watch, at least not for a while.
But that’s okay, as watching isn’t the only way this improves our lives. In an introduction to Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card said, amongst other things, “The “true” story is not the one the one that exists in my mind, it is CERTAINLY not the written words on the bound paper that you hold in your hands. The story in my mind is nothing but a hope; the text of a story is the tool I created in order to try to make that hope a reality. The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.” Ozy and Millie have certainly taught me new perspectives, and new ideas.
Thank you, Dana, for enriching my world.
I randomly found this comic through TVTropes. So glad I read through it all. :3
Third readthrough! This comic never gets old…
I found this 2-3 days ago through Sandra and Woo, and read it all the way through in that time. I just found it so fantastic I couldn’t stop reading. It saddens me to know that there are no more comics for me to read, and there won’t be for some time. Regardless, I plan to come back and read through the archives a year from now, when they will seem fresh and new again.
Thank you for the laughter, and the insight. I feel wiser than before having read this.
Also, I totally plan to use “you can accept the existence of rain without denying the existence of umbrellas” in conversation at some point. It’s a fantastic line, so thanks for that one too.
WHERE ARE THE NEW COMICS???? Unicorn thing updates but ozy and milly dosent!?!??!?!?!?
Ozy and Millie ended almost 5 years ago. Heavenly Nostrils is her latest work.
I know this has been gone for a long time, but I just want to thank you for those years of comics. I had been a fan for a long time, and everything about the comic, such as Millie and Ozy’s odd adventures, Llewellyn’s strange wisdom and sometimes ridiculous activities, Ms. Mudd’s clever battles of wits with her daughter, Avery’s hilarious brief-lived phases, Timulty’s randomness, and everything any of the teachers did, always made me laugh. Ozy and Millie is, undoubtedly, my favorite webcomic, and I’m glad to see that you continue to make great comics for Heavenly Nostrils.
Really, there was not a single story without a strip that makes me break out laughing even on rereading. Thank you for everything.
but… but… I wanna see ozy and millie in middle school… I wanna see felicia and millie become friends, ozy learn how to levitate… the world evolve, I want to see more crass, sarcastic political jokes (I LOVE THOSE) and of course, more cuteness. This is your best work, Dana! Please don’t give it up forever. You DID leave it at ‘To be continued” after all…
Aww.. How terribly sudden.
I do hope this is taken up again someday.. however entertain Heavenly Nostrils may be >.>
*entertaining even. Bother, sorry.
So… Ozy wears pants to bed but not outside?
NEED MOAR!!! Please continue Ozy and Millie!