Ozy and Millie
Wisdom for short attention spans.
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- So I screwed up my PO box December 12, 2018If you’ve gotten fan mail back, it’s my fault. I failed to keep my PO box paid up, and I know some people got mail back. I’m really sorry! Feel free to send stuff along to the new address: Dana Simpson PO Box 6347 Santa Barbara, CA 93160-6347 Again, I’m really sorry for the inconvenience! […]Dana Simpson
- The unicorn of Today July 9, 2018So the Today Show had Amazon.com list some summer reading books for young reluctant readers. I’m #8! I’m almost more excited that Breaking Cat News, by my friend Georgia Dunn, is #2. Go Georgia! Go kitties! Read more →Dana Simpson
- I won something! July 8, 2018It had been a little while since I actually won an award, though I’ve been nominated a few times. This time, kids did the voting! Phoebe was voted “Bravest Hero” (For The Magic Storm) at the Kids’ Comics Awards, at the Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival. (Which, by the way, I should attend some time. […]Dana Simpson
- I’ll be in Spokane July 8, 2018At Auntie’s Bookstore, this Friday (the 13th) at 6. Washington, I wish I knew how to quit you. Read more →Dana Simpson
- Wednesday in West Seattle June 19, 2018I’ll be returning to C&P Coffee Co. in West Seattle, for Words West Literary’s kids’ night. I’ll be reading some selections from various “Phoebe and Her Unicorn” books. It’ll be me and Suzanne Selfors. Last time it was fun! Starts at 6. Read more →Dana Simpson
- I am interviewed by children December 1, 2017One child, anyway. A little girl named Katy, in Massachussetts. She wrote a letter to her local paper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, asking them to please pick up ‘Phoebe and Her Unicorn.’ Not only did they, but they let her ask me some interview questions. And she really nailed it. Read about it here! […]Dana Simpson
- The Big Sparkly Box of Unicorn Magic October 19, 2017This week has been Magic Storm week, but next week, the first four books are coming out as a boxed set! Read more →Dana Simpson
- Happy Magic Storm release day! October 17, 2017The new book, which is the first one written as a standalone graphic novel, is here! Read more →Dana Simpson
- The gay unicorn agenda July 26, 2017Did you catch the reveal of Max’s parents in this week’s strips? I’ve actually known all along that Max has lesbian parents. I’ve been waiting for years for it to come up organically. And it actually did in the forthcoming Phoebe and Her Unicorn In: The Magic Storm, which is due out in October. So […]Dana Simpson
- School Library Journal June 28, 2017SLJ’s Brigid Alverson interviewed me for a great article about LGBTQ representation in comics. I’m quoted in the article, but I said a lot more, and apparently it was interesting enough that she also published the whole interview. Read more →Dana Simpson
the first page that started it all. *sigh* good times.
Gotta start reading!
One day in September 2010, I was surfing around on TV Tropes. I found a mention of this strip on one of the trope pages, then I decided to take a look at this comic’s page. I eventually started reading.
I’m the kind of person who tends to be engrossed with something for about half an hour and then never return to it again. Not with Ozy and Millie. Oh, no, no, no—I had come across an addiction! I came back the day after that, and the day after that. In a month’s time, I had read everything and started buying the merchandise. To this day, I wear an O&M shirt more often than not.
After already having read through the thing at least three times (some strips I’ve read a lot more often than that), I’m starting the plow-through again. You have kept me hooked, D.C., and for that I cannot thank you enough.
I cannot
The new site looks great! Very impressed and excited there is action here again. Can’t wait to see new pages. Made my Christmas to come here and find this. Happy holidays!
Hah, These comics are so cute.
Kinda funny looking back on this now. I remember going into kindergarten back about 1998 or 1999 and seeing this. Kinda nostalgic now that I graduated a couple days ago.
When i first delved into the internet for serious in 2003, i stumbled upon O&M simply by chance, looking for good webcomics.
Somehow, i never finished reading through the archives.
I again stumbled upon O&M by chance. This wink of destiny will not be in vain this time.
first strip and i can already tell he’s years ahead of his time
It’s only strip #1 and I can already tell that this is gonna be good.
Several years ago I was innocently reading reading my favorite comic about destructive intelligent kids(Precocious) when I saw the author mention that they got a lot of inspiration to draw from this funny and interesting comic called Ozy and Millie. I was reading it like that and I enjoyed every second of it. Now this is at least my fourth time reading it, that is how much I love this. It’s a shame it had to end, but it’s still so wonderful.
Thus does it begin.
I like this comic. I can’t explain it better than that.
It is said the Japanese believed 9/9/99 to have some significance or other. By a strange coincidence, that is the exact date I happened upon Ozy and Millie. Hooked from that moment. Still hooked today. You done good, Dana Simpson. 🙂
Iv’e got it! He’s a big fat praying mantis!
Why do I always find something new to read long after it has ended? Ah well. Here we go again.
If you look at the first strip an the last strip the difference is striking!
In part that is the addition of color, but the artistic style is substantially better too.
Do we ever see that girl again? It isn’t Millie.
I can’t believe I am back to where it started again. Well, time to read it again.
does anyone else see the rabbit playing jump-rope and have fun imagining it as jeremy?
No, the young Jeremy is the kid with the football at the bottom of panel 2.
Seriously, none of the other kids could come up with “candy ass”?
Starting my archive trawl here… wish me luck.
Oh geeze. I ship out to Basic in… Four days. Hope I can get through the strip in that time.
My nickname in school was “Kemo-Slobbie” (when it wasn’t Retard…and I have a 130 IQ).
Ozpanzias, Ozmozias
Ozpanzias, Ozmozias,ect
I love Ozy and Millie, it’s one of my all time favorite comic strips. I read it over at Gocomics, but every now and then I like to come here and start from the beginning.
oh dear… why im back here again? oh yeah…because this is awesome…
when you learn the author is also from the seattle area and you have to check out the comics
when you learn the author is also from the seattle area and you have to check out the comic
I know you hate your old work, but this Ozy and Millie changed lives. I’ve yet to find a comic I found anywhere near as enjoyable. Thank you, and I wish you luck with future endeavors. I’ll keep hoping my favorite two foxes come back.
*Been on the site for a grand total of three minutes, not even having seen a single other strip* “Ozymandias, causin’ de stress!”
Maybe?
I don’t know how to feel about the fact that the comic started exactly a year after I was born. My birthday’s on April 29th. I feel more attached to it now.