Ozy and Millie
Wisdom for short attention spans.
Over at my home station:
- 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
reading this in present day i think its funny that you mention amazon
You read it on the internet, folks!
I wish I could go back in time to the late 90’s and start a dot com. It didn’t matter if the idea was cr*p or all you had was a laptop; they would throw money at you. Heck, the dogfood-by-mail company pets.com never made anything- and investors gave them 300 million.
The person I am most envious of is the kid who came up with milliondollarhomepage.com, he sold his page to advertisers for $1 PER PIXEL.
Probably the dumbest idea ever to come out of that era was Kozmo,com. Yeah, like an online CONVENIENCE STORE was ever going to fly.
Well it’s easy to look back at the dot com boom and say “Look how dumb we were back then” but in all honesty, the internet was a new thing at the time. Every time a new good or service that is profitable comes out, people will rush to invest in it. Then that particular market goes through what many economists call the creative destructive process were the bad business models go out of business but the good ones stay and prosper.
Like I said, people love to laugh at the dot.com boom but look at what came out of it. Amazon, Youtube, Google, Facebook. Heck if it wasn’t for the dot.com boom, I don’t think Dana Simpson would be able to easily post her comics online.
if you went back in time with a laptop you could just patent it and make millions
Ozy is such an honest jerk.
The Hype Cycle:
1 Technology Trigger
2 Peak of Inflated Expectations
3 Trough of Disillusionment
4 Slope of Enlightenment
5 Plateau of Productivity
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