Ozy and Millie
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- 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
- I am a geek and these are my secret loves June 27, 2017I contributed a story to Dark Horse Comics’s The Secret Loves of Geeks. Some other amazing contributors, too. Check it out. Read more →Dana Simpson
- Music Monday April 17, 2017Scandanavia does many things well. Including songs. Read more →Dana Simpson
- Unicorn Crossing March 29, 2017Hooray! New book! Read more →Dana Simpson
- There’s No Place Like Home February 28, 2017I’m headed back to Seattle, land of my youth. And my early adulthood. And my early middle adulthood. Look for me at Emerald City comic con this weekend! Booth 512. The Collapsar booth. (Collapsar is a loose group of people I’ve been splitting an ECCC booth with for several years.)Â Read more →Dana Simpson
- Music Monday December 12, 2016I’m pretty sure I’m stealing that tradition from someone. Possible Atrios? I’m too lazy to check. This is my favorite REM song. Read more →Dana Simpson
- Friday Cat Blogging November 25, 2016Me: Hey, look how Sofia’s posed on the landing! It’s a perfect photo opportunity! *grabs phone, lines up shot* Sofia: Took too long! You snooze you lose. Read more →Dana Simpson
- At the end of the tour November 21, 2016Three weeks. Like 16 elementary schools and some bookstores too, from south of LA all the way up to Portland. And I met a LOT of incredible kids, and adults too. I’m still processing it all…thanks, everybody. Read more →Dana Simpson
- Upcoming appearances October 29, 2016As you can see on the left side of this page, I’ve got a couple bookstore appearances coming up. If you’re in the San Francisco Bay area or near Portland, Oregon, come out and see me! 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