If 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! […]
So 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 →
It 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. […]
I’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 →
One 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! […]
Did 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 […]
SLJ’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 →
Typing it on a computer could cause baldness from, lets see what was that type of radiation that people were afraid of, but no household appliances actually give out?
I think you’re thinking of electromagnetic fields. Appliances do create them, but there’s absolutely no evidence they have any effect on us. The study that started that whole issue was one that appeared to show a higher level of leukemia in people living under power lines, but later studies failed to find the same effect. The study was flawed in that it failed to take into account other factors, like that houses under power lines were also often in poor areas near industrial sites.
Um, is graphite poisoning really a thing? Please tell me it’s not a thing, because it undermines many of my basic principles! Really, it does! I’m not crazy! Who says I’m crazy?
Typing it on a computer could cause baldness from, lets see what was that type of radiation that people were afraid of, but no household appliances actually give out?
I think you’re thinking of electromagnetic fields. Appliances do create them, but there’s absolutely no evidence they have any effect on us. The study that started that whole issue was one that appeared to show a higher level of leukemia in people living under power lines, but later studies failed to find the same effect. The study was flawed in that it failed to take into account other factors, like that houses under power lines were also often in poor areas near industrial sites.
Another fun factor: The EM flux from wiring in your walls is stronger than that from overhead cables.
Um, is graphite poisoning really a thing? Please tell me it’s not a thing, because it undermines many of my basic principles! Really, it does! I’m not crazy! Who says I’m crazy?
If a camera can do it, then he’s not safe around anything.
That instance was caused by faulty wiring.
First on that list would be “Being within 100 yards of you, Millie.”
1. Being within 100 yards Millie.
2. Faulty wiring.
3. Nair mistaken for shampoo.
4. Sneezing dragons
5. Hiccuping dragons
6 burping dragons.
7 Millie again.