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 →
She’s randomly destructive and chock-full of zany spontaneity, but she’s not a bad kid. She doesn’t hurt other people, the trouble she gets into is generally more irksome and benign than truly harmful, and her arguments and name-calling matches with her mother result more often in grumbling acceptance than outright disobedience. I don’t think she’s a bad kid at all. Appropriately enough, she’s her mother all over again, with a dash of magic pirate.
I thought it likely that fox kits are born with closed eyes but didn’t *know* that and managed to find a web site that says (thefoxwebsite.net). Yes, born blind *and* deaf but the mother fox loves them anyway!
No, I am not criticising the comic, having Millie be able to make goo-goo eyes so soon after birth is what makes the punchline so dramatic. It’s a great strip!
It’s no use, Millie. Give it up.
Your Mom love you with all her heart…and there’s NOTHING you can do about it!
Yeah, makes it all the more tragic how she utterly treats her mom like crap.
She’s randomly destructive and chock-full of zany spontaneity, but she’s not a bad kid. She doesn’t hurt other people, the trouble she gets into is generally more irksome and benign than truly harmful, and her arguments and name-calling matches with her mother result more often in grumbling acceptance than outright disobedience. I don’t think she’s a bad kid at all. Appropriately enough, she’s her mother all over again, with a dash of magic pirate.
So she’ll grow up to be a lawyer?
only if your definition of treating your parents like crap is “isn’t perfectly behaved 100% of the time”
10 out of 10. Would cuddle.
I thought it likely that fox kits are born with closed eyes but didn’t *know* that and managed to find a web site that says (thefoxwebsite.net). Yes, born blind *and* deaf but the mother fox loves them anyway!
No, I am not criticising the comic, having Millie be able to make goo-goo eyes so soon after birth is what makes the punchline so dramatic. It’s a great strip!