Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄

@danasimpson

Official account for the artist behind "Phoebe and Her Unicorn" and "Ozy and Millie" — watch this space for information and announcements. Personal account is @danacorn.bsky.social.

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· 10d

I did not take a picture! So have this photo of me with her in 2002 to at least prove I know what she looks like? (We’re both returning from the same event, today.)

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· 11d

And everybody knows they’re gonna give it to me eventually. Meanwhile, I get to keep this sign!

Dana in front of her Cartoonist of the Year easel sign

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· 12d

Whilst I await my other account being unsuspended, have this photo of myself and @gull.us with Snoopy. Clearly I am a menace.

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· 14d

On my way to the Reubens! I left a signed copy of book 23 in the Little Free Library in SeaTac Terminal A.

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Jul 20

Here's a very early one, from the first year of Ozy and Millie. The style shift between this and the later strips is profound, but they definitely still have their charm. ozyandmillie.org/1998/07-20/i...

A four-panel comic strip featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie. They're sitting on the floor, coloring on paper with crayons.
Panel 1:
Millie: "Hmm...'Raw Sienna' or 'Burnt Umber.'"
Panel 2:
Millie (after nibbling the crayons): "Oh, 'Burnt Umber,' definitely."
Panel 3:
*Ozy looks at her*
Panel 4:
Millie: "I've always prided myself on my refined artistic taste."

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Jul 5

ozyandmillie.org/2002/07-04/i... From the "One Millie, Under God" storyline, which starts here: ozyandmillie.org/2002/07-01/i...

A four-panel comic strip, featuring Millie (a fox child) and Mililani (her mom.)
They're sitting outside watching fireworks.
Panel 1:
Mililani: "Mm...fabulous fireworks display, this year."
Millie: "Yeah, I guess so."
Panel 2:
Mililani: "What's the matter?"
Millie: "I'm still being righteously indignant.
Panel 2:
Mililani: "You're really upset about something."
Millie: "I guess."
Mililani: "Well, you've gone the entire 4th of July without blowing anything up."
Millie: "Well, nothing YOU found out ab-- Um, hey, look at that!"

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Jul 1

The last two panels to this are so widely applicable. ozyandmillie.org/2006/06-30/i...

A four panel comic, featuring Millie (a fox child) and Felicia (a sheep child).
Panel 1:
Felicia: "So, like, I want you to help me find some COOL new artists to listen to."
Panel 2:
Millie: "Felicia, the music I listen to MEANS something to me. Why should I share it with someone like you?"
Panel 3:
Felicia: "'Cause I'm a nice person!"
Panel 4:
Millie: "No you're not."
Felicia: "Am so! How could- Oh, you mean to YOU."

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Jun 30

It's probably on leaf support. ozyandmillie.org/2007/06-29/i...

A four-panel comic featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie.
Panel 1:
Millie: "Ozy, do you think plants feel pain?"

Panel 2:
Ozy: "I'm kind of inclined to think no, not as we understand pain."

Panel 3:
Millie (looking thoughtful): "Hm."

Panel 4:
Millie: "So I wasted my whole morning torturing that cabbage."
Ozy: "It wasn't a waste. You learned something."

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Jun 28

I stopped by Bloomsbury Books in Ashland and signed some books! If you're in town check the place out, and don't miss their cafe on the top floor.

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· May 31

Eradicating evil: ozyandmillie.org/2004/05-27/i...

A four-panel comic featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie.
Panel 1:
Millie is sitting at a booth with a sign that says "ALL EVIL ERADICATED: $1"
Panel 2:
Ozy walks up. "How's business?"
Millie: "Pretty bad."
Panel 3:
Millie: "For SOME reason nobody seems to trust me to eradicate evil!"
Panel 4:
Ozy: "I think it's because of what you put in the Johnsons' mailbox this morning."
Millie: "I haven't done it SINCE! I bet that's more evil than YOU'VE eradicated today."

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· May 28

Linguistic Originality: ozyandmillie.org/2006/05-31/i...

A four panel comic featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie.
Panel 1:
Millie: "I've decided to eliminate quotations from my conversation."
Panel 2:
Millie: "If someone else famously said it, I won't! From now on I want my ideas to be meaningful and memorable in their own right."
Panel 3:
Ozy: "Hm, how far are you willing to go in pursuit of total linguistic originality?"
Panel 4:
Millie: "Florb."
Ozy: "I guess at this point originality IS kind of slim pickings."

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· May 19

The world before civilization: ozyandmillie.org/2007/05-18/i...

A five-panel, color, Sunday-style comic strip. Ozy and Millie (two fox children) are standing on a hill, looking out at a suburban vista below, as night slowly falls.

Panel 1:
Millie: "Sometimes, when I stand someplace high up like this..."

Panel 2:
Millie: "I try to imagine what all of this USED to look like, before all the buildings, before all the lights."

Panel 3:
Millie: "I try to imagine what the world looked like before civilization transformed it."

Panel 4:
(silent beat panel)

Panel 5:
Millie: "Dark, I figure."
Ozy: "Civilization: A bigger version of your 'Sponge Bob' night light."

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· May 10

THE JUNK DRAWER 🌩️: ozyandmillie.org/2005/05-10/i...

A four panel comic featuring fox children Ozy and Millie, and Ozy's dad, Llewellyn, a dragon.
Panel 1:
Ozy: "Dad, do we have any dice?"
Llewellyn: "Hm. You should probably check..."
Panel 2:
Llewellyn (lightning crackling in the background): "The junk drawer."
Panel 3:
Millie: "Wow. Your dad can make ANYTHING sound scary and exciting."
Panel 4:
Ozy: "You get used to it after a while."
Llewellyn (off-screen, lightning crackling again): "Oops, I got guacamole on my apron."

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· May 4

The Imperial March: ozyandmillie.org/2000/01-26/i...

A three panel comic strip featuring Millie (a fox child) and her mom, Millilani.
Panel 1:
Mililani, holding a boombox: "Millie, clean your room."
Boombox: Bum bum ba dummm
Panel 2:
Boombox: Bum ba dum bum ba dummmm
Panel 3:
Millie, heading upstairs: "You know he means business when she plays the Darth Vader theme music while she tells you."

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· May 4

That's *clearly* a unicorn in disguise. You can't fool me. apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26050...

NASA image of the Trifid Nebula, with a pillar that looks suspiciously like a unicorn horn on the left side.

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· May 3

I think a lot of younger people now don't realize just how freely "gay" was thrown around as an insult in the late 90s/early 2000s. This is only a slight exaggeration. ozyandmillie.org/2003/05-02/i...

A four panel comic, featuring Jeremy (a rabbit bully) and Ozy (a small fox child.)
Panel 1:
Jeremy: "hey look, it's GAY BOY. how's it going, GAY BOY?"
Ozy: "Gay boy?"

Panel 2:
Ozy: "Hm, I don't THINK I'm gay. Then again I don't want to deny it TOO vociferously because I wouldn't want to send the impression I consider it an insult..."

Panel 3:
Ozy: "and then there's the fact that I'm ten years old, so the whole IDEA is pretty meaningless."

Panel 4:
Jeremy: "that's, like, the gayest possible response."
Ozy: "Well, I could have kissed you, but that strikes me as really unappealing."

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· May 1

The greatest thing ever: ozyandmillie.org/2004/05-03/i...

A four panel comic, featuring Ozy (a fox child wearing a top hat) and Llewellyn (his father, a dragon.)
Panel 1:
Ozy: "Dad, what would you say is the greatest thing you've ever experienced?"
Llewellyn: "Oh, that's easy."
Panel 2:
Llewellyn: "There was this waffle I had once in Belgium. It defies description."
Panel 3:
(Ozy looks meaningfully at the reader.)
Panel 4:
Ozy: "Aren't you bound by parent law to say 'Raising YOU, my dear boy'?"
Llewellyn: "Oh, but you didn't *taste* this waffle."

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Apr 26

Area raccoon discovers he may already be a loser: ozyandmillie.org/2003/04-26/i... The pen-and-ink original of this strip, as well as many others, is available for purchase. See ozyandmillie.org for details!

A four-panel comic.
Panel 1:
Avery (a raccoon, holding a piece of paper): "Ack! Will you look at THIS?!"
Panel 2:
Ozy (a fox, reading over his shoulder): "You may already be a winner."
Avery: "Don't you see what that IMPLIES?"
Panel 3:
Avery: "It follows that I may just as easily be a LOSER! What is this, COOLNESS PRETERMINISM?! There may be NOTHING I can DO!!"
Panel 4:
Ozy (addressing the reader): "Avery's mind is just sharp enough for him to impale himself on it."

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Apr 21

Dry marker crisis: ozyandmillie.org/2007/08-28/i...

A four-panel strip featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie. They're lying on the floor, coloring with markers.
Panel 1:
Millie: "Darn it... I HATE it when I'm drawing and I discover the one marker I really NEED is all dried up."
Panel 2:
Millie: "Now I'm going to have to scour the entire house for some substitute substance that's EXACTLY the same shade of blue, then swipe it while mom's not paying attention!"
Panel 3:
Ozy: "Wouldn't it be easier if you just borrowed MY blue marker?"
Panel 4:
Millie: "Ozy, in some ways you and I are very different people."
Ozy: "...yeah, I dunno what I was thinking."

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Apr 20

Introducing coffee to the west: ozyandmillie.org/2007/04-20/i...

A four panel coffee strip:
Panel 1:
Milliani, a vixen, holding a coffee cup: "Your ancestors invented coffee?"
Llewellyn, a dragon: "Not invented, exactly."
Panel 2:
Llewellyn: "But they were responsible for introducing coffee beans to the West, in the 17th century."
Panel 3:
Llewellyn: "At the time, my great uncle Jack van Llewellyn was considered a bit of a simpleton."
Panel 4:
Unnamed fox in a turban: "How about you sell me that cow for these five magic beans?"
Jack van Llewellyn: "Okay!"
Unnamed cow: "...hey!"

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Apr 16

Logical Fallacy Tag: ozyandmillie.org/2007/01-19/i...

A three panel comic featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie. They're running around playing tag.
Panel 1:
Millie: "If you're 'it,' then we're playing tag. We ARE playing tag, therefore, you're 'it.'"
Panel 2:
Ozy: "Most people in a game of tag are not 'it.' I'm playing tag, therefore I'm not 'it,' so therefore YOU'RE 'it.'"
Panel 3:
Millie: "Oh SNAP! Good use of inductive argument."
Ozy: "We're playing 'logical fallacy tag.'"

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Apr 14

In the hands of the least able: ozyandmillie.org/2002/04-13/i...

A four-panel comic. Llewellyn, a dragon, and Mililani, a vixen, are chatting at a cafe.
Panel 1:
Llewellyn: "It's a funny thing, the way we so often put so much in the hands of our least able."
Panel 2:
Llewellyn: "We fear those with enough intelligence to challenge, or to scheme... in the end, we seem to prefer decision-makers too *simple* to be successfully dishonest."
Panel 3:
Llewellyn: "Why, we chose a president almost entirely because he was *simpler*, and therefore somehow more honest, than the competition..."
Panel 4:
Llewellyn: "I never did take to Rutherford B. Hayes."
Mililani: "Uh huh."

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Apr 12

Pledge drive: ozyandmillie.org/2005/04-13/i...

A four-panel comic featuring Millie, a fox child, and her mom.
Panel 1:
Mom: "How was school today, Millie?"
Millie: "Oh, it was OK."
Panel 2:
Millie: "Don't you love conversations like this one? I know I do."
Panel 3:
Millie: "But if you want me to be able to bring you the rest of this conversation, I need your financial contributions. Don't wait!"
Panel 4:
Mom (to camera): "I'm never letting her watch PBS during a pledge drive again."
Millie (holding out her backpack): "For $50, you also get this tote bag!"

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Apr 11

Master of her moods: ozyandmillie.org/2003/04-12/i... From the storyline where Millie loses the spelling bee, which starts here: ozyandmillie.org/2003/03-28/i...

A four panel comic featuring Millie, a fox child.
Panel 1:
Millie: "I am NOT going to let the outcome of the spelling bee get me down. I'm just NOT."
Panel 2:
Millie: "I am MASTER of my moods, and I have decided to feel OK about everything."
Panel 3:
Millie: "Nothing can make me unhappy unless I choose to LET it!"
Panel 4:
(Millie sighs, looking dejectedly into the distance.)

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Apr 10

Pining for lost youth: ozyandmillie.org/2000/04-11/i... Books! Originals! Digital archives! Find it all at ozyandmillie.org.

A four-panel comic featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie. They're chatting while hanging out under a tree.
Panel 1:
Millie: "Ozy...do you remember the good old days?"
Panel 2:
Millie: "Days when life was so much simpler...values were the center of our existence...life revolved not around crass materialism, but around the simple, honest joy of living."
Panel 3:
(pause for emphasis)
Panel 4:
Ozy: "We're eight years old."
Millie: "Shh! I'm busy pining for my lost youth."

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Apr 9

As so often happened in stories of love, something intervened. In this case, allergies. ozyandmillie.org/2000/05-26/i...

Panel 1:
Young Llewellyn is knocking on the unicorn's door, holding a bouquet of flowers
Llewellyn: "Alas, outside the realms of fairy tales, young infatuation is all too often undone by the unanticipated complication."
Panel 2:
Young Llewellyn sneezes, incinerating the flowers he's holding with dragon fire.
Panel 3:
Llewellyn: "Hay fever, in my case."
Young Llewellyn offers the bundle of smoldering flowers to an unimpressed unicorn.
Panel 4:
Ozy: "I imagine other dads tell stories about college football."
Llewellyn: "So never bring a girl charred black stalks. It's a very embarrassing faux pas."

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Apr 9

On Unicorn Day, let's remember Llewellyn's childhood crush. Or at least his story about a childhood crush; the reality of his stories is always in question. ozyandmillie.org/2000/05-25/i...

A four-panel comic.
Panel 1:
Ozy (a fox, sitting on a couch with present-day Llewellyn, a dragon who is is father): "Anyway, my friend has a crush on someone unattainable."
Llewellyn: "Reminiscent, actually, of an early love of my own."
Panel 2:
Young Llewellyn is on a street corner, shining shoes for 5 cents.
Llewellyn (narrating): "In a time and space across the decades and the Atlantic, I gazed at her from the street corners of my youth."
Panel 3:
Young Lllewellyn is gazing at a unicorn holding a parasol.
Llewellyn: "She was a daughter of nobility. In a class-conscious age, I feared she was destined to marry an uninteresting upper-class sort."
Panel 4:
Young Llewellyn has shined his scales with shoe shine.
Llewellyn: "Not that I wasn't going to make an effort.

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Apr 9

Iambic Pentameter Slam: ozyandmillie.org/2006/02-16/i...

A four panel comic. Ozy and Millie (two fox children) are insulting each other in iambic pentameter.
Panel 1:
Ozy: "Your very presence gives me indigestion."
Millie: "Your insults make me bored enough to nap."
Panel 2:
Ozy: "Your nasal hair's abundent like a thicket."
Millie: "You eat your boogers on a frequent basis."
Panel 3:
Ozy: "Your cranium's unoccupied, and echoes."
Millie: "You smell like cheese that's gone off in the fridge."
Panel 4:
Ozy: "Iambic pentameter slam."
Millie: "Penslammeter."

Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄@danasimpson· Apr 7

First name or last name? ozyandmillie.org/2002/04-08/i... The originals of this and many other classic Ozy and Millie strips are available for purchase! ozyandmillie.org/originals.html