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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 14/09/2026

We get to see the boat-tailed grackle hat in the following strip.

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 14/09/2026

The art of diversion: ozyandmillie.org/2004/09-15/i...

A three panel comic, featuring Llewellyn (a dragon) and Ozy (a fox, and Llewellyn's adopted son.)

Panel 1:
Llewellyn, peering into the mirror: "Press conferences, son, are all about the art of diversion."

Panel 2:
Llewellyn: "Whether one is planning on complete honesty, or on concealing the truth entirely, one always wants the public's focus somewhere else."

Panel 3:
Ozy, holding out a chicken hat: "So the chicken hat?"
Llewellyn: "Hm...no, they'll be *expecting* that this time. Let's go with the boat-tailed crackle hat this time."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 11/09/2026

Why isn't school fun for the smart kids? ozyandmillie.org/2005/09-09/i...

A four panel comic strip starring two fox kids, Ozy and Millie. In the first panel Millie walks in to find Ozy has been stuffed in a trash can; only his tail is visible.

Panel 1:
Millie: "So, first trash can dumping of the new school year?"
Ozy: "Yeah."

Panel 2:
Millie: "Why isn't school more fun for us? WE'RE the smart kids, WE should be the ones enjoying ourselves!"

Panel 3:
Millie: "Why is it school's only fun for the kinds with NO interest in school's actual purpose? We don't mess THEIR stuff up for THEM!

Panel 4:
Ozy (sticking his head out of the trash can): "There WAS that time you tried to infiltrate cheerleader camp."
Millie: "They figured me out some time around 'rah rah rah, thpppththbt."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 07/09/2026

The next Phoebe and Her Unicorn book, Across Enchanted Lands, releases in one month! You can pre-order it in all the usual places; I recommend supporting your local bookstore.

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 09/08/2026

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.)

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 08/08/2026

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

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 07/08/2026

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

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 05/08/2026

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

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 20/07/2026

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."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 05/07/2026

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!"

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 01/07/2026

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."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 30/06/2026

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."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 28/06/2026

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.

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 31/05/2026

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."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 28/05/2026

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."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 19/05/2026

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."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 10/05/2026

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."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 04/05/2026

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."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 04/05/2026

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.

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 04/05/2026

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."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 01/05/2026

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."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 26/04/2026

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."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 21/04/2026

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."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 20/04/2026

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!"

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 16/04/2026

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.'"

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 14/04/2026

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."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 12/04/2026

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!"

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 11/04/2026

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.)

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 10/04/2026

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."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 09/04/2026

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."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 09/04/2026

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.

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 09/04/2026

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."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 07/04/2026

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

A four panel comic. Llewellyn, a dragon, is checking in for jury duty.
Panel 1:
Clerk: "Your name please?"
Llewellyn: "Llewellyn."
Panel 2:
Clerk: "Is that your first name or your last name, sir?"
Llewellyn (looking thoughtful): "Well, I can't say for certain that it was the very first name I was ever called in this life..."
Panel 3:
Llewellyn: "But it certainly isn't the last. I've been called a great many things, some of which are unrepeatable in a courthouse."
Panel 4:
Clerk: "Look, just TAKE this nametag..."
Llewellyn: "For example, when I was a hatchling, my mother used to call me 'smoochy pie...'"

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 06/04/2026

Like a child that knows poems. ozyandmillie.org/2007/04-18/i... This was the start of the "coffee conspiracy" storyline, which would eventually end with Millie quoting from her epic poem: ozyandmillie.org/2007/04-26/i...

A three panel comic featuring Miliani, a vixen; and Llewellyn, a dragon. They're having coffee together.
Panel 1:
Llewellyn (quoting): 'Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.'
Panel 2:
Llewellyn: "Rainer Maria Rilke said that."
Mililani: "MY child treated me to a reading of her new epic poem yesterday."
Panel 3:
Mililani: "It's called 'Death Butt From Space.'"
Llewellyn: "Truly like unto the fairest of seasons."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 05/04/2026

Easter traditions: ozyandmillie.org/2003/04-21/i... Want more? Check out ozyandmillie.org, or pick up one of these book collections: ozyandmillie.org/index.html#b...

A three-panel comic featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie. They're chatting as they walk.
Panel 1:
Millie: "Do you and your dad celebrate Easter?"
Ozy: "After a fashion."
Panel 2:
Ozy: "Dad's not into hiding dyed eggs. He thinks he's come up with something to hide that's a little more appropriate to the holiday."
Panel 3: They come to a giant stone Easter Island Moai head.
Millie: "Not much of a search, is it?"
Ozy: "Not most years."

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Dana Simpson 🖼️🖌️🦄 @danasimpson.com · 02/04/2026

I'm honored to once again be nominated for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year by the National Cartoonist's Society! The NCS is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, and I'm proud to be part of it.