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jmowreader

(50,561 posts)
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 12:20 AM Aug 2017

If you're not reading "Phoebe and her Unicorn," you really need to start

Start here: http://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2017/07/19

My paper has been running this pretty much since it began, and it's an absolute delight. Artist Dana Simpson chronicles the adventures of Phoebe, a little girl who lives in the Pacific Northwest with her parents, an aging hippie father who works in IT and an artist mother. In the first week of strips, Phoebe accidentally hit a unicorn in the head with a rock. The unicorn, whose name is Marigold, grants Phoebe one wish. Phoebe wished for Marigold to be "her new best friend." Now Marigold is the straight man...well, straight unicorn...of the strip.

Some things I think you'll like...

* It is very well-drawn. There are features fifty years old that don't have the quality of draftsmanship Ms. Simpson displays.
* It's funny.
* The artist challenges you. A couple weeks ago, she ran a "camping trip" story arc in which we meet her best friend Max's parents. Max has lesbian parents.
* The dad isn't an idiot or an obnoxious oaf like almost all comic strip fathers are.
...oh, and Dana Simpson is transgendered.

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If you're not reading "Phoebe and her Unicorn," you really need to start (Original Post) jmowreader Aug 2017 OP
I glance at it from time to time, but when it first started in our paper... Binkie The Clown Aug 2017 #1

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
1. I glance at it from time to time, but when it first started in our paper...
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 12:44 AM
Aug 2017

... I found it utterly incomprehensible, and I still do. I just makes no sense to me. I think that it might amuse a 7 year old, but I don't get anything at all from it.

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