Cartoonist Profile: Dana Simpson

D. D. Degg Published: September 1, 2025 Updated: September 1, 2025 1 minute 3 comments

Dana Simpson, earlier in life known as David Craig Simpson or D.C. Simpson, is a comic creator from the first generation of American webcomics, whose imaginative creations have also gained more mainstream success. Her breakthrough comic was the funny animal strip ‘Ozy and Millie’ (1998-2008). Its satire of teenage life and eccentric characters helped it grow a cult following. Simpson showed a more political side of herself with ‘I Drew This’ (2004-2009), a commentary on U.S. politics under the George W. Bush administration. Her best-known and most popular series is ‘Phoebe and Her Unicorn’ (2012- ), a children’s gag comic about the friendship between a young girl and her magic unicorn. Running as a webcomic and since 2015 also as a traditional newspaper comic, their funny and sometimes strange endeavors have been translated into several languages.

Comiclopedia has posted a detailed biography of Phoebe and Her Unicorn cartoonist Dana Simpson.

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K. White

I always loved Ozy & Millie <3

Jason T.

I’m wondering why Lambiek felt it was necessary to dead-name her — in the very first line, no less. But the whole entry seems to be written in a kind of creepy, voyeuristic way.

S perry

It’s not really dead-naming. Those are the pseudonyms she used for other, still available works. The names are not dead to her. For example, Andre Norton, Andrew North, and Allen Weston are all pseudonyms of Alice Mary Norton, the legendary author of many-times-many science fiction, fantasy, and historical, and contemporary fiction books. I sincerely doubt she’d have been the least annoyed with someone using one of her pseudonyms. I also doubt Ms. Simpson would be in the least bit bothered.

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Cartoonist Profile: Dana Simpson

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