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.'"

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

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

A close-up of the unicorn Marigold

Marigold magically makes hearts and sparkles appear in trans pride colors

In this drawing, Phoebe is seen wearing a unicorn horn on the top of her head, while Marigold dresses up like her best human friend in return

Phoebe and Marigold sharing a hug

From yours truly, a fan of Phoebe and Her Unicorn, a series of past drawings I'll reposting here for #NationalUnicornDay 🦄

Ozy: dad, what would you say is the greatest thing you’ve ever experienced? Llewellyn: oh, that’s easy. There was this waffle I had once in Belgium. It defies description. Ozy: aren’t you bound by parent law to say “raising you, my dear boy?” Llewellyn: “oh, but you didn’t TASTE this waffle.”

#repostyourart

12. Yummy

One of my favorite Ozy and Millies.

A bunch of kids making funny faces while holding on to the Cartoon Art Museum logo

Are you ready for the summer? Are you ready for the good times? In our Cartooning Camps, creators ages 10–15 take part in instructor-led workshops focused on developing drawing and storytelling skills. Full- and half-day sessions available. Info on these and other programs at cartoonart.org/calendar

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!"

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

A girl and a unicorn, making stupid faces at the camera.

I added Marigold to this. (She doesn’t like to be left out of things.)

Have I mentioned that Millie/Milo is a self portrait?

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.)

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...

Model sheet of a gray cartoon fox boy.

I did this recently. Ozy model sheet!

This is how zoomer nostalgia sounds to me now.

“Remember the far off days of four years ago? We were so young and different then…”

Teacher kangaroo: summer vacation is longer than it should be. You always spend the first month or two teaching the kids things you know for a fact they used to know. Fox child: how intriguing! Show me the ways of this penn-sill!

#repostyourart

10. Pencil

Ozy and Millie comic for September 5, 2005.

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."

Pining for lost youth: ozyandmillie.org/2000/04-11/i...

Books! Originals! Digital archives! Find it all at ozyandmillie.org.

Obviously Marigold insisted on having a turn.

A girl and a unicorn shouting HAPPY NATIONAL UNICORN DAY!

So as we understand it, it’s #nationalunicornday

"Projection Edge" is about four souls who discover a wondrous cosmic plane beyond the world they know -- as well as dangers to the world they DO know!

Read it at: www.projectionedge.com or projectionedge.thecomicseries.com!

Or binge-read it all at comicfury.com/read/project...!

Reading webcomics in print is very sexy, and I happen to have a ton of books in print!

You should take a look at what I have to offer here!

I released four new books this past few month on Lulu, which you can see here.

The originals for these two strips, along with many others, are for sale on ozyandmillie.org! You'll also find links to book collections, and an online index of the entire run of the strip.

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."

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

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. 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."

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

Various black and white drawings of Phoebe, a cartoon little girl.

Phoebe G. Howell

Phoebe, a cartoon child, making a face and sticking her tongue out

BLEAH

An animation cel featuring Bart, Lisa, Maggie, and Marge Simpson wearing Krusty the Clown makeup and holding cards for Krusty's Clown College

It's Pay What You Wish Day! Set your own admission price then enjoy the galleries, delve into the voluminous McLachlan Reading Room, and family-friendly activities until 5pm.
#PayWhatYouWish #cartoonart #artmuseum #animation #comics #originalart

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...'"

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

I'm honestly not sure when the Lulu edition became available in hardcover. It did used to be paperback, though, you're right about that.

Want this stuff in non-electronic form? Check out these book collections:
ozyandmillie.org/index.html#b...

Want a one-of-a-kind, pen-and-ink original to hang on your wall? Here's a list of strips that are still available:
ozyandmillie.org/1998/forsale...

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."

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...

I love it when people tell me they got my books at the library.

I almost lived at the library as an adolescent. My love of comics was nurtured by the comics and humor section there for years. I love the idea that I’m part of that for kids now.

A kid and a unicorn in a meadow, with mountains in the background.

#repostyourart

5. Mountain

Weirdly for someone who grew up in a place with mountains, I don’t seem to have drawn them a lot?

This Phoebe and Her Unicorn Sunday at least has mountains in it (this is the version without the dialogue)