Line #9 Creator/DanaSimpson


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2	Dana Claire Simpson (formerly D.C. Simpson) is the creator of the web comics ''WebComic/OzyAndMillie'', ''WebComic/RaineDog'', and ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'' (formerly ''Heavenly Nostrils''), among others. ''Ozy and Millie'' was the most noteworthy of her early creations, having been given semi-mainstream attention as a long-running web comic and published in book form by indie publisher Plan 9.
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4	She dabbled in political comics with ''I Drew This!'', which espoused her liberal political views. She attempted political allegory in 2009 with ''WebComic/RaineDog'', a comic deconstructing the relationship between anthropomorphic animals and humans. Abandoned and later rebooted, negative fan response and time pressure from other projects eventually caused it to become an OrphanedSeries.
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6	In 2009, she won Amazon.com's "Comic Strip Superstar" contest with ''Girl'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a comic about a young girl]]. This was a somewhat underdeveloped concept created specifically for the contest, which recycled some material from ''Ozy and Millie''. The comic went through [[DevelopmentHell a prolonged development process]] before being retooled into ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn''. It is currently syndicated by Andrews [=McMeel=] Universal on Go Comics, with a second book released at the end of May 2015 and newspaper release at the end of March 2015.
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8	!!Tropes which appear in her works:
9	* AuthorAppeal: Characters with glasses show up a lot in her work, no doubt due to Dana being a glasses wearer herself.
10	** She also really likes drawing dragons, as shown with both [[WebComic/OzyAndMillie Llewellyn]] and [[ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn Todd the Candy Dragon]].
11	* AuthorTract: She tended to veer into left-wing politics in regards to her OrphanedSeries ''WebComic/RaineDog'', with {{Anvilicious}} soapboxing about "Blue State" Democrats and gender identity, coupled with the UnfortunateImplications of the various intended metaphors. Previously, ''I Drew This!'' was pretty openly a political comic, but even her ''least'' political comic, ''WebComic/OzyAndMillie'', still had political commentary, usually with geoglobal politics boiled down to playground puppets, and famously [[GenkiGirl Millie's]] [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Mr. W sockpuppet]].
12	** More recently, she's used ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'' to address nihilism. [[http://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2016/05/12 Marigold gives a statement that's convincing enough that Phoebe's completely okay with nihilism as long as sparkles are involved.]]
13	* CareerResurrection: A minor example, but due to AuthorTract nature on some of her later works, especially ''Webcomic/RaineDog'', she was a subject to massive criticism. Thankfully, she managed to recover from it when ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'' became a hit.
14	* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal
15	* PaintingTheMedium: Both ''WebComic/OzyAndMillie'' and ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'' have characters that use different fonts in their word balloons, to suggest different accents or manners of speaking.
16	* ScheduleSlip: ''WebComic/OzyAndMillie'' had an erratic update schedule toward the end; ''Webcomic/RaineDog'' repeatedly went on hiatus, was restarted, then abandoned; ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'' launched months later than originally expected.
17	* [[HeAlsoDid She Also Did]]: She's also a musician, and has a [[https://www.youtube.com/user/DCSimpsonShiver/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd bunch of songs]] uploaded onto [=YouTube=].
18	* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: Both ''WebComic/OzyAndMillie'' and ''Webcomic/RaineDog'', although the latter also contains humans (and might have been intended as a {{Deconstruction}} of the LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy trope).

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