More memoir character stuff. His estate can’t sue me if I don’t use his name, right? I’m sure my publisher’s lawyers will tell me.

Been finishing the memoir. Here’s some character model stuff. Me, at 6, 12, and 18.

Artists and writers, quote with your queer characters! Not an exhaustive list, but here’s Milo. 🏳️‍⚧️

Omg it's book release day! If you are following my account, you like quirky fiction with what authors politely call a strong narrative voice. Odds are you're into female protagonists having a morally ambiguous good time. You DEFINITELY need a comfort read right now. This. This is what you need.

We are thrilled that Cat Ninja and Phoebe and Her Unicorn were included in this Graphic Novel Recommendations for Kids Review by Travis Jonker and @nytimes.com! @danacorn.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

Less than three weeks until the new book, "Galactic Unicorn," is released! You can wait until then, or pre-order it now. Either way, you'll find out what happens when a robot unicorn decides she needs a robot Phoebe. bookshop.org/p/books/gala...

“Let’s go exploring...”—to the newest "Calvin and Hobbes" exhibition! 🐯🧡 #CalvinandHobbes40

Never listen to anyone who talks like if you haven’t lit the world on fire by 30, or even 40, it’s just too late for you. If you’re breathing it’s never too late, and figuring yourself out is an ongoing journey.

So @animatronikki.bsky.social, who I recently saw Cyndi Lauper with, wanted to join the skunk party. So, here’s Claire and Erica, partying 80s style.

Nothin’ much, just our fox kids

Phoebe G. Howell Kind of a style experiment.

I keep a list of comic ideas on my phone. Good, bad, silly, whatever. Before phones I wrote them in my notebook. It’s how you get through the periods when you want to write but don’t have anything. Well, yes you do. Past you did that for you.

Felicia, adolescent version.

Makin’ unicorns, same as ever. Book 22 is out next month. I still do Sunday comics, though I retired the daily strip in March. I’m working on finally finishing my memoir, and then I have a tween-superhero book my sister and I are working on, and the next unicorn graphic novel which is about ghosts.

Today we celebrate the Marigold.

How am I supposed to work with this happening on my tablet

The Outsider Comics Moving Sale starts noow! Basically everything that's hard to move is on sale and the heavier they are the more sale they're on, from 10% to 50% off! Please come help us not move things and also get us money so we can pay local artisans and contractors to help us with the move!

Art indeed! Adorable!

Did you know "Phoebe and Her Unicorn" wasn't my first comic strip? From 1998 to 2008 I did a web comic called "Ozy and Millie." You can find the archives here: ozyandmillie.org

The cover remakes continue. This is the first time I’ve actually redrawn the characters, instead of just minor-ish edits. I just plain didn’t like the pose and thought I could do better. (Before, they looked like they were walking away from each other a bit, instead of straight toward the camera)

I too wished to draw myself as a skunk cartoonist!

I hadn’t drawn Claire in a while. So I started drawing some. I’ve tried experimenting with the style I draw her in, but I always come back to “pretty cartoony.” She’s just an inherently toony character.

I played a bunch of Dig Dug at the arcade last night, and it reminded me that I drew this in 2012. At the time, “Heavebly Nostrils” (later renamed) was brand new and not a big thing yet, and when the Dig Dug folks approached me about doing a comic for an anniversary thing I was like “woohoo!”

Practicing guitar on the couch selfie

Reminder that book 22 (!) will be out October 7, is called “Galactic Unicorn,” contains some of my favorite comics I’ve made, and is already available for preorder. bookshop.org/p/books/gala...

"🎶 Isn't she lovely? 🎶" –Marigold, to herself Phoebe and Her Unicorn

I commissioned @findingdeefish.bsky.social to draw Ozy and Milo, and dragon dad and fox mom, and little sister Emmy. I wanted to see how she’d draw them! Turns out: INCREDIBLY!

I didn’t win a Reuben. But I had a really astonishingly good time, and in a weird way I feel like I’ve already won. I have stories I wanna tell. I’ll probably get to it later today! For now, just randomly have this photo of me and Orv with the great Tauhid Bondia (is he not on Bluesky?)

Drawn on the plane: preview of @eigenvogel.bsky.social and me at the Reuben Awards in a couple days. I might win, I might not, but I will be hot.

It’s amazing where Calvin’s imagination can take him—especially from his desk in Ms. Wormwood’s classroom. #CalvinandHobbes40 Here’s just one of many classic Calvin daydream moments: bit.ly/45I32ks

Style experiment, with simple thick lines. Avery, Ozy, Milo, Felicia.

In 1999, I was an unknown web cartoonist with like 100 readers. And yet, during the April Fools comic swap we all used to do, the great @billholbrook.bsky.social asked to swap comics with me! I was pretty blown away! I still have Bill’s “Ozy and Millie” strip hanging in my office.

Felicia Laine, and Avery Raccoon (I’m pretty sure I never gave him a last name, feel free to correct me and accuse me of senility)

Worked on this some more. I feel like I’ve updated Avery’s face design more or less to my satisfaction now. Avery was a pretty one-dimensional character in the beginning but deepened and evolved as secondary characters often do. I think he could be interesting, in future stories.

O&M head constructions. I feel like I’m kinda gravitating to smaller, rounder eyes on my creations.

Snoopy's autobiography hits stores this week, just in time for his birthday (August 10)! Please pick it up at your local bookstore, but if you want a signed copy, we'll have them available at the Cartoon Art Museum soon! www.cartoonart.org/store

Marian polished off Vol. 1 of @danacorn.bsky.social's PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN, then immediately started downloading the digital volumes she could find for her kindle. 😄

The gang, middle school. I imagine the four of them as a clique. There’s a fifth character I want to add, but here’s the basic four.

Llewellyn! I’m in a phase of kind of experimenting with characters’ designs, and I hadn’t drawn Llewellyn in a while. I’ve messed with his head design a bit and I’d love feedback. But of course the big thing here is wings vs. no wings. Let me explain…

Kids make the best fans. I wanna grow up to be like them.

I was a little behind on fan mail, so I’ve spent the last few hours getting caught up. My fans are just the best. They just send me drawings and love, because I drew something that made them happy. It’s just an extraordinary privilege. It’s always kind of overwhelming.

@danasimpson.com ‪reminds us that we’re all cool enough to be friends with a unicorn! 🦄🌈📚 If you want to help WNDB send magic stories (like Dana’s!) to trans and nonbinary youth across the country, support our new bookish care package initiative: 🏳️‍⚧️ bit.ly/MagicCarePackages

Looking to see who’s here on BlueSky? We’ve complied a list of cartoonists, publications and organizations to help you find people to follow. www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

More book cover redos, for a new boxed set. (They tell me those are big right now.) Here’s Unicorn Bowling, The Unicorn Whisperer, Camping With Unicorns, and Virtual Unicorn Experience.