A deluxe bind-up featuring all the comics from two different Phoebe and Her Unicorn Unicorns vs. Goblins and Razzle Dazzle Unicorn.In these spellbinding adventures, nine-year-old Phoebe Howell and her unicorn best friend, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, explore the possibilities of friendship, summer camp, the holidays, and even founding their own detective agency. These entertaining, visually dazzling stories are a wonderful reminder to young readers that being weird is much more fun than being normal.
Dana Claire Simpson grew up in Gig Harbor, Washington, drawing the entire time. She eventually graduated from The Evergreen State College, despite having spent all her time drawing, and not always for credit.
Attempts at doing real work along the way are hardly worth mentioning; the relevant fact is that, from 1998 to 2008, she drew the internet comic strip Ozy and Millie. After winning the Amazon-sponsored Comic Strip Superstar Contest in 2009, Universal Uclick signed her to a development deal for Heavenly Nostrils.
She currently lives in the Seattle area with her tech genius husband and her fairly stupid cat.
With this, I've read #3, #4, #5, and #6 -- enough to say that Phoebe and Her Unicorn is the best strip I have seen since Calvin and Hobbes. Dana Simpson has that same magical insight into the absurdity of being a grown-up that Bill Watterson displayed, along with such a healthy dose of humanity as to make Porky Pine smile.
I went into this book with low expectations simply because it fit a criteria for a book I needed to read for class and I found it to be the only graphic novel with over 250 pages in my house. Once I began reading, I grew attached to the characters and became very interested in the story and how the book is formatted. I would recommend this book to people looking for something childish and a book with no pressure to keep up with.