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Official account for the artist behind "Phoebe and Her Unicorn" and "Ozy and Millie" — watch this space for information and announcements. Personal account is @danacorn.bsky.social.

A four-panel comic strip featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie. They're sitting on the floor, coloring on paper with crayons. Panel 1: Millie: "Hmm...'Raw Sienna' or 'Burnt Umber.'" Panel 2: Millie (after nibbling the crayons): "Oh, 'Burnt Umber,' definitely." Panel 3: *Ozy looks at her* Panel 4: Millie: "I've always prided myself on my refined artistic taste."
A four-panel comic strip, featuring Millie (a fox child) and Mililani (her mom.) They're sitting outside watching fireworks. Panel 1: Mililani: "Mm...fabulous fireworks display, this year." Millie: "Yeah, I guess so." Panel 2: Mililani: "What's the matter?" Millie: "I'm still being righteously indignant. Panel 2: Mililani: "You're really upset about something." Millie: "I guess." Mililani: "Well, you've gone the entire 4th of July without blowing anything up." Millie: "Well, nothing YOU found out ab-- Um, hey, look at that!"
A four panel comic, featuring Millie (a fox child) and Felicia (a sheep child). Panel 1: Felicia: "So, like, I want you to help me find some COOL new artists to listen to." Panel 2: Millie: "Felicia, the music I listen to MEANS something to me. Why should I share it with someone like you?" Panel 3: Felicia: "'Cause I'm a nice person!" Panel 4: Millie: "No you're not." Felicia: "Am so! How could- Oh, you mean to YOU."
A four-panel comic featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie. Panel 1: Millie: "Ozy, do you think plants feel pain?" Panel 2: Ozy: "I'm kind of inclined to think no, not as we understand pain." Panel 3: Millie (looking thoughtful): "Hm." Panel 4: Millie: "So I wasted my whole morning torturing that cabbage." Ozy: "It wasn't a waste. You learned something."
A four-panel comic featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie. Panel 1: Millie is sitting at a booth with a sign that says "ALL EVIL ERADICATED: $1" Panel 2: Ozy walks up. "How's business?" Millie: "Pretty bad." Panel 3: Millie: "For SOME reason nobody seems to trust me to eradicate evil!" Panel 4: Ozy: "I think it's because of what you put in the Johnsons' mailbox this morning." Millie: "I haven't done it SINCE! I bet that's more evil than YOU'VE eradicated today."
A four panel comic featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie. Panel 1: Millie: "I've decided to eliminate quotations from my conversation." Panel 2: Millie: "If someone else famously said it, I won't! From now on I want my ideas to be meaningful and memorable in their own right." Panel 3: Ozy: "Hm, how far are you willing to go in pursuit of total linguistic originality?" Panel 4: Millie: "Florb." Ozy: "I guess at this point originality IS kind of slim pickings."
A five-panel, color, Sunday-style comic strip. Ozy and Millie (two fox children) are standing on a hill, looking out at a suburban vista below, as night slowly falls. Panel 1: Millie: "Sometimes, when I stand someplace high up like this..." Panel 2: Millie: "I try to imagine what all of this USED to look like, before all the buildings, before all the lights." Panel 3: Millie: "I try to imagine what the world looked like before civilization transformed it." Panel 4: (silent beat panel) Panel 5: Millie: "Dark, I figure." Ozy: "Civilization: A bigger version of your 'Sponge Bob' night light."
A four panel comic featuring fox children Ozy and Millie, and Ozy's dad, Llewellyn, a dragon. Panel 1: Ozy: "Dad, do we have any dice?" Llewellyn: "Hm. You should probably check..." Panel 2: Llewellyn (lightning crackling in the background): "The junk drawer." Panel 3: Millie: "Wow. Your dad can make ANYTHING sound scary and exciting." Panel 4: Ozy: "You get used to it after a while." Llewellyn (off-screen, lightning crackling again): "Oops, I got guacamole on my apron."
A three panel comic strip featuring Millie (a fox child) and her mom, Millilani. Panel 1: Mililani, holding a boombox: "Millie, clean your room." Boombox: Bum bum ba dummm Panel 2: Boombox: Bum ba dum bum ba dummmm Panel 3: Millie, heading upstairs: "You know he means business when she plays the Darth Vader theme music while she tells you."
NASA image of the Trifid Nebula, with a pillar that looks suspiciously like a unicorn horn on the left side.
A four panel comic, featuring Jeremy (a rabbit bully) and Ozy (a small fox child.) Panel 1: Jeremy: "hey look, it's GAY BOY. how's it going, GAY BOY?" Ozy: "Gay boy?" Panel 2: Ozy: "Hm, I don't THINK I'm gay. Then again I don't want to deny it TOO vociferously because I wouldn't want to send the impression I consider it an insult..." Panel 3: Ozy: "and then there's the fact that I'm ten years old, so the whole IDEA is pretty meaningless." Panel 4: Jeremy: "that's, like, the gayest possible response." Ozy: "Well, I could have kissed you, but that strikes me as really unappealing."
A four panel comic, featuring Ozy (a fox child wearing a top hat) and Llewellyn (his father, a dragon.) Panel 1: Ozy: "Dad, what would you say is the greatest thing you've ever experienced?" Llewellyn: "Oh, that's easy." Panel 2: Llewellyn: "There was this waffle I had once in Belgium. It defies description." Panel 3: (Ozy looks meaningfully at the reader.) Panel 4: Ozy: "Aren't you bound by parent law to say 'Raising YOU, my dear boy'?" Llewellyn: "Oh, but you didn't *taste* this waffle."
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: Avery (a raccoon, holding a piece of paper): "Ack! Will you look at THIS?!" Panel 2: Ozy (a fox, reading over his shoulder): "You may already be a winner." Avery: "Don't you see what that IMPLIES?" Panel 3: Avery: "It follows that I may just as easily be a LOSER! What is this, COOLNESS PRETERMINISM?! There may be NOTHING I can DO!!" Panel 4: Ozy (addressing the reader): "Avery's mind is just sharp enough for him to impale himself on it."
A four-panel strip featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie. They're lying on the floor, coloring with markers. Panel 1: Millie: "Darn it... I HATE it when I'm drawing and I discover the one marker I really NEED is all dried up." Panel 2: Millie: "Now I'm going to have to scour the entire house for some substitute substance that's EXACTLY the same shade of blue, then swipe it while mom's not paying attention!" Panel 3: Ozy: "Wouldn't it be easier if you just borrowed MY blue marker?" Panel 4: Millie: "Ozy, in some ways you and I are very different people." Ozy: "...yeah, I dunno what I was thinking."
A four panel coffee strip: Panel 1: Milliani, a vixen, holding a coffee cup: "Your ancestors invented coffee?" Llewellyn, a dragon: "Not invented, exactly." Panel 2: Llewellyn: "But they were responsible for introducing coffee beans to the West, in the 17th century." Panel 3: Llewellyn: "At the time, my great uncle Jack van Llewellyn was considered a bit of a simpleton." Panel 4: Unnamed fox in a turban: "How about you sell me that cow for these five magic beans?" Jack van Llewellyn: "Okay!" Unnamed cow: "...hey!"
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.'"
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."
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!"
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.)
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."
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."
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.
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."
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...'"
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."
A three-panel comic featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie. They're chatting as they walk. Panel 1: Millie: "Do you and your dad celebrate Easter?" Ozy: "After a fashion." Panel 2: Ozy: "Dad's not into hiding dyed eggs. He thinks he's come up with something to hide that's a little more appropriate to the holiday." Panel 3: They come to a giant stone Easter Island Moai head. Millie: "Not much of a search, is it?" Ozy: "Not most years."
A four-panel comic strip featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie. They're walking in the woods and chatting. Panel 1: Millie: "They say living well is the best revenge." Panel 2: Ozy: "Do you think that's true?" Millie: "I don't know." Panel 3: Millie: "It does really make me grit my teeth when people I hate seem to be having fun." Panel 4: Ozy: "Maybe it's true then." Millie: "On the other hand, I like it even less when people I hate club me with things."
Graphic depicting the 2025 Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year nominees (the Reuben Award). Nominees are Dave Blazek, Tauhid Bondia, Will Henry, Dav Pilkey, Dana Simpson, Mark Tatulli, and Raina Telgemeier.
A four panel Ozy and Millie comic, guest-drawn by Bill Holbrook. It features Ozy (a fox kid wearing a top hat) and Millie (a fox kid wearing overalls.) It begins with them playing checkers on the floor. Panel 1: Millie: "Um...hold on a sec." Panel 2: (Millie scratches herself with her foot.) Panel 3: Millie: "Hey, Ozy. How come you're never bothered by annoying parasites?" Panel 4: Ozy: "Hatband's actually a flea collar." Millie: "I figured you didn't wear it for the looks!"
A four panel comic featuring Ozy and Millie (two fox children) and their teacher (a kangaroo). Panel 1: Teacher (holding an envelope): "Anyhow, I have a present for you all." Panel 2: Teacher: "You may not remember, but back in the first grade, you wrote letters to your future selves." Panel 3: Teacher: "I bestow upon you now, in alphabetical order, the wisdom of the past." Panel 4: Ozy (smiling): "Aw, look, I spelled 'enlightenment' with an 8." Millie (concerned): "My letter is actually pretty threatening."
A four panel comic strip featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie. Panel 1: Millie: "Anyway, I could care less about that." Ozy: "By that, do you mean you potentially COULD care less than you do now?" Panel 2: Millie: "No, it means the same thing as saying I COULDN'T care less." Ozy: "How can those mean the same thing? They're opposites." Panel 3: Ozy: "If you could potentially care less, you must care some. If you don't, but you could still care LESS than you do now, it would mean you could somehow care a NEGATIVE amount." Panel 4: Millie: "Now I don't even care about THAT." Ozy: "I've forgotten now what it is you don't care about."
A four panel strip with two fox children, Ozy and Millie, sitting under a tree and talking. Panel 1: Millie: "I like the idea of reincarnation." Panel 2: Ozy: "How come?" Millie: "Well, I understand that if you're REALLY GOOD, you wind up coming back as a cow." Panel 3: Millie: "Think about that! It's important to strike EXACTLY the right balance -- you want to be good, but not so good you wind up big, stupid, and rectangular." Panel 4: Ozy: "I think you might have missed the point." Millie: "Instant karma's gonna GET you, Ozy."
A three panel comic strip featuring Millie, a fox child, and her mom. Panel 1: Millie walks in wearing pajamas. Her mom is drinking coffee. Panel 2: Millie (singing loudly, startling her mom): "EEEXIT LIGHT!! EENTER NIGHT!! TAAAKE MY HAND..." Panel 3: Millie (on the doorstep with her school bag, looking annoyed): "Well, at least SOMEBODY around here is walking up with a song in her heart!"
A four panel comic, featuring Jeremy's dad (a rabbit), Llewellyn (a dragon, Ozy's father) and Ozy (a fox child): Panel 1: Jeremy's dad: "Are you sayin' there's something WRONG with Jeremy?" Llewellyn: "I'm just concerned for my own son's welfare." Panel 2: Jeremy's dad: "Listen, nobody tells me how to raise my kid. You wanna step outside?" Llewellyn: "I believe I'll pass and take my leave of you. Good day, sir." Panel 3: Jeremy's dad: "Come on, what's the matter? Not MAN enough?" Llewellyn: "I think we're both old enough to be above such childish behavior." Panel 4 (later, at home): Ozy: "So then you breathed a fireball and ignited his Porsche." Llewellyn: "Well, not deliberately. He had on an entire bottle of cologne, and it caused me to sneeze."
A four-panel comic strip starring two fox kids, Ozy and Millie. It starts with them sitting together on the grass. Panel 1: Millie: "You know, I love everyone in the abstract. Collectively, I want them to be happy and I wish them all the best." Panel 2: Millie: "But individually, people have a way of making me want to hit them in the groin with a sock full of change. How can I reconcile that?" Panel 3: Ozy: Well, they say one way to deal with a problem is to give yourself some distance from it." Panel 4: Ozy (walking away): "I, for instance, am going to go stand way over here." Millie (rolling her eyes): "I don't own any socks, Ozy. I was just being colorful."
A three panel comic strip featuring two fox children, Ozy and Millie. Millie is reading a newspaper. Panel 1: Millie: "This morning I was pouring Jell-O powder into my mom's coffee to see if it would solidify, when I realized -- I've DONE THAT before!" Panel 2: Millie: "I'm ten years old and I'm REPEATING myself. What a depressing thought! I had to do SOMETHING to comfort myself." Panel 3: Ozy: "So you're reading comic strips?" Millie: "I'll NEVER be able to repeat myself as much as THESE people."
A four-panel comic strip featuring Millie and Ozy (two fox children) and Llewellyn (a dragon): Panel 1: Millie: "Okay, so I'm not that great at mad science. At least I have a really teriffic evil cackle!" Panel 2: Llewellyn: "Hahahahahahahaaaaaa!" (lightning flashes in the background) Panel 3: Llewellyn: "You mean of that sort, Millicent?" (Ozy looks startled, with his fur all frizzed.) Panel 4: Millie: "Teach me! Teach me to chill people's blood!" Ozy: "I'm going to brush my fur back down and then hide under the bed."
A four-panel comic strip feature Ozy and Millie, two fox kids, as well as Millie's mom (also a fox). Panel 1: Millie: "Dun dun-dun daaaah! It's...PREVIOUS GIRL!" Panel 2: Ozy: "Previous girl?" Millie: "My new superhero identity. I have the amazing ability to anticipate disaster!" Panel 3: Millie: "Whenever trouble strikes, I was in the vicinity JUST PREVIOUSLY! It's a mysterious and uncanny power." Panel 4: Millie's mom: "Millie, I JUST saw you in the living room, and now the lamp in there is broken." Millie: "Now I'll use my powers of hiding-until-it-all-blows-over."
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: Ozy and Millie (two foxes) approach Avery (a raccoon). Avery: "Hi guys!" Millie: "Hey Avery, listen..." Panel 2: Millie: "How would you feel about becoming a goth?" Panel 3: Avery: "I'd feel REALLY HAPPY about it!" Panel 4: Millie (looking disappointed): "Oh." Avery: "Right, that's why I've never felt qualified to do it."
A four-panel comic strip featuring Llewellyn (a dragon) and Ozy (a fox child wearing a top hat.) Panel one: Llewellyn: "Of course, spring's arrival is not without its little inconveniences. Take daylight saving time." Panel two: Llewellyn: "People think it was created for farmers, but of course that's wrong. It's a remnant of an old dragon conspiracy." Panel three: Llewellyn: "The plan was to deprive mammals of an hour of sleep, then use their dental floss while they were too tired to notice." Panel four: Ozy: "That seems kind of unambitious for you guys." Llewellyn: "Well, we were out of floss."
A four-panel comic strip featuring Millie and her Mom, two foxes. First panel: Millie: (in bed) "MAHHHHHHHM!" Second panel: Mom: "What is it, honey? Millie: "I had a really really bad dream!" Third panel: Millie: "I dreamed I had to come up with something funny to say EVERY DAY!!" Fourth panel: Mom: "That's a nightmare?" Millie: "Well, partly I just like to complain."
A comic strip, featuring Millie (a fox wearing overalls) and Ozy (a fox in a tophat). 1st panel: Millie: (hands Ozy a spring) "Here, Ozy." Ozy: "Oh thanks." (reaches for it) 2nd panel: Millie: (yanks spring away) "Yoink!" 3rd panel: Ozy: "What the heck was THAT?" 4th panel: Millie: "You just witnessed the first robbin' of spring." Ozy: "You have entirely too much free time."