Razzle Dazzle Unicorn: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure
Razzle Dazzle inicorn Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure Dana Simpson Andrews McMeel Publishing a division of Andrews McMeel Universal
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INTRODUCTION Sometimes a unicorn shows up in your life and makes everything better I wasn’t really expecting one A few years ago I had nearly realized an ambition I’ve had since age twelve I had scored a contract to develop a comic strip for newspaper syndication I won that contract in the Comic Strip Superstar contest which was sort of an American Idol for aspiring comic strip artists without the surrounding glamour I won with a comic strip called Girl which starred a little girl who would eventually acquire the name Phoebe Howell She ran around in the woods behind her house and hung out with talking animals I thought I’d just draw a bunch of Girl strips and that would be that and I’d be syndicated and happy forever What happened instead was I sent my required thirty strips in every month and I got back a lot of notes explaining to me why the work I was doing wasn’t good enough to launch in syndication My editor at the time John Glynn was blunt The work you’re doing is better than some currently syndicated strips he told me but in a market this tight your work needs to be transcendent I was as far as I could tell doing my best If it wasn’t transcendent already I didn’t have the faintest idea how to make it transcendent I wasn’t even sure what I was being asked to do A year of my two-year development contract had passed Despair began to set in And that’s when the unicorn made her appearance
