OZY AND MILLIE Dana Simpson Andrews McMeel PUBLISHING
INTRODUCTION A lot of artists kind of wince when they look at their old work If you draw a lot you tend to improve a lot and one result is looking at things you drew in the past and seeing all the mistakes you wouldn't make now Because mistakes are how you learn Long before I ever imagined Phoebe or her unicorn Ozy and Millie was where I learned how to make comics I was nineteen years old when I decided I wanted to be a comic strip artist and plunged into it head first Webcomics were still a pretty new thing then and there weren't that many so mine got some attention I kept doing it I had dreams of getting the strip into newspapers making tons of money and hanging out with movie stars or whatever syndicated cartoonists get to do Usually not that it turns out It wasn't to be Ozy and Millie would run on the Internet for ten whole years before I made the difficult decision to move on to other things There's no easy elevator pitch for the strip Ozy and Millie are fifth graders and also foxes because everyone's an animal Millie is a troublemaker who enjoys trying to be unsettling Ozy is serene and centered to a fault and he also wears
