Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for May 26, 2014

Do I detect a nod to Mr. Charles M. Schulz here?

is Marigold going to stand for a strip that doesn’t have her in it at all? yes I know it’s happened before but I just never asked then.

Kind of like a paper cut. Not life threatening, but extremely annoying.

easy come easy go? or future death for dolphins and sea turtles? also nice to see an idea now and then that has nothing to do with character, age, setting, genre or unicorns. its a joke that works in any strip.

The plaid dress looks pretty, but…A plaid balloon? A tree with plaid bark?

duo-tone shading.

I came to the conclusion a few years back that there is no such thing as a minor tragedy.Pain is pain.

Having trouble walking and holding a balloon at the same time.

It seems to be human nature; we hold it together when the major stuff happens, but heaven help the poor slob who causes you a minor problem but gets to be the lightning rod for all your negative energy. I work in customer service; I get the brunt of inappropriate rage all the time.

Phoebe are you ok?

Every loss of art is a tragedy, and you can’t spell “artifact” without “art”. “…what we make, we love….”— Dorothy L. Sayers, “The Zeal of Thy House”

Maybe the balloon will get in among the branches and Marigold can magic it back.

HAS ANYBODY NOTICED THAT THE BALLOON IS THE SAME TEXTURE AS THE TREE YET