Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for November 18, 2012

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    CrypticWizard  almost 12 years ago

    I just love these heartwarming HN strips. This is just sweet.

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    Linda Solomon  almost 12 years ago

    purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    (sigh)

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    kendallclark1973  almost 12 years ago

    Marigold is such a liar… heehee.

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    kaykeyser  almost 12 years ago

    I did not know that about Unicorns. Also when I saw the 1st panel I was like “Oh know Marigold is dead!” the last panel reminds me of Red & Rover. I’ll have to stop by and see if any horse owners can shed light on Equestrian purring. Comments, there educational.

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    Stephen Gilberg  almost 12 years ago

    More C&H ties. I guess she’s “growling friendly-like.”

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    kaykeyser  almost 12 years ago

    As i go scrolling back up to get to the next comic I just saw Panel 3, her leg is twitching in her sleep like a dog. Wounder what Unicorns dream about?

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    Q4horse  almost 12 years ago

    This strip was obviously inspired by the author’s kitty cat. Streched out in a sunbeam, purring and twiching in dreamland. Sleeping horses do not purr, but may make some interesting breathing sounds that could come close. A horse will sleep laid out like that for only about an hour or so and only when they feel safe. It is an ultimate expression of trust for an equine to lay down and sleep in your presence. I am sure this last point applies to our unicorn in the last frame.

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    reynard61  almost 12 years ago

    “Unicorns do NOT purr.”

    At least not in polite company…

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    John W Kennedy Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    “Calvin and Hobbes” is a wanna-be “Barnaby” strip. It is not nearly as good.

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    bopard  almost 12 years ago

    A horse does make a noise like a purr. It is a little grunt/sigh of content. It isn’t as constant running as the cat purr..Mine would make the noise after taking a good roll and a dust bath. He’d lay out in the sunbeam like a cat. And he’d be so comfortable and happy I couldn’t resist sitting down in the dust pit and drowsing with him. Never where PHE is sitting, more by the shoulder.

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    MasonLK  almost 12 years ago

    No one needs to tear down any comic strips here.

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    oh, shut up.if you dont like it, go away.

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    Comic Minister Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    Sleep well!

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    artybee  almost 12 years ago

    I thought this was intended as an homage to C&H.

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    farren  almost 12 years ago

    Oh, Dana told you that? Riiiight.

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    catchup  almost 12 years ago

    I’ve stretched out more than once next to my sleeping mare – although I’d lean against her back, not her stomach.

    I’ve never heard her purr but she has done fake snoring before… As I approached her one particularly nice day when she was laid out. When she saw me coming so she shut her eyes and made very determined heavy breathing noises: Look, I’m Asleep, Go Away. Then, after a few minutes, one eye opened very cautiously, saw me still standing there, shut with a snap, and the ‘snoring’ started again.

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    John W Kennedy Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    Dana has actually said that she regards comparison, even negative, with “Calvin and Hobbes” as high praise, so she’s all right. But I have a problem with teenagers who think the whole world was invented the day they were born, who cannot tell you who Richard Outcault was, or Winsor McCay, or Rudolph Dirks, or Frank King, or Roy Crane, or Milton Caniff, but assume a magisterial air as comic-strip critics all the same.

    And, for myself, I find HN far more evocative of the realities of my childhood than C&H ever was, even despite the fact that I, like Archibald Grosvenor, “was a little boy”.

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    AlexLion  almost 12 years ago

    When you search ‘pure bliss’ on the web, this should appear.

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    cyberskull  about 10 years ago

    The only other purring thing I can think of has terrible claws and the pointiest teeth… does that apply here?

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    EnderKitty  over 9 years ago

    Ahah! I knew Marigold was secretly a cat!

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    Aladar30 Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Awwwwww

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    DM9001  over 5 years ago

    This is giving me Calvin and Hobbes vibes.

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