Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for September 12, 2012
September 11, 2012
September 13, 2012
Transcript:
Phoebe: That was my classroom when we met. It's not the same room, but NOT the same room. Marigold: You are the same person, but NOT the same person. Phoebe: It's too early in the school year to have to think that hard.
Frederick Huber over 11 years ago
You could not step twice into the same river.
Destiny23 over 11 years ago
I’ll buy that Phoebe has grown, but, has the room???
Q4horse over 11 years ago
Intimate encounters with equines are known to have that effect on people. Live to ride, ride to live.
Plods with ...™ over 11 years ago
She started it.
tazz555 over 11 years ago
So this comic is going with the age in real time strategy. So we might see a teenage Phoebe
Comic Minister Premium Member over 11 years ago
Agreed.
kaykeyser over 11 years ago
You know what, Phoebe still has the braided pigtails from Dakota’s party. I wounder if she’ll have a new hair style every now and then?
John W Kennedy Premium Member over 11 years ago
A) For some early characters, like Mickey Dugan and Buster Brown, it was part of the shtick.
B) Some pen-and-ink artists probably find it less work, once a certain inventory of poses has become automatic. I’m not sure how much that would apply to electronic tablets, etc.; I’m not an artist.
C) Perhaps animation practice was influential, where constant clothing simplifies staying on-model. (Even live-action television has been known to do it just to match shots and reuse stock—the most notorious example is probably the George Reeves “Superman”, but just spend a little time watching the Encore Western Channel, and you’ll see it was actually quite common.)