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I'm gonna come back to this one in a followup post because the troon below had so much milk to give...I can't help but wonder if this author has some cow tendencies because all her books have similar themes and very little warning about that content anywhere on the outside of the book but she's still published by Scholastic and thus easily accessible to young kids.
"Dana Simpson" aka "Dana Claire Simpson" formerly known as David Craig Simpson.Simon and Schuster publishes the Pheobe and her Unicorn books which are written by a Tim.
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He likes getting letters from little girls:
Dana Claire Simpson, a native of Gig Harbor, Washington, first caught the eyes of devoted comics readers with the internet strip Ozy and Millie. After winning the 2009 Comic Strip Superstar contest, she developed the strip Phoebe and Her Unicorn (originally known as Heavenly Nostrils), which is now syndicated in newspapers worldwide.
There are twenty Phoebe and Her Unicorn books, including the newest, Unicorn Time Machine, all from Andrews McMeel Publishing. Ozy and Millie have two books also. All told, Simpson has sold over four million books.
Her books have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, and won the Washington State Book Award and the Pacific Northwest Book Award. She lives with her spouse and her cat in Santa Barbara, California.
She is emailable at dana at danasimpson dot com. And if you prefer the old fashioned kind of letters, it’s PO Box 6347, Santa Babara, CA, 93160-6347. (She tries to answer fan mail, particularly from kids.)
I've noticed a lot of troons going for that retro kerchief style lately. They think it's a femmey way to cover the male pattern baldness, but it stands out as so odd, since so few women do it outside religious communities, it's a tell on its own, like the chokers, or like pooners and septum piercings/gauges.

Simpson is transgender, and in addition to her successful Phoebe series, she is working on a graphic memoir of her transition, Only You’re Different, for middle-grade readers. AMP, which also publishes Phoebe, is expected to release it in 2018.
How does your experience as a transgender woman come through in your work, and how has that evolved over the years?
My work is self-portraiture. It’s almost a kind of therapy. So even before I was out to anyone (including, in a sense, myself), creating a character like Millie, and having her deal with the kind of emotional issues I was dealing with myself, helped me work through some of it in a way that nothing else did.
It’s a bit different with Phoebe because, since I live my life as myself now, I’m not as dependent on self-portraiture to work through stuff. In a way, Phoebe is me going back and filling in a gap in my life—I never got to properly be a little girl before, so that energy had to go somewhere, and Phoebe is that somewhere. This long after transitioning, though, I almost think Phoebe is less an expression of me as a trans woman, and more just an expression of me as a woman, full stop.
Phoebe is a girl because I’m a girl. And she’s a kid because I kind of refuse to grow up any more than I absolutely have to.
That’s the point of transitioning, after all, isn’t it? To get the issue off the table and move on? That’s always what I wanted from transition. To just be myself and get on with my work and my life. In that way, Phoebe represents something of a personal victory.
Would you like to see more transgender characters in children’s and teens’ graphic novels? If so, what roles do you want to see them in? Are there characters or stories you would not want to see?
I would love to see that. And I’d love to see them just being there like anyone else, rather than “this character is trans” being such a big deal that it dwarfs all other stories. (But I’d like to see stories specifically about that, too. I’d like to see every possible approach to it. Dramatic and comic, focused and incidental.)
I’d like to live in a society where the message we send to children about all different kinds of people is that it’s all fine. That no matter who they are, their story is interesting.
I’d like to live in a world where any character could be trans, in the same way that any character could be left-handed. We’re pretty far from there. But a girl can dream.
Correct me if I’m wrong on this, but I don’t recall any queer or trans characters in Phoebe and Her Unicorn. Why is that?
Heh. I’m honestly surprised people don’t ask me that more.
I have a few responses to that. Feel free to interpret the fact that I don’t have one single answer as “I’m not entirely sure”.
- Any of them could be, couldn’t they? You wouldn’t necessarily know. Maybe one of Phoebe’s friends is trans, or queer. Probably not Phoebe since it’s never come up, but even at that, how sure can we be?
- One of the kids in the strip actually does have same-sex parents; it’s never come up in the strip so far because I was waiting for it to come up organically, and in writing a forthcoming graphic novel (Phoebe and Her Unicorn In: The Magic Storm) it finally did, and so that’ll be something for people to notice.
- I’ve never actually been an out transgender kid, having transitioned in my 20s, and I think the trans kid experience is probably very different if you’re 10 in 2017 than if you were in 1987. Weirdly, writing about trans kids now would require significant research.
- Maybe this is me being a bit of a coward, or a bit of a hypocrite, but…that’s just not what I feel like talking about all the time. I’m writing a non-Phoebe graphic novel about my own transition, and I’ll have lots to say about it then, but for me the whole point of transitioning was so I wouldn’t have to think about it constantly. I like that the issue doesn’t come up in most interviews until or unless I decide to bring it up myself. (This interview, obviously, is a bit different, and that’s great, but I don’t want every interview to put me in the position of being Dana Simpson, Trans Spokeswoman. A lot of the time I just want to talk about unicorns.)
He is extra special porn addict prison gay with a fellow troon, a they them male computer nerd named David Brodbeck.





Near certainty they are also furfags:


The mere thought of these pervert men who do not have the least natural thing at all to do with little girls writing literature for them and seeking out their company sure does bring up some Old West instincts in a feller...