Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for January 13, 2015

When did this strip’s title change from “Heavenly Nostrils” to “Phoebe and her Unicorn”?

Since the strip is going newspaper syndication, Dana was sort of forced to change the name in order for it to be acceptable.

You guys need to visit Dana’s dA page (Pedantia) and Tumblr (HeavenlyNostrilsketches) once in a while.

Guarantee the Common Core thing wouldn’t help the unicorns any. Or Phoebe, for that matter.

http://pedantia.deviantart.com/http://nostrilsketches.tumblr.com/The Twitter/Facebook links are on the rightI’m for one preferred the original title, but understand the need, dang those silly marketing fools!

I have loved this strip from day one. I understand the reason for the title change, but I really do prefer the original one. It is more creative. “Phoebe and her Unicorn” is unimaginative and it almost sounds like Phoebe “owns” Marigold, which is something Marigold would not take lightly! Marigold will always be her own “unique orn”!

Thanks, Dana, for all the magic. May you continue and prosper in your newest endeavours.

They bring you, they take youThey own you, they make you

Although I much prefer “Heavenly Nostrils” as a title, I am grateful to be able to read the adventures of Marigold and Phoebe under any title.

Wonder if Dana had much input into the title change-probably done by a focus group at the syndicate-my choice would have been “The Unicorn Files”

but I would like to see her try (punching with her horn)

How about “The Unicorn and her girl”, like the Narnia story?

It will always be “Heavenly Nostrils” to me. I just hope we start getting new strips again soon, it has been reruns for quite a while now.

Agreed Unicorn.

“Phoebe and Her Unicorn,” eh? I’ll bet Marigold calls the strip “Marigold and Her Human.”

Sniff….I liked Heavenly Nostrils, too. Even Phoebe and the Unicorn would have been better. I’m sorry, Dana, Phoebe and her Unicorn is so pedestrian. Not unicornish in the least. Sniff.

When I read this comic yesterday it was still Heavenly Nostrils, but today it is the new Phoebe And Her Unicorn so it probably happened at midnight. They’ve been forcing name changes ever since Lil Folks became Peanuts, and maybe even before then.

I have to admit I prefer comic strips whose titles don’t give away what the strip’s about. Like “Peanuts” (I didn’t know it was changed from an earlier title, but in all fairness “Peanuts” strikes me as better than “Lil Folks”), or “Zits” (which Schulz, according to the back-cover blurb on a collection, declared “the worst name for a comic strip since ‘Peanuts’”), or “Calvin and Hobbes” (a strip about philosophers, right?), or “Frazz.” To be honest, I might not have even bothered checking this strip out if it had a generic name like “Phoebe and Unicorn.” “Heavenly Nostrils” was intriguingly weird…

Points for style when unique orns take tests.

When unique orns take standardized tests do they get points for style?

Where’d the RSS feed go?

The name change isn’t all that bad. A little more descriptive, I would think, and a good one.

Heavenly Nostrils and her girl: The Phoebe Chronicles.or if marketing thought the word unicorn needed mentioning to create salesHeavenly Nostrils: The Chronicles of a girl and her Unicorn.

So Dana . . . does this mean you’re going to be changing the items (swag) on sale at your store?

Great name fits just right

Think of it this way: When this strip becomes the next Calvin & Hobbes, we’ll be the hipsters who read it back when it still had the REAL title.