Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for February 01, 2016

Phoebe’s Dad is possibly my favourite cartoon character ever. He’s got real depth of personality, a solid knowledge of his own motives and a refreshing honesty about them. I’ve met real people with less depth. If he’s not drawn from real life, I’m in awe of Dana for inventing him (and if he is, then Dana’s lucky to know him).

SoundHound is amazing. If that is the app she’s using.

Is that an app?Im not aware of that one.

Let me guess, “Space Unicorn”

There are still some songs from the 1970s and 80s that I don’t know the title of. Stations would play three songs in a row and “the guy on the radio” wouldn’t say who the artists were.

Actually, there was an app for that in my last not-quite-smartphone, a Sony Ericsson. I don’t remember what the app was called, but it was neither Soundhound nor Shazam.

I have always contended that Phoebe’s parents are Dana and her husband.

That you can wave your phone in the air like a wand and immediately know its name and probably download it on the spot is magic, and I won’t be told otherwise. (I love living in THE FUTURE!)

(Sniffle) probably part of why I’m no longer a disc jockey!

Me too Ethan.

Phoebe’s dad eyes look great when they are outlined like in this strip. Sometimes when they aren’t outlined, Charlie Brown style, the colorist still tries to distinguish the white part (which name escapes me, shame on me) from the iris and it looks weird.

It’s SO nice to have at least one comic on my daily list that isn’t devoted to telling me and my fellow Olds that Things Were Simpler and Better Then. Those weren’t “good old days.” They sucked. We were just younger then, and that was Our World.

In the early aughts, I used to keep a Composition book within a close radius to my stereo precisely so I could furiously jot down lyrics to a song I heard if I liked it. Then later, I’d search the lyrics on Google to see if the name of the song came up.

this is why i would tape casey casum countdown and rick dees and the weekly top 40 religiously

man i wish i still had those tapes

Probably Strange Magic by ELO. :)