Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for July 31, 2022

A neat little trick I learned. If you want lines to be squiggly and irregular, just draw them by hand with your mouse.

What if Marigold looked at a mirror with her glasses on?

That’s just about how everything looks to me when I take my glasses off.

Marigold would love to find herself in Science Court. (Assuming she got to keep her original art style, anyway.)

Squiggly is when I try to sign my name with my finger on the electronic receipt machines!

Just now I’m recalling a scene in the 1963 movie Charade. Cary Grant’s character put on reading glasses, and Audrey Hepburn’s character suspected he didn’t really need them and was wearing them only to look intellectual. She snatched the glasses off his face, put them on herself … then got a shocked expression – it looks particularly funny with her wide eyes magnified by the lenses – and handed them back, saying quietly, “You need them.” The level of correction must’ve been at least as fierce as in Marigold’s glasses.

“My name is Daria. Go to h*ll.” – Jane Lane

Sometimes Marigold seem incredibly insecure.

Maybe this will prevent her from becoming paralyzed by the beauty of her own reflection.

The only way to get narcissists to stop admiring their beauty in a mirror is to say to them, “Have you put on a little weight recently?”,

It doesn’t quite make her look more like her sister.

How does Marigold put on her glasses? Oh wait, magic.

Today, I was serving in my bookshop and a customer bought a small book of quotations about unicorns so I asked if I could have a look at it.There was a quote from Julius Caesar in his book on The Gallic Wars. Caesar described unicorns as being “like an ox with a horn in the centre of its forehead.”

In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, a character says that as unicorns can be trapped by trees men can be trapped by flatterers.

(imagines a different version of some of the dialogue in this cartoon (specifically the dialogue in the panel second from the right corner of its bottom row))

I wear a very strong prescription because it makes everyone else look squiggly. Makes me feel pretty.

That makes me wonder about Florence’s glasses.

Wait, what’s wrong with Marigold that she doesn’t already think that everybody else looks much less pretty than her?