Dana Simpson ’99

Gig Harbor, WA native Dana Simpson ’99 joins the Universal Press Syndicate family of comic artists with a new strip, provisionally titled Heavenly Nostrils.

For a decade, 1998 to 2008, she drew the internet comic strip “Ozy and Millie” for which she won the Comic Strip Superstar contest in 2009.

Quoting from ozyandmillie.org, Dana reflects on work, process and audience:

Like most artists, my old work makes me wince. I look at “Ozy and Millie” and I see its flaws vividly. But I also see thousands of little lessons learned. I started the strip in 1998, when I was 20 years old, and kept doing it for more than a decade. I often say it’s my graduate thesis in cartooning. It still seems to mean something to its readers. And, flaws aside, it still means something to me, too.

From “Girl,” by Dana Simpson ’99, Amazon’s first Comic Strip Superstar award winner