Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for December 18, 2015

Phoebe goes metafictional.

I like Ralph, I hope he stays lol

He knows everything she likes. Stalker! (kidding)

Ralph is the person I call when I am not feeling well.

Phoebe is being meta: “How can my Secret Santa be a non-established character?”

Wow, … she really knows how to stick her foot in her mouth. XD

It’s called a “fourth wall breach” – the fourth wall being the space which separates actors from their audience. A breach occurs when the actors address the audience or make it clear they know they’re in a play, as Phoebe is doing here when she is essentially speaking for her author and describing a plot device.

Severe tunnel vision.

what a fun twist. maybe this will go some place, maybe no? but its a nice twist.

what a fun twist. maybe this will go some place, maybe no? but its a nice twist.

i can’t blame phoebe. things get complicated when to many people involved

Agreed Phoebe.

This is kinda like how there are twnty-ish kids in Bart Simpson’s class, but only seven have ever been named.

(In case you’re wondering, they’re Bart, Nelson, Milhouse, Sherri, Terri, and Wendell.)

I’m just curious here, it’s been about a week since I posted the pattern for my “Morse Code” scarfs and while I’m sitting her reading my comics and working on my newest scarf I’m wondering if anyone else is giving the pattern a try; just wondering.

It’s about time we got a little ethnic diversity. We still need an Asian and a Native American character though.

Yay, increased representation! I kinda thought Sam was at least somewhat Asian, though. (“East Asian” not Indian—I know some folks get persnickety about needlessly classifying people by skin colour)