About the Author

D. M. S. Fick is an Emmy-nominated and PromaxBDA award-winning graphic designer and cartoonist. She’s worked on Peabody award-winning shows such as SciGirls, a PBS Kids program that encourages girls and young women to become involved in science, technology, engineering, and math.

In the past, she has: Kept company with a retired British showgirl who wanted her to move hooch through French customs, held hands with The Newlywed Game host Bob Eubanks, slept under a rock on Poldark's Cornish coast, and was an extra in the movie Fargo.

In 2015 Ms. Fick received an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board for The Oracle of Nuttown, a half-hour cartoon mash-up of forest creatures, Greek mythology, and classic 1970s movies.