Ursula Vernon





Ursula Vernon

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Ursula Vernon is a freelance writer, artist and illustrator. She is best known for the webcomic Digger and the children's books Dragonbreath and Nurk: The Strange, Surprising Adventures of a (Somewhat) Brave Shrew. Ursula is also a prolific painter and the creator of the Biting Pear of Salamanca, a work which became an internet meme in the form of the "LOL WUT" pear.

Ursula's cover for Best in Show won the 2003 Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Published Illustration. She was nominated for the 2006 Eisner Awards in the category Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition for her work on Digger. She was also a guest of honor at Midwest FurFest 2004 and 2009, and the Artist Guest of Honor at Further Confusion 2010.

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So last year, I planted a cultivar of Agastache foeniculum, called “Snow Spike.” It has white flowers. Pollinators like it. (A. foeniculum, for the record, is our native giant blue hyssop, growing up to five feet tall.)


I have looked through various grower information, and it’s either 18″, 24″, 36″ or 40″ tall, depending on who you ask, lauded for its extremely good behavior, compact form, and g...

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Average rating: 4.14 · 1,714 ratings · 360 reviews · 22 distinct works
Dragonbreath (Dragonbreath,...
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 533 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions
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Dragonbreath: Attack of the...
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 200 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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Nurk: The Strange, Surprisi...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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Dragonbreath: Curse of the ...
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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Digger
4.58 of 5 stars 4.58 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2005
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Dragonbreath: Lair of the B...
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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Digger, Volume Two
4.59 of 5 stars 4.59 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2006
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Digger, Volume Three
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2007
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Dragonbreath: No Such Thing...
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Digger, Volume 4
4.74 of 5 stars 4.74 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2009
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Digger Digger, Volume Two Digger, Volume Three Digger, Volume 4 Digger, Volume Five Digger, Volume Six
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“ Once upon a time, there was a little creature that was rather small and rather wicked and it lived all alone in the woods.
The little creature lived in a little den, at the bottom of a little ravine, filled with not-at-all little brambles and on the edge of a forest that could only be described as really freakin' huge.”
Ursula Vernon

“Trolls have a longstanding animosity for goats--"Who's that trip-tapping across my bridge!?"--and this led me to think that perhaps trolls are related to goats, since it seems a lot more plausible to me that your relatives would make you insane than some random hooved mammal, however ecologically destructive it might be. What if trolls evolved from goats? Or, no, better yet, what if goats evolved from trolls? Or were domesticated from trolls by human shepherds? And the trolls despise their domesticated cousins as a disgrace to the once-proud troll race, (much as I assume wolves would despise Chihuahuas if they ever gave them much thought) and eat them at every opportunity.”
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“I love boats. Boats are great. You can get all kinds of places and meet all kinds of interesting people, and you never know if they're going to try to eat you or worship you.”
Ursula Vernon, Nurk: The Strange, Surprising Adventures of a (Somewhat) Brave Shrew

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