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Phil Foglio (born 1956) is a cartoonist and comic book artist best known for his humorous science fiction and fantasy work.

Biography

Foglio attended DePaul University in Chicago, and was a member of the university's science fiction club, art-directing & co-editing the group's fanzine, Effen Essef. After living in the DePaul dorms for a few years, Phil moved to the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, and hosted weekly Thursday Night Meetings of Chicago-area science fiction fans.

Foglio won two Hugo Awards for Best Fan Artist in 1977 and 1978. In the 1980s he wrote and illustrated a strip entitled "What's New?" for Dragon Magazine from TSR Games, satirizing the world of role-playing games. This exposure gained him considerable fame within the gaming community. The strip ran monthly for three years.

Phil also drew the first known Unix daemons for a limited series of T-shirts in 1979. [1] Around the same time, he began to illustrate the MythAdventures series of fantasy novels by Robert Lynn Asprin, and continues to illustrate new novels as they appear in trade paperback editions.

In the early 1980s he formed an independent comic book company named ffantasy ffactory with SF artist/writer Freff and SF book editor Melissa Ann Singer. Working with editorial input from Chris Claremont, Phil and Freff wrote and drew a single issue of a science-fiction/historical title called D'Arc Tangent before ending their collaboration in 1984.

From there Phil went on to adapt the first volume of the MythAdventures series, Another Fine Myth into an eight issue comic book series from WaRP Graphics. This led to a variety of other work in the comics business, including comics from DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and First Comics, as well as his own work such as Buck Godot.



In the 1990s, he met and married his wife Kaja. The two of them contributed art to the collectible card game from Wizards of the Coast (and resurrected "What's New?" for WotC's Duelist magazine). Foglio also co-founded Palliard Press and published additional comic books, including a new Buck Godot series and the whimsical erotic series XXXenophile.

The Foglios later founded Studio Foglio and began to produce the retro-fantasy series Girl Genius. In 2005, the Foglios became the first[2] creators to declare that they were abandoning the publishing of traditional periodical-style 'comic books' and were henceforth putting Girl Genius up online as a free webcomic, which they would continue to update three times a week. This business model proved a stunning success, increasing their readership by a factor of eight, and tripling their sales within the first year.[3]

The Foglios seem to have a fondness for naming characters after those of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse: in Girl Genius, a butler is named Wooster (reversing Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster, the master of valet Jeeves); in Buck Godot, a character is named Psmith (originally Wodehouse's dandy Psmith).

Phil Foglio has a recurring role as the emcee of Comic-Con International's masquerade event. In an attempt to keep the audience civil, he typically placates the audience by letting them shout out the number of the costume/entry. This is an almost vain hope that they will participate in this manner in lieu of shouting verbal abuses and such at less-than-stellar entries. In the past, actors such as Robert Trebor have been asked to emcee the event. However, Phil's more stern attitude and stubborn insistence that the crowd exhibit some modicum of etiquette seems to be a successful formula.

Bibliography

His bibliography includes:

• What's New with Phil & Dixie (comic strip) in Dragon Magazine #49-84 (1980s) and Duelist (1990s), collected in three comic book volumes (now available online).
• What's New with Phil & Dixie (comic strip) in Dragon Magazine #266-311 (2000s), not yet collected in a comic book.
• MythAdventures series of novels by Robert Lynn Asprin (illustrations) (Donning/Starblaze editions only):
• Another Fine Myth ISBN 978-0-91-544254-6
• Myth Conceptions ISBN 978-0-91-544294-2
• Myth Directions ISBN 978-0-89-865250-5
• Hit or Myth ISBN 978-0-89-865331-1
• Myth-ing Persons ISBN 978-0-89-865379-3
• Little Myth Marker ISBN 978-0-89-865413-4
• M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link ISBN 978-0-89-865472-1
• Myth-nomers and Im-perv-ections ISBN 978-0-89-865529-2
• M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action ISBN 978-0-89-865787-6
• Sweet Myth-tery of Life ISBN 978-0-89-865859-0
• Myth-taken Identity ISBN 978-1-59-222029-8
• Class Dis-Mythed ISBN 978-1-59-222092-2
• Myth-Gotten Gains ISBN 978-1-59-222105-9
• MythAdventures Omnibus editions
• Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures Volume 1 ISBN 978-1-59-222111-0
• Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures Volume 2 ISBN 978-1-59-222113-4
• MythFortunes: the MythAdventures board game
• ffantasy ffactory comic book:
• D'Arc Tangent #1 of a planned 16-issue series (no other issues were ever released). Collaboration with Freff, Lucie Chin, and Melissa Ann Singer.
• WaRP Graphics comic books:
• MythAdventures! #1-8 (1980s) (after #8 Foglio left and the series was continued with other artists)
• Reprinted as 2 graphic novels, in color and with additional art
• First Comics comic books:
• GrimJack #15, 23, 40
• Dynamo Joe #4-15, Special (script)
• DC Comics comic books:
• Angel and the Ape mini-series
• Plastic Man mini-series (script)
• Stanley and His Monster mini-series
• Buck Godot comic books:
• Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire graphic novel
• Buck Godot: Psmith graphic novel
• Buck Godot: The Gallimaufry series #1-8
• Cards from the collectible card game
• Metal miniatures and covers to the board game Robo Rally
• XXXenophile comic books #1-10, collected volumes 1-6
• Girl Genius comic book series #1-(ongoing)
• Illustrations for several games by Spiderweb Software
• Novel Illegal Aliens with Nick Pollotta
• That Darn Squid God!, Fantasy/Humor novel, as James Clay with Nick Pollotta
• Cover of by Tri Tac Games
• Co-author of , with James Ernest and Mike Selinker
• Illustrated GURPS Illuminati University (aka GURPS IOU) with Kaja Foglio. The dark to humorous Illuminati University setting for Steve Jackson Games GURPS Role Playing Game system.
• Illustrated cards for SPANC, Fade Manley's game published by Steve Jackson Games
• Illustrated CD album cover for Beatnik Turtle's The Cheapass Album for James Ernest's Cheapass Games

See also

• Kaja Foglio

External links

• Studio Foglio, Phil and Kaja Foglio's publishing house. Includes a more complete bibliography.
• Airship Entertainment, publishers of Girl Genius.
• The Slag-Blah Church of the Winslow, the most complete bibliography of Phil's work.

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NAME	Foglio, Phil
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SHORT DESCRIPTION	cartoonist, artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1956
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DATE OF DEATH
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2007 Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards Dealer's choice (disambiguation) Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist Illegal aliens (disambiguation)

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