Phil Foglio

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Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Philip Peter Foglio (born May 1, 1956)<ref name="autobio">Template:Cite book</ref> is an American cartoonist and comic book artist known for his humorous science fiction and fantasy art.

Early life and career

Foglio was born on May 1, 1956, in Mount Vernon, New York, and moved with his family to Hartsdale, New York, where he lived until he was 17.<ref name="autobio" /> He attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago, Illinois, and was a member of the university's science fiction club, art-directing and co-editing the group's fanzine, Effen Essef.<ref name="comicdb">Template:Cite web</ref> He was nominated for both the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1976,<ref name="hugo76">Template:Cite web</ref> and won Best Fan Artist in 1977<ref name="hugo77">Template:Cite news</ref> and 1978.<ref name="hugo78">Template:Cite web</ref> 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. He drew the first known Unix daemons for a limited series of T-shirts in 1979.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Beginning in 1980, Foglio wrote and illustrated the comic strip What's New with Phil & Dixie for Dragon Magazine from TSR Hobbies, satirizing the world of role-playing games. The strip ran monthly for three years. In the early 1980s, after some time in Chicago attempting to find work doing science fiction magazine and book illustration, Foglio moved to New York City.<ref name="autobio" /> He formed the independent comic-book company "Template:Not a typo" [no capitals] with science-fiction writer-artist Connor Freff Cochran (Freff) and science-fiction book editor Melissa Ann Singer.<ref name="comicdb" /> Working with editorial input from Chris Claremont, Foglio and Freff wrote and drew a single issue of a science-fiction/historical title called D'Arc Tangent before ending their collaboration in 1984.<ref name="comicdb" />

He eventually returned to the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago and continued fantasy and science-fiction art.Template:Citation needed For publisher Donning/Starblaze, Foglio illustrated the MythAdventures series of fantasy novels by Robert Lynn Asprin, and he later adapted the first book, Another Fine Myth, into an eight-issue comic-book series from WaRP Graphics. The WaRP work eventually led to comic-book assignments from DC Comics (Angel and the Ape, Plastic Man and Stanley and His Monster miniseries), Marvel Comics, and First Comics (back-up stories in issues of Grimjack and scripting over Doug Rice's plots in Dynamo Joe). He also joined the Moebius theatre group, and he held regular meetings and poker parties for the local science fiction community.Template:Citation needed

Foglio initiated his long-running character Buck Godot for the publication Just Imagine, published by Denny Meisinger.<ref name="autobio" /> Basing the humorous science-fiction detective on a real-life friend, John Buckley, Foglio "did a couple of those in the black-and-whites and then Donning said they wanted Buck Godot graphic novels", two of which followed.

Later work

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The Foglios at Gen Con Indy 2007

In the 1990s, Foglio met and married his wife, Kaja. The two contributed art to the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> from Wizards of the Coast and resurrected the comic strip What's New with Phil & Dixie for that company's Duelist magazine. During this decade, Foglio co-founded Palliard Press and published additional comics, including a new Buck Godot series and the whimsical erotic series XXXenophile. The Foglios later founded Studio Foglio and began to produce the steampunk-fantasy series Girl Genius.

In April 2005, the Foglios abandoned publishing periodical-style comic books and began publishing Girl Genius online as a free webcomic, updated three times a week.<ref name="comixtalk">Template:Cite web</ref> Foglio told an interviewer that as of November 2005, "[W]e've quadrupled our number of readers, and tripled our sales" of traditional comics and related merchandise.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Awards

In 1976, the slide show The Capture, which Robert Asprin wrote and Foglio illustrated, was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation; in the same year, he was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist for the first time.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Foglio won the Fan Artist Hugo twice, in 1977 and 1978.<ref name="hugo77" /><ref name="hugo78" /> He was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist in 2008.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He, his wife (Kaja Foglio), and their colorist (Cheyenne Wright) won the first graphic story Hugo for Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones in 2009.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The three again won the award for subsequent volumes in 2010<ref name="wp100905">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="2010 Hugos">Template:Cite web</ref> and 2011.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Having won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story in all three of its first three years, Kaja, Phil, and Cheyenne announced that, in order to show that the category was a "viable award" (with quality competitors besides themselves), they were refusing nomination for the following year (2012).<ref name="GGwithdrawal">Template:Cite web</ref> Girl Genius was once again nominated for a Hugo in 2014, but did not win.<ref name="2014 Hugo nomination">Template:Cite web</ref>

In 1993, he was awarded the Inkpot Award.<ref>Inkpot Award</ref>

Foglio won a Reuben divisional award from the National Cartoonist Society for Best Online Comics: Long Form for 2022.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Works co-authored

Works illustrated

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