What's New with Phil & Dixie

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What's New with Phil & Dixie
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The characters of What's New, Phil Foglio (left, an author self-insert) and Dixie Null
Author(s) Phil Foglio
Website airshipentertainment.com/growf.html - dead link, archived here
Launch date1980
End date2003
Publisher(s) Dragon Magazine (1980-1984, 1999-2003)
The Duelist (1993-1999)
Genre(s) Parody

What's New with Phil & Dixie is a gaming parody comic by Phil Foglio. What's New was Foglio's first comic, and it was published in the magazines Dragon and The Duelist , as well as in print collections and online.

Contents

Premise

The comic stars Phil Foglio, along with Dixie Null, as they explore the world of gaming, particularly tabletop RPGs, with a mixture of reportage and advice to the reader. Strips created for The Duelist magazine focused on Magic: The Gathering . [1] [ better source needed ]

A long-running joke revolved around the often promised and often delayed "Sex in D&D" segment. [# 1] [# 2] [# 3] This segment never appeared in magazine printings, but was finally written [# 4] and included as additional material in one of the strip's book printings.[ citation needed ]

Original magazine publications

In an interview, Foglio said that What's New was his start in comics, and it was first published in Dragon magazine in 1980. [2] In another interview, Foglio said that he had done some covers for Dragon, and he noted he could earn much more for similar effort if he added jokes. [3]

The comic first appeared in Dragon shortly before issue #50 and ran until issue #84, when Foglio stopped the comic to work on other projects. [4] According to Wizards, characters from What's New appeared in issue #5 of another Foglio work, a comic book adaptation of Another Fine Myth . [4]

What's New was revived for a run in The Duelist magazine, also published by Wizards of the Coast. [4] It ran in The Duelist from 1993 to 1999,[ citation needed ] ending when publication of The Duelist ceased. [4]

After the end of The Duelist, the comic returned to Dragon and ran there from 1999 to 2003 (issues 265–311), plus a final "farewell" installment Dragon #359, the last issue of Dragon in print.[ citation needed ]

Book printings and online publication

The entire run in Dragon, plus additional material, was published in two print collections by Palliard Press. [4]

In 2001 a third volume was published by Studio Foglio collecting all the Duelist magazine strips, along with some bonus content. [5]

From 2007 to 2010, What's New was republished on Foglio's website as a weekly webcomic. [# 5] [6] This has been offline since February 2016, along with webcomic republications of Buck Godot and MythAdventures , when Airship Entertainment's old website broke down. [7]

Reception

The author and blogger Cory Doctorow has said he loved What's New when he was a kid. [8]

References

Citations

  1. ↑ Rothschild, D. Aviva (2000). "The Comics Get Serious--Review of What's New with Phil and Dixie 3". www.rationalmagic.com. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  2. ↑ Xerexes, Xavier (October 31, 2008). "It Takes A Genius To Draw One: An Interview with Phil Foglio". Comix Talk. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  3. ↑ Maliszewski, James (2020-11-06). "Interview: Phil Foglio". Grognardia. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Dungeons & Dragons FAQ". Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2008-10-02. Retrieved 2008-10-03.
  5. ↑ "What's New with Phil and Dixie #3: Magic Years". Previews World. 2001. Archived from the original on 2022-07-22.
  6. ↑ Alverson, Brigid (2010-02-02). "Unbound: Talking with Phil Foglio". Comic Book Resources . Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  7. ↑ "Wayback Machine" . Retrieved 2023-01-26.
  8. ↑ Doctorow, Cory (2008-01-22). "Live phone-in with Phil and Kaja Foglio this Sunday". Boing Boing. Retrieved 2020-11-17.

Comic references

Source dates in these references refer to the original printing date. These comics were reprinted on Foglio's website between 2007 and 2010.

  1. ↑ Foglio, Phil (1981). "What's New with Phil & Dixie". Airship Entertainment. Archived from the original on 2015-04-28.
  2. ↑ Foglio, Phil (1982). "What's New with Phil & Dixie". Airship Entertainment. Archived from the original on 2015-04-28.
  3. ↑ Foglio, Phil (1984). "What's New with Phil & Dixie". Airship Entertainment. Archived from the original on 2015-04-28.
  4. ↑ Foglio, Phil. "What's New with Phil & Dixie". Airship Entertainment. Archived from the original on 2015-04-28.
  5. ↑ Foglio, Phil. "What's New with Phil & Dixie". Airship Entertainment. Archived from the original on 2008-07-08. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
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