Girl Genius
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Girl Genius is an ongoing comic book series turned webcomic, written and drawn by Phil and Kaja Foglio and published by their company Studio Foglio LLC under the imprint Airship Entertainment. The comic won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story three times, has been nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist and twice for Eisner Awards, and won multiple WCCA awards.
Girl Genius | |
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Author(s) | Phil & Kaja Foglio |
Illustrator(s) | Phil & Kaja Foglio |
Website | www |
Current status/schedule | Updates on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays. |
Launch date | January 2001 (2001-01) (Secret Blueprints, Vol. I preview issue) February 21, 2005 (web publication) |
Genre(s) | Fantasy, humor, science fiction, steampunk, gaslamp fantasy |
Girl Genius has the tagline of "Adventure, Romance, Mad Science!". It follows the main character Agatha Heterodyne (introduced in 1995[1]) through an alternate-history Victorian-style "steampunk" setting, although elements veer from what is usually thought of as steampunk. Kaja Foglio describes it as "gaslamp fantasy" instead to suggest its more fantastic style.
As well as the comics, the Foglios have also written four Girl Genius novels, all published by Night Shade Books, and two games based on the world have been made.