Live phone-in with Phil and Kaja Foglio this Sunday
I always loved the Foglios' What's New? comics in Dragon magazine when I was a kid. Just this week, I tried my hand at painting D&D miniatures again for the first time in nearly two decades, so it's only fitting that Phil and Kaja should come back into my life. Link (Thanks, Chris!)
This Sunday, I'll be hosting a live interview with Phil & Kaja Foglio as part of my podcast The Biblio File. Not only will the guests be live, but the audience can participate live as well, via phone, VOIP, or text chat. (A guide to how to connect is in my linkback URL.) It will be downloadable or syndicable as an MP3 afterward, per podcast usual.The main interview topic will be a discussion of why they stopped publishing individual issues of their comic book Girl Genius and instead started giving it away free on-line, and the effect this has had on their popularity and the sales of their trade paperbacks.
However, after I finish that topic, I'll be taking questions from the live audience about anything they'd like to know, for as long as the Foglios have time to answer. (Or people can post questions here if they know they can't make it; I'll pick the most interesting ones.)
Update: A reader writes, Though Dragon Magazine is no longer published (it's a paysite now), gamers have done a DIY publishing project called Kobold Quarterly. It's pretty sleek, with contributions from all the D&D heavyweights. They just hit subscriber #1000 a couple days ago.
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I've been reading Girl Genius for a long time. I absolutely
Phil's XXXenophile was the first explicitly erotic comic that I bought when I was 16; always very imaginative stuff executed with quality. When I met him a couple years back at the NY Comic Con and told him so, he interrupted me and said, "You of course mean you were 18 when you bought that."
"...oh, yes, of course, I-was-18-when-I-bought-that."
Also, he was the illustrator of certain editions of Robert Asprin's Myth Inc. books, though I think my first exposure to him may have been in a "Dr. Deranged" spoof in Marvel's What The--?!
I haven't thought about Foglio in YEARS. The last thing I bought was a copy of D'arc Tangent. I still have it almost 20 years later. I think it might even be signed.
Wow. Here comes a tide of memories.
The Foglio's will be at the Katsucon convention this year in February. An easy way/place to talk to them about why they made the leap to online distribution.
Some Guy, that's three total comments on the site and three blatant promotions of completely unrelated posts on your own blog . . . are you here for any reason but self-promotion?
Cory, re: painting minis after 20 years... pix!
Cr0m@7: Just as soon as I finish one, I'll put it in my Flickr stream. So far, I'm about 3/4 of the way through one, having broken another by dropping it off my bookcase and then stepping on it just as I was really getting somewhere with it. I bought a third on the way home from a meeting today so I'll have more to work on when the current beastie's done!
I love creator interviews.
Girl Genius isn't really my thing (I think I once penned an intemperate blog post titled something like "Why Girl Genius pisses me off"...), but one of the cool things about running a comic book website is that I get to interview the artists and writers that I'm interested in.
(So, yes, this is a bit of a plug ... but before I get treated like "Some Guy" above, I'll note that (a) this is not my first post here; (b) I'm keeping the topic on 'comic book creator interviews').
The interview I want to plug is with Clevinger and Wegener of Atomic Robo, here.
We've got interviews with the guys behind Walking Dead (my personal total fave comic book) coming up in a month or two...that's one I'm really looking forward to.
Just wanted to mention that some of the other shows on The Biblio File might be of interest to Boing Boing readers. An interview with Peter S. Beagle going into detail about some of the skullduggery of which he has been a victim mentioned here, for instance.