What's New with Phil & Dixie
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What's New with Phil & Dixie is a comic strip
by Phil Foglio
originally published in Dragon
magazine from 1980 to 1984, returning to print in the 1990s. The comic stars Phil Foglio, along with Dixie Null, as they explore the world of tabletop RPGs (the subject of Dragon) with a mixture of reportage and advice to the reader. A long-running joke revolved around the often promised and often delayed "Sex in D&D
" segment, which was finally presented in one of the strip's reprint volumes.
The strip's original run began in 1980, lasting until issue #84 (April 1984), when Phil went to work on other projects. One such project was an illustrated novel adaptation of Another Fine Myth
; Phil and Dixie appeared in issue #5. The strip was resurrected in the 1990s in Duelist magazine, themed around trading card games, before returning to Dragon in issue #265 (November 1999), running to issue #311 (September 2003). A final "farewell" installment was published in Dragon #350, the last issue of the magazine's print incarnation.
Reprints of the entire Dragon run of What's New? were published in three separate volumes in 1991, 1994 and 2001 by Palliard Press
, with Volume #2 finally presenting the long-awaited "Sex in D&D" article. Starting in 2007, What's New has been republished on the internet as a weekly webcomic
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Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
by Phil Foglio
Phil Foglio
Philip "Phil" Foglio is an American cartoonist and comic book artist best known for his humorous science fiction and fantasy work.-Early life and career:...
originally published in Dragon
Dragon (magazine)
Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...
magazine from 1980 to 1984, returning to print in the 1990s. The comic stars Phil Foglio, along with Dixie Null, as they explore the world of tabletop RPGs (the subject of Dragon) with a mixture of reportage and advice to the reader. A long-running joke revolved around the often promised and often delayed "Sex in D&D
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
" segment, which was finally presented in one of the strip's reprint volumes.
The strip's original run began in 1980, lasting until issue #84 (April 1984), when Phil went to work on other projects. One such project was an illustrated novel adaptation of Another Fine Myth
Another Fine Myth
Another Fine Myth is a 1978 novel by Robert Lynn Asprin, and is the first book in the Myth Adventures series.-Plot synopsis:Skeeve, a magician's apprentice and wannabe thief from the dimension Klah, tries to learn the basics of magic from Master Magician Garkin for several months but to no...
; Phil and Dixie appeared in issue #5. The strip was resurrected in the 1990s in Duelist magazine, themed around trading card games, before returning to Dragon in issue #265 (November 1999), running to issue #311 (September 2003). A final "farewell" installment was published in Dragon #350, the last issue of the magazine's print incarnation.
Reprints of the entire Dragon run of What's New? were published in three separate volumes in 1991, 1994 and 2001 by Palliard Press
Palliard Press
Palliard Press was a small, independent comic book publishing house co-founded by Phil Foglio, illustrator of such titles as Buck Godot, Girl Genius, and Robert Asprin's MythAdventures, and Greg Ketter, owner of DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis, Minnesota....
, with Volume #2 finally presenting the long-awaited "Sex in D&D" article. Starting in 2007, What's New has been republished on the internet as a weekly webcomic
Webcomic
Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or often in self-published books....
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