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Emerald City Comic Con 2008 this weekend!
We are very much looking forward to exhibiting at the Emerald City Comic Con 2008 this weekend (May 10th and 11th). We will be at table 304 - come stop by!

From looking through the ECCC website, it looks like we will be joined by quite a number of other webcomic creators:

The HalfPixel collective 202 Dave Kellett, Brad Guigar, Kris Straub, Scott Kurtz
Overcompensating 204
Penny Arcade 102
Questionable Content 204
Sam and Fuzzy 204
Unshelved 305 (Bill and Gene can't make it but Jana, the store manager, will be there!)
Wondermark 206

And, over at Artists Alley:
The Devil's Panties A-20
Snafu-Comics B-18

In other news, we have a couple of recent updates on our online shop. We have restocked on the beautiful Girl Genius Safari Backpack.

We've also been clearing out parts of the warehouse, making room for new inventory (like the Buck Godot reprint PSmIth), and have decided to clearance out some copies we have of Girl Genius Volume One that have very minor cover lamination errors. Our regular copies are $10, but these are only $2.00!

New eBay items listed
Kaja has listed more art on eBay, including two Girl Genius pages and another chibi Agatha. There is also a nice selection of gaming-related art. Please have a look!

Our shipment of Buck Godot: PSmIth arrived this weekend, so you should be seeing copies in your local bookstores and comic shops as soon as they make it through the distribution channels. Books that were pre-ordered from us went out in this afternoon's mail.

This seems like a great time to mention that Girl Genius Volume 7: Agatha Heterodyne and the Voice of the Castle is expected to arrive late next month - so this is a fine time to pester your local shop about getting one in for you. We will open our online store for pre-orders when we're closer to the date. Or you can pre-order through Amazon right now.

The softcover is $21.95, ISBN 978-1-890856-45-8

We're printing 600 copies of the hardcover for $39.95, ISBN 978-1-890856-46-5.

New books in the warehouse also means we need to make some more space down there, so expect to see some odd items show up this week over on eBay.

Girl Genius is a finalist in the fabulous Eagle Awards, in category 29: Favourite Web-Based Comic. Launched in 1976 and a regular event since 1986, the Eagle winners will be presented at the Bristol International Comic Expo May 9th - 11th, 2008.

In more local news, we have once again secured a supply of Girl Genius Goggles, with your choice of Nefarious (black with clear lenses), Elegant (brass-tone with clear lenses) or Diabolical (black with dark green lenses).

We also have a few of the Lab Specs, although sharp-eyed historians may note that we are now asking a higher price for them.

Most exciting of all, we have confirmation from our printer in Hong Kong that the long awaited reprint of Buck Godot: PSmIth is on its way! The book is 80 pages, full color, $18.95, and you can revisit its awesomeness starting at the first page on our website.

You can pre-order a copy from your local bookstore or comic shop (ISBN 978-1-890856-07-6), or from us or over at Amazon.

We're also doing a hardcover, with our attractive and unusual "puffy" covers, ISBN 978-1-890856-06-9, for $28.95.

More info as we have it!

A couple quick updates
Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye have another new Myth book out this month, Myth-Chief, with a cover drawn by Phil Foglio and colored by Cheyenne Wright. Unlike the last several Meisha Merlin editions, this tradepaperback from Wildside Press does not have any interior illustrations.

On the other hand, we just received the new shipment of Illegal Aliens, with all the original interior illustrations from the old TSR edition back in place.

Lastly, a note for those who choose to advertise on Girl Genius, we have changed around our Project Wonderful ads once again, and The Big Leaderboard is back.

Original art on eBay, SakuraCon this weekend
There are ten fine pieces up for sale over on eBay, including Agatha in the shower!

This weekend we will be down at SakuraCon, so if you're coming to the convention be sure to visit us in the Exhibit Hall.

Whoo Hoo!
Denvention 3, the 2008 World Science Fiction Convention, has posted the Hugo Award Nominations and Phil is one of the finalists for Best Professional Artist!

The Hugo Awards (Science Fiction Achievement Awards) are voted by the members of the World Science Fiction Society, whose membership is defined by having a Supporting or Attending membership to the upcoming WorldCon (in this case, Denvention 3). Simultaneously a popular and peer vote, the Hugo is one of the most highly respected awards in our industry.

In 1977 Phil was the youngest person to ever win the Fan Artist Hugo, winning it once again in 1978. The majority of his recent work has appeared online, so seeing what all the fuss is about has become easier than ever.

strredwolf quite properly points out, having the ISBNs for Buck Godot: PSmIth may make it easier for those of you pestering your local bookstore or comic shop.

Buck Godot: PSmIth softcover : ISBN 978-1-890856-07-6, $18.95

Buck Godot: PSmIth hardcover, limited to 500 copies : 978-1-890856-06-9, $28.95

WCCA Award Winners announced!
The Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards have been awarded every year since 2001. Voting is open only to fellow creators of webcomics, although with the number of comics online now approaching 20,000 this still provides a very large source of input.

Girl Genius was a finalist in 7 of the 14 categories for 2008 - and the winner in three of them! Check out the online awards ceremony to see that the competition was top-notch!

WCCA provides these fancy banners to help celebrate:

And the Big Kahuna of them all :

Thank you so much for your support!

Another quick update
There are a number of fun things to announce this month.

We will be presenting a Girl Genius Radio Play on Saturday, March 22nd at Norwescon. It will be at 11 am in the Main Ballroom, with a autograph session to follow at noon. The first several hundred people to show up will get a pair of Studio Foglio Buttonmen just for the heck of it.

March 28th to 30th we will have a table in the SakuraCon Exhibit Hall. Please come and stop by if you can.

Late in March we expect the second printing of Buck Godot: PSmIth to arrive, along with the limited edition hardcover. We will open the shop for pre-orders when we have a firm arrival date if you're looking to buy it from us - but be encouraged to ask at your local bookstore or comic shop!

In addition to the fine convention list we posted last month (Emerald City Comicon, Comic-Con San Diego, Denvention and GenCon), Phil and Kaja are going to be Guests at Kumoricon in Portland!

Last, but by no means least, we have just today posted two new products at our online store. The Girl Genius Logo Backpack is $15.99 and the nifty Girl Genius Safari Backpack is $24.99. We printed a couple dozen of each, but there's every possibility that we won't be printing more when these are gone. Look and be amazed!

This garbled news post assembled for you by Alice Bentley, Minion for Studio Foglio

And edited to correct the date for Norwescon.

A Top of the Month Studio Foglio News Update
Monday, February 4th, Studio Foglio is being featured on KPLU's "The Meaning of Work" during Morning Edition.
You can check it out on podcast or after the broadcast at http://www.kplu.org/meaning_of_work.html

Phil and Kaja's radio interview with The Biblio File on Talkshoe is now up at http://terrania.us/biblio as two 45 minute podcasts.

February 15 - 17 Phil and Kaja are Guests at KatsuCon, http://www.katsucon.com/ - at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington D.C.

February 22 - 24 Phil and Cheyenne Wright will be at Wondercon, http://www.comic-con.org/wc/ - at Moscone Center South in San Francisco CA.

We're also going to have a busy summer convention season this year, since we are expecting to be at Norwescon, SakuraCon, Emerald City Comicon, Comic-Con San Diego, Denvention and GenCon.

You will also be seeing more of our limited edition art prints showing up at conventions across the country, as we get more accustomed to sending to shows that accept Mail In art. If you know of a convention you would particularly like us to consider mailing art to, let me know in the comments!

This broadcast brought to you by Alice Bentley - Minion for Studio Foglio

A couple of quick notes
Our shopping cart system for online sales will be down for a (hopefully very short) time. We know about the problem, and are working towards a solution, but do not have a solid estimate to give at this time.

Distract yourself from this somber news with voting over at Top Web Comics!

http://topwebcomics.com/vote/2527/default.aspx

We've been posting a new sketch every day, and - starting tomorrow - there will also be a coded message in the text box after you vote. Collect them up, solve the code and enjoy!

End of December and time for presents!
We have had a printable gift tag page up over on the Free Stuff page for a long time.

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/fun/freestuff.php

It is now joined by downloadable PDFs of the cutouts for Agatha's Locket and ... drumroll ... eight tiny airships!

Also new for this month is "The Cat on the Dovrefjell", http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/stories/dovrefjell/dovrefjell_01.php , Kaja's retelling of a favorite folk tale. Drawn in 1996, and first published in the Last Dangerous Christmas anthology from Aeon.

Thanks for reading!

Studio Foglio Sponsors Webcomics Costume Award
Studio Foglio is pleased to announce that they will be presenting an award for Favorite Webcomic-based Costume at the 2008 Comic-Con Masquerade.

The prize is $250 plus a swag bag of printed books from a variety of webcomics.

Judging will be done by someone not employed by Studio Foglio, and will consider all masquerade entires that are based on a webcomic, not just titles produced by Studio Foglio.

The convention is being held from July 24th through July 27th 2008 in San Diego California. Check out http://www.comic-con.org/cci/ for details about the convention.

MythAdventures - on the way!
Next week we are expecting the shipment of the hardcover and softcover of MythAdventures, the comic adaptation Phil did of Robert Asprin's novel Another Fine Myth.

Originally published in the 1980's by WaRP Graphics as eight black & white comics, then by Donning as two color volumes, the Studio Foglio version is 9" wide by 11.5" tall, 240 pages fat, with full color on high quality paper.

( The snazzy cover )

The softcover is $39.95, ISBN 978-890856-44-1, and we've printed a lot of them.

The hardcover is $54.95, ISBN 978-890856-43-4, and we've only printed 500 copies, which should be enough to last a little while, but we have no plans to reprint the hardcover once it's gone.

As always, we encourage you to support your local bookstore and comic shop. If they are not already aware of this title, you can let them know that shops can order them through Diamond Books, Baker & Taylor, Ingram and other major distributors.

The Studio Foglio website is also accepting pre-orders now at ( our lovely shopping cart page ).

There you will also see MythFortunes, a fun-filled MythAdventures board game published by Mayfair Games. We picked up the last of the print run, so while we do have a pile of copies on hand, when they're gone there won't be more! $25.00

2007 Weblog Awards
Girl Genius is up for a Weblog award for 2007!

You can vote for us here! (Please?)

Hey! Off World Designs has printed up the "Fools, I Will Destroy You All!" shirts. They look like this:

except without the copyright protection URL across the whole thing. I know, because I did the graphic design, what there is of it.

Now, here's the thing. I told the folks at Off Worldthat this was a shirt people have been asking for (true) so all of you who wanted it, don't make me look bad!

It's from this page, remember? Also, Off World does a nice job on their shirts, you may have seen their booths at conventions across the country.

Hmmm, seems like some folks get through to the new page just fine, while others see an Internal Server Error.

Don't know quite what's going on at the moment, but let me remind all LJ folk that there's a mirror to the pages at

girlgeniuscomic, and that seems to be holding up.

The site was down for a few hours this morning, back up as of 10:40 AM PDT.

For future backup, and to make the comic that much easier to find, we're also going to be posting the pages at

girlgeniuscomic. Hope that helps!

Phil and Kaja are back from their ACM talk in Illinois, and you can download a wmv of it at:

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/videos

In other news, we have restocked on Nefarious (black rims with clear lenses) and Elegant (brass-tone rims with clear lenses) goggles, while still having a good stock of Diabolical (black rims with green lenses) goggles and Lab Specs. Go us!

Other new product announcements to come (certain posters, especially).