Girl Genius

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Girl Genius is a comic book series (ongoing) written and drawn by Phil and Kaja Foglio and published by their company, Studio Foglio LLC under the imprint Airship Entertainment.

As of April 18th, 2005, Girl Genius has become a webcomic, and quarterly publication of the comic has ceased. The new Girl Genius website has two streams; "Girl Genius 101" - for those who have never read the comic before - and where the back issues will be released over time; and "Girl Genius Advanced Class", where all new material is released.

Both streams of Girl Genius update on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Girl Genius is a steampunk tale set in an alternate history "where the Industrial Revolution became an all-out war" due to the appearance of "Sparks" — mad scientists with supernormal abilities in one or more sciences, usually conjoined with serious lack of common sense or a sense of proportion. The main character, Agatha Heterodyne, is the descendant of a family of Sparks, the Heterodyne clan, most of whom, except her father Bill and her uncle Barry, had been notorious for their villainy and ruthlessness. (The name "Heterodyne" is presumably derived from the telecommunications term, referring to a method of creating frequencies.) Her father and uncle, the famous Heterodyne Boys, established a Golden Age in Europe for years, but disappeared mysteriously, about the time of Agatha's birth. Her uncle Barry returned secretly to Europe with Agatha, but disappeared again when she was seven.

At the beginning of the series, Agatha is ignorant of her true name, and is being raised by two "constructs" (artificial people, rather like Frankenstein's monster) originally built by her father and uncle, under the name of Agatha Clay.

After her expulsion from the renowned Transylvania Polygnostic University, and her loss of a locket she had been told to always wear (which, unbeknownst to her, suppressed her own "Spark" abilities at the price of causing her blinding headaches and a mysterious lack of competence), Agatha's Spark begins to show, drawing the attention of the ruthless ruler of much of Europe, Baron Klaus von Wulfenbach, a former associate of her father and her uncle; and a former unsuccessful suitor for her mother's hand.

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Published collections

Upcoming collections will reprint the website content from where the comic series was discontinued.

The character of Agatha Clay was nominated for the Squiddy Award for Best Comics Character in 2002.

In 2005, Phil Foglio was nominated for an Eisner Award in the Best Writer/Artist—Humor category for his work on Girl Genius.

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External links

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