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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 has won five WCCA awards including 2008 Outstanding Comic, and been nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist, an Eagle Award and twice for an Eisner Award; in 2009, 2010, and 2011 it won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story. ''Girl Genius'' has the tagline of "Adventure, Romance, MAD SCIENCE!". It features a female lead character in an alternate-history Victorian-style "steampunk" setting, although elements veer from what is usually thought of as steampunk. Kaja Foglio, one of the co-creators, describes it as "gaslamp fantasy" instead to suggest its more fantastic style. The Foglios have also written three Girl Genius novels, ''Agatha H. and the Airship City''. ''Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess'' and ''Agatha H and the Voice of the Castle'', all published by Night Shade Books ==Publication history== The specific idea for the style of ''Girl Genius'' came about when Kaja Foglio went through some of Phil's loose drawings: "I was going through all of Phil's old files and I was filing all of the old sketches, and I was coming across weird airships and cats in tophats with walking canes, and all of this... wonderful... Victoriana sci-fi stuff... it was like 'Oh, this is everything I love!'" CBR News quoted Phil Foglio as saying, "We wanted to do something with a strong female lead character. We both like the tropes associated with mad science, and I really enjoy drawing fiddley Victorian-style gizmos". After some intensive long-term plotting starting in 1993, the Foglios announced the publication of ''Girl Genius'' in 2000. ''Girl Genius: The Secret Blueprints Vol. I'' was printed in January 2001, followed closely by the monochrome Issue 1 in February. Color was introduced in Issue 4 and subsequently, with occasional dips into sepiatone for flashbacks. In the collected editions, Volume One (comic Issues 1–3) was inked by Brian Snoddy〔(Brian Snoddy Art )〕 and was reissued in 2010 colored by Cheyenne Wright.〔(Cheyenne Wright at Arcane Times )〕 Volumes Two and Three (comic issues 4–10) were colored by Mark McNabb.〔(Mark McNabb Studios )〕 Volume Four (comic Issues 11-unpublished 14) was colored by Laurie E. Smith.〔(Laurie E. Smith at Prism Comics )〕 Cheyenne Wright is the current colorist; his work begins with Volume Five (what would have been Issue 15 onward). On 18 April 2005, ''Girl Genius'' became a webcomic, and quarterly print publication of the comic ceased. The Foglios have since organized the new web-only story into plot-coherent volumes of 100–200 pages each, printed as limited-edition hardback and trade paperback books. The site had two streams, "101 Class" (for pages which had seen print publication) and "Advanced Class" (for new, web-only material) until the older section of the story caught up to the new material, and made the entire comic available to read at a sitting. In an interview recorded in January 2008, shortly before they began releasing pages of volume 8 of ''Girl Genius'' on their web site,〔The first page of volume 8 is dated Monday, February 4, 2008.〕 the Foglios stated that they expected the climax of Volume 8 to be the rough equivalent of "the end of the first season," and that it would provide a logical break in case of author catastrophe and a fresh jumping-on point for new readers. However, this was a gross underestimate of the length of the remaining "first season." The end of Volume 13 turned out to be approximately halfway through the planned overall story arc. The start of "second season" of the series began March 3, 2014, with "Act 2, Volume 1,"〔http://girlgeniuscomic.livejournal.com/261579.html accessed 10 March 2014.〕 after a two-month hiatus of the main story. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Girl Genius」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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