11 Facts About Phil Foglio

Philip Foglio was born on May 1,1956 and is an American cartoonist and comic book artist known for his humorous science fiction and fantasy art.

Phil Foglio was nominated for both the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1976, and won Best Fan Artist in 1977 and 1978.

Phil Foglio drew the first known Unix daemons for a limited series of T-shirts in 1979.

Phil Foglio formed the independent comic-book company "ffantasy ffactory" [no capitals] with science-fiction writer-artist Connor Freff Cochran and SF book editor Melissa Ann Singer.

Phil Foglio eventually returned to the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago and continued fantasy and science-fiction art.

Phil Foglio joined the Moebius theatre group, and he held regular meetings and poker parties for the local science fiction community.

Phil Foglio initiated his long-running character Buck Godot for the publication Just Imagine, published by Denny Meisinger.

Phil Foglio told an interviewer that as of November 2005, "[W]e've quadrupled our number of readers, and tripled our sales" of traditional comics and related merchandise.

In 1976, the slide show The Capture, which Robert Asprin wrote and Phil Foglio illustrated, was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation; in the same year, he was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist for the first time.

Phil Foglio won the Fan Artist Hugo twice, in 1977 and 1978.

Phil Foglio was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist in 2008.