| What's New with Phil & Dixie | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Phil Foglio |
| Website | http://www.philanddixie.com/ |
| Launch date | 1980 |
| End date | 1984 |
| Publisher(s) | Dragon Magazine |
| Genre(s) | Parody |
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.[1] One such project was an illustrated novel adaptation of Another Fine Myth; Phil and Dixie appeared in issue #5.[1] The strip was resurrected in the 1990s in Duelist magazine, themed around trading card games,[1] 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.[1] Starting in 2007, What's New has been republished on the internet as a weekly webcomic.