These Sparks, who have incredible powers of invention, turned the Age of Enlightenment into a full-scale war that ravaged the continent, until Baron Wulfenbach brought an uneasy peace through force.
Girl Genius is set in an alternate-universe Europe with Industrial Revolution-like surroundings, airships, and mad scientists called Sparks. She added that "we have no punk, and we have more than just steam, using a different name seemed appropriate." Girl Genius differs from classic steampunk in that technology is not just limited to machines but also encompasses biology such as "constructs" – biological creations which range from Frankenstein-style creatures to talking cats and mouse-sized mammoths.
Kaja said in a blog post that when Girl Genius was first coming out, there was a comic called Steampunk and she wanted to avoid confusion. The setting has been described as steampunk, with reviewers for Wired describing it as a "mosh of Victorian era, magic and emerging technology" and "steampunk to the core", but co-creator Kaja Foglio dislikes the term and instead coined the term " gaslamp fantasy" to describe the work. Kaja Foglio describes it as " gaslamp fantasy" instead to suggest its more fantastic style.Īs well as the comics, the Foglios have also written four Girl Genius novels, all published by Night Shade Books, and two games based on the world have been made. It follows the main character Agatha Heterodyne (introduced in 1995 ) through an alternate-history Victorian-style " steampunk" setting, although elements veer from what is usually thought of as steampunk. Girl Genius has the tagline of "Adventure, Romance, Mad Science!". The comic won the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story three times, has been nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist and twice for Eisner Awards, and won multiple WCCA awards. 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. I preview issue)įantasy, humor, science fiction, steampunk, gaslamp fantasy
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