Origin
Phil Foglio is the co-presenter of What’s New?, a comic strip that discusses news and features of the gaming world, both role-playing games and trading card games such as Magic the Gathering. He works with Dixie Null, and frequently promises to do an episode on “Sex and D&D”, but events always sidetrack him whenever he actually tries to do so.
Creation
Phil Foglio was created by Phil Foglio, and originally appeared in TSR’s RPG magazine Dragon in 1980. After four years the What’s New? strip ended, but it was subsequently revived in Duelist magazine, where it refocussed on card gaming, but eventually it returned to Dragon in 1999, where it ran for a further four years. The strips were collected by Palliard Press, and these collections were later reprinted by Studio Foglio; the strip is also available to read for free online at the Studio Foglio website.