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Klaus Wulfenbach: Was my son upset? Bangladesh DuPree: Oh, him? Yeah! He's all set to be a hero and rescue her--and then he finds out he'd need fireplace tongs to get her undressed? Yeah, upset is the word.

Klaus Wulfenbach: Was my son upset? Bangladesh DuPree: Oh, him? Yeah! He's all set to be a hero and rescue her--and then he finds out he'd need fireplace tongs to get her undressed? Yeah, upset is the word.

Phil Foglio
Hero, Son, Upset
"Girl Genius". Comic series by Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio, (2001-).

One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.

Phil Foglio
Book, Trying, Excited

If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.

Phil Foglio
Action, Direct, Ifs

My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.

Phil Foglio
Character, Fighting, Hands

I've also been busy doing stuff for Steve Jackson Games.

Phil Foglio
Games, Stuff, Busy

I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.

Phil Foglio
School, Math, Artist

As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.

Phil Foglio
Role Models, Roles, Bucks

Marie clasped her hands together and looked vulnerable. Payne flinched. “The only time you don’t tell me something is when you think it’s dangerous, because being a fragile, sheltered noblewoman, I might faint at the thought of experiencing physical harm like a common person.” She sighed, and seemingly from nowhere, produced an enormous cast-iron frying pan easily one hundred centimeters in diameter. “And then,” she said sadly, “I have to damage one of the good pans by smacking it against your thick, common skull until you tell me—

Phil Foglio
Thinking, Hands, Iron
Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio (2012). “Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess: A Girl Genius Novel”, p.218, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan.

Phil Foglio
Hats, Plans, Loses

Why the hell can't people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That's what I want, and I bet a whole bunch of other people want it too.

Phil Foglio
Sex, Nice, Writing

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