Editing Buck Godot (section)

== Publication history ==
The first Buck Godot story appeared in issue #2 (summer 1982) of the [[anthology]] comic book ''Just Imagine'', published by Just Imagine Graphix. More Buck Godot stories followed in issues #3 (1982) and #5 (spring 1983). A fourth story written by John J Buckley, Jr. and penciled by Doug Rice, which has never been reprinted, appeared in #8 (winter 1984).<ref name=Gallimaufry-3>{{cite web|last=Hurwood|first=Michael|title=The Phil Foglio Gallimaufry (Part 3)|url=http://www.thugdome.com/slagblah_gallimaufry_3.html|work=The Thugdome|accessdate=29 August 2013}}</ref> In 1986, the three stories by Foglio were colored and compiled along with a new fourth story in ''Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire'', a graphic novel published by [[Starblaze Graphics]]. This was followed in 1987 by a full-length graphic novel, ''Buck Godot: PSmIth'', also published by Starblaze.<ref name=Gallimaufry-1>{{cite web|last=Hurwood|first=Michael|title=The Phil Foglio Gallimaufry (Part 1)|url=http://www.thugdome.com/slagblah_gallimaufry_1.html|work=The Thugdome|accessdate=29 August 2013}}</ref>

A single-page Buck Godot story also appeared in ''[[E-Man]]'' #9 (December 1983).<ref name=Gallimaufry-3 />

In 1993, Foglio began publishing the 8-issue limited series ''Buck Godot - Zap Gun for Hire'' through [[Palliard Press]]. Six issues were published on a semi-annual basis. After Palliard Press dissolved, the final two issues were published starting in 1997 by [[Studio Foglio]].<ref name=Gallimaufry-1 /> The series was later collected in a trade paperback as ''Buck Godot: The Gallimaufry''.

After successfully moving ''[[Girl Genius]]'' from a printed comic book series to a [[webcomic]] in 2006, [[Studio Foglio]] began to serialize the existing Buck Godot stories as a webcomic.<ref>"Buck Godot Coming to the Web", http://studiofoglio.livejournal.com/6084.html</ref> The webcomic started running on January 9, 2007, and updated three times a week. As of June 2009, the last Buck Godot comic has been posted (except for the second story in the first volume, concerning the Planetary Temperance League and one of Lou's employees that featured some nudity and one page story "The Gauntlet" parodies the old Hostess pie ads from E-Man #9, and a lost short story from GASP! magazine) and updates have now ceased. Though this has been offline since sometime in February 2016, along with webcomic republications of ''[[What's New with Phil & Dixie]]'' and ''[[MythAdventures]]'', when Airship Entertainment's old website broke down.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601000000*/http://www.airshipentertainment.com/info/comics.php4 |title=Wayback Machine |access-date=2023-01-26}}</ref>

[[Studio Foglio]] hinted at a possible printed (re-)publication of Godot "in late Spring [2016]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/girlgenius/the-city-of-lightning-a-girl-genius-graphic-novel/comments?cursor=12828831#comment-12828830|title=The City of Lightning: a Girl Genius Graphic Novel|publisher=Kickstarter|date=November 13, 2018}} </ref>