Storylines
Pibgorn has completed 12 distinct adventures to date, and has begun another. The story arcs are as follows, named as McEldowney conceived them:
- The Girl in the Coffee Cup (initially started on comics.com, then restarted 2002-02-19; the strip changed to color on 2002-03-11, the earliest strip in the GoComics.com archive). Pibgorn the fairy meets and falls in love with Geoff, to the annoyance of his girlfriend Drusilla, who Geoff learns is a succubus demon in human form.
- The Poltergeist in the Piano (started 2002-11-11). About midway through this story, McEldowney switched from a daily newspaper strip format to a larger format.
- The Borgia Cantus (started 2003-08-11). This story introduces Nat Bustard.
- Drusilla's Daughter (started 2004-01-17)
- The Internal Fairy Harvesting Service (started 2004-10-18). Oognat makes her first appearance. This story introduced Thorax from 9 Chickweed Lane as a recurring character in later story arcs.
- Mozart and the Demon Lover (started 2005-05-23, repeated with commentary starting 2011-11-09). Geoff and Mozart switch places in time. Geoff struggles to finish Mozart's Requiem while Thorax helps Mozart understand what is happening.
- A Pibsummer Night's Dream (started 2006-02-13) presents the Pibgorn Players, along with the cast of 9 Chickweed Lane, performing William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream against a 1930s backdrop à la Guys and Dolls.
- Lena the Horrible (started 2007-03-21). This is the longest story arc, running for two years with over 400 strips. It takes place inside a computer-generated world created by a demon.
- Pibgorn and the Volcano on 77th Street and Park Avenue (started 2009-03-17)
- The Stone Coin (started 2009-11-23) is a departure from the canon characters and is instead an illustrated story that McEldowney wrote in 1988.
- Pibgorn and the Graveyard Shift (started 2010-01-21). Drusilla enters a repressed memory from Pibgorn's past that affects her actions in the present.
- Pibgorn and the Brunch with Death (started 2010-12-27)
- Pibgorn and The Djinn of It (started 2012-9-17)
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