Original Complete Phineus Cover

This was my original cover for the Complete Phineus Trade paperback, when I had only one! I love Sara’s pose on this one.

Mel & Laurel Shower scene

Here’s an old drawing I did of my buddy Brian Bayok’s characters, Mel & Laurel, caught in a compromising situation! It’s my pencils with Tim Etchison’s inks over them! A blast from the past!

Foppish Phin!

I was digging through my old portfolio and came across this from 1999.

When I started working on my second volume of Phineus, after Phin had his heart attack in “Rotwang”, I knew I wanted to change his look. This was what I was looking at doing. Giving him a more dressed up look, and cane, as I was going to have him walk with a limp. I went more scruffy than fancy, as you know by now. Still, I kind of dig this one.

Phineus Meets Moliere By John Dean

Phineus meets Moltaire

By John Dean

Phineus Magician for Hire,
Phineus meets Möltaire

Based on original characters created by Barry Linck

Background: Phineus is a magician; for hire. He and his wife Sarah hunt vampires and other paranormal nuisances. Comic book author, Barry Linck created and pub
lishes these characters. The following script was for a collaborative effort between Barry and myself.

And so, Phineus meets Moltaire. Continue reading “Phineus Meets Moliere By John Dean” →

Agnes Beam Stuff

Here are some Agnes Beam prelim pics from Glenn Csonka! Cool stuff!

Phin for Hire by Chris Howard

Another great Guest piece by Dressed for Success creator Chris Howard!

ODK boys

The paranormal trinity of OLD DYING KITTY, Chance, William Feist and Phineus from The Path, William Feist: Paranormal Investigator & Phineus: Magician for Hire. Drawn by the lovely and talented Calvin Garcia!

Agnes Beam comic by Glenn Csonka

My very good friend Glenn Csonka (creator of Animal Force) is working on this old yet unfulfilled idea. Glenn and I have known each other since middle school. We were study hall cartoon buddies. Glenn taught me a lot of stuff in those early days and it was fun to have somebody to draw with.

My 5th published comic, “The Undead Hotdog Incident” had Glenn’s first “Animal Force” as a backup/flip comic.

Glenn has been wanting to do a steampunk Phineus story. While discussing what he could do, I suggested doing a prequel to Phineus using his great great grandmother , Agnes Beam. I’ve been wanting do do this for a while, but Glenn beat me to it!

It’ll be set in turn of the century Pittsburgh. Glenn is doing a lot of research of Pittsburgh history and folklore.

This makes three stories being written and drawn by others in my world. I am one lucky bastard!

Noeland Collins’ “Werewolf Conundrum“

Jon Towers’ “The Mother of All Monsters“

October Appearances

After a self-induced appearance hiatus, and now that I have a new not zombie-fied job, I’ll be doing stuff in October!

We will be having our 24 Hour Comic Challenge on October 1st, this year, again at the Pittsburgh Toonseum. It starts at 12 noon, so come down and support us, or better, yet, come make your own!

Then, the next week, we’ll be having an independent comic expo, also presented by the Toonseum (gotta love those guys!). I missed this one last year, but I hear it’s an awesome show!