Phineus will be 30

Next year the character of Phineus will be 30 years old.
First-Phin00I created him in high school, taking a computer graphics class at Carnegie Mellon University, pre-college art class. I got his name from a misremembered Philias Fogg, from “Around the  World in 80 Days”, a favorite book, at the time.

Phineus was very different back then. He was a total ripoff of Mage and The Highlander. He was initially going to be an extradimentional demon hunter. I had even worked up a bunch of demons for him to fight.

This storyline never got passed the preliminary stages and sketches. I back burnered him and kept going back to half started comics with him, and eventually Sara. Several false start comic exist. They are available in my Omnibus comics.

The Phin and Sara we all know and love came about in 1991 (25 years ago, this fall) in a comic drawing class final project. Haven’t looked back, since.

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Phineus : Magician for Hire is the brainchild of creator Barry Linck. Phineus was created in 1987, of then a high school senior after reading too much of Matt Wagner's "Mage", too much Dungeon's and Dragon's and watching too much of John Carpenter's "Big trouble in LittleChina". Over the interviening years Phineus changed from angellic savior, to reluctant hero, to art student who finds he is a mage, until, in 1991, for a comic class at Edinboro University, he became part of a Husband and Wife paranormal investigations team, with Phineus' sidekick and wife Sara. Barry produced and self published from 1993 to the present 33 comics with our erstwhile heroes, garnering a small but rabid fan following.

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