Phineus Animatic test

Did this a while back. Still want to animate a Phineus trailer at some point and actually use the animation part of my B.S. Degree.

Phineus through the years

I updated the strip I had of this from 2015 to include the newest stuff.

Phin and Sara 1988

A very early pic of Phin and Sara from a high school sketchbook. Phin was still the extra-dimentional hero, Sara the damsel in distress. Way too Highlander meets Mage, at this point.

This picture is SO 80’s I can smell hairspray. It was the start of piecing the characters I’d doodled into a fleshed out story. It was still a ways off til I found our Phineus, though.

I kept starting different stories until in 1991 during a comic drawing class, I forced myself to take, just so I could get this book started.

Draw or Die Draw Together

So, on Tuesday I attended the second monthly Draw Together event put on my D.J.Coffman and his wife Ally for Draw or Die Club in downtown Pittsburgh at the Federal Gallery

It was super fun, and I got to hang out with some old friends and met a bunch of new artists to sit, eat, talk and DRAW together. It’s a really fun thing to do, to draw around other people and socialize. As an artist, I usually sit and draw by myself. It’s so much more fun, with company

Draw or Die Club is a club that promotes drawing, every day. For fun, for profit, for mental well-being. It’s awesome. https://drawordie.co/

DJ had a list of prompts to go from and you could roll a dice and see what to draw. I ended up doing one of each and an extra doodle, too.

I’ll probably do this next month, too. And if you’re in Pittsburgh come on down and hang out!

The Evolution of Cole Beam

The idea of “Magician for Hire” started long , long ago as “Phineus 2036”.

I had the idea as far back as 2005. Cole has evolved many times, in look, name and character since then. As has the story.

I really like the curly haired version, and she may be a future, older version of Cole.

Phineus and the Black Knight

Possibly the very first Phineus story from 1989.

I remember drawing this while working overnight in a dorm at Edinboro University. Still not my Phineus, yet. Also, way too many panels per page.

Available to Patreons.

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Anniversary

Its a major anniversay! Now, I do celebrate two, there’s the one of the creation of my first issue (1991- we’re at 32 for that), but this is for the start of it all and the creation of Phineus and Sara, themselves. And the creation of my studio, Piffle Productions, my own personal studio moniker.

The characters were created my senior year of high school. Little did i know that these two would still be kicking around 36 years later. Ill be posting more sketches from my old sketchbooks and posting the original first takes on the characters in story form on my Patreon page.

I meant to be doing all this much earlier this year, but better late than never.

New Digs

So, you’re on the new and improved Phineus site.

The old site was run on clunky Comic Easel software that hasn’t been updated for a while and from a host who had the site down far too often.

The new site is much more stable, fast, and ,as you can see , a blog. All new pages and will post in the blog. All comics are backed up to Comic Archives (listed above), which are read in super quick galleries that fill the screen on websites and mobile.

I hope you all enjoy the new place, I love it. Wander around and take a look. If you see anything out of place, let me know so I can fix it.

Boy Wizards 5

How about that? A new page of my own stuff?! Borrowing a page out of my own book, i was just stuck on Barcrawl, so i figured I`d just work on something else and get art done. Thanks for your patience.