Author: phinmagic

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.

Phineus Teen Wizard TPB

Phineus: Teen Wizard is now available on Amazon as a book or on Kindle! Woot!

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Barcrawl page 4 progress

Inks are comic along on page 4. I got distracted by website stuff and the cover for Teen Wizards TPB. This will be up this week.

Last round of pencils going down…

Drunk Duck and delays

So, I’ve had a mirror over at Drunk Duck since 2006, left with the Platinum Studios/Wevolt debacle back in the early ’10s andgot set back up, there a couple years back, but have largely ignored it. but, no more!

DD has a great community, great comics and a nice interface, so I’ve decided to be way more engaged over there, going forward. That said, I spent a lot of time last week tweaking my comics there, making them look awesome, uploading pages and setting up new comics over there, so I didn’t get a lot of time to draw. No Magician for Hire page, today.

I should have a new page up later this week, so look out for it!

You can check out all the comics I have over at Drunk Duck, and all the comics I assist on, too over at: https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/phinmagic/

Read me, here or read me, there. Just read!!

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The Plan…

For now, at least.

I’m back on Magician for Hire, I’ve worked out my plot problems, this will be the weekly comic.

A new Bonus comuc is coming called, “The Ghost of Alistaire Crowley”. Fun in Loch Ness. This will be weekly, for the most part, for Patreons.

I will continue, a couple times a month with the end of Maynard & Grimm, until it’s done. These will post early on Patreon, as usual, and in my blog on the main site. It will, retroactively be added to the comics, as I finish them.

Hope it’s not all too confusing. Trying to keep all the balls in the air.

Thanks, guys!

Barry

Red Sara

Sara Red Sonja

An oldie but a goodie. I’ll have these as Tee-shirts again soon at my Spreadshirt!

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Hell MI is a real place, I’ve never been. Walpurgis night is NOT a big thing there, but in my world it really is! Been wanting to do this story for a long time. Enjoy!

Ro is a downer.

Barcrawl of the Damned Credits

Funk.

I need to defeat the funk.

Real life has been nuts and my progress has been halted.

I’m also bored of the M&G story, right now and with 8 pages, left, I can’t hop back in. I’m a moody little bitch.

I need to work on another story to get out of the funk. I may start on my next bonus story, “The Ghost of Alistair Crowley”, or may shelf the M&G and hop back onto Magician for Hire and doing the “Barcrawl of the Damned”.

I’m going to work on some scripts and decide where I’m going. It’ll come soon. So sorry about this.

Barcrawl of the Damned Cover

New Books Available!

Two new books have been added to the ever expanding Phineus Amazon Book store!

The Phineus Role Playing Game: Backwaters of Mysticism!

An endlessly detailed and flexible tabletop RPG, created by my buddy John Burris and myself in college and fleshed out over the years!

The Complete Phineus Volume 1 (3rd Edition)

The first volume of the long running comic series. Phineus and Sara Beam fight monsters, vampires and more. She shoots things. He casts spells.
Includes the first 6 issues of the series, plus a brand new exclusive story, A Nice Day for a White Wedding, not seen in other editions!

Admin stuff

Complete Phineus Volume 1 :3rd Edition is off for approval at Amazon! Been tied up doing admin stuff, on books and the site and my Spreadshop, as well as my RPG for Amazon, for the last week or so. More comics to commence very soon! Sorry for the delay!

Nac Mac Feegle

Nac Mac Feagle

I’m 52 years old and it’s taken me this long to start reading Discworld, by Terry Pratchett. I’m mad at myself. These books are great! I drive 2 hours round trip a day for work, so I’ve started listening to books instead of music. I’ve read about 6 or his 40+ books, so far.

Fun stuff. I love these guys. They’re Pictsies. 6 inch tall, Scottish soccer hooligans with swords. What’s not to love?!

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Grand Ma Evelyn’s Wrasslin’ Theater strips

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Out of context, these strips make no sense, but it’s part of a stream of consciousness jam web comic from way back. I joined in because Highway 13’s artist Les McClaine was doing it. There’s a lot of weird fun and awesome art. Go and check it out!

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Maynard & Grimm Ch 6: Mother, Mother part 1

Background for Complete Phineus 6

Complete Phineus Volume 6 Cover Background

This one turned out too cool to only see it obscured with a Phineus overlap and cover matter.

The Complete Phineus Volume 6 up for sale at Amazon , NOW!

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The Complete Phineus Volume 6

Complete Phineus Volume 6 Cover

The Complete Phineus Volume 8 is available for Kindle and Paperback from Amazon! This compiles comics from 2012, including “The Brain Eaters”, “Have a Drink on Me”, “Terror of the Cthulhu Cult”, Bonus story “Dagon Come and Me Wanna Go Home”, as well as other stories! 137 pages Perfect bound or Kindle. Get it, HERE .

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The Complete Phineus Volume 1 Cover

Complete Phineus Vol 1 Cover

Here is the cover for the Third edition of Volume 1 of my Complete Phineus collection. There were two versions of the trade paperback, before. This is a recreation of the first trade I did way back in 1999, when I thought I might be done with Phineus. I was wrong.

*The Original Complete Phineus Volume 1 cover from 1999.*

In addition to new covers for all my Volumes 1-6, each will get a brand new bonus story, only seen in these books (or if you’re a Patreon patron). All volumes afterwards, already have bonus stories included in them. This book, as well as all my Trades, will be available on Amazon. You can find a bunch already up for sale at MY AMAZON PROFILE PAGE .

Volume 1 will be up for sale as soon as I finish “A Nice Day For a White Wedding”, Volume 6 will be up, as soon as I finish the new cover, it’s bonus story, “Dagon Come and Me Wanna Go Home” is completed, already.

Consider helping me out by supporting me on Amazon, and buying either the print version or Kindle version of any of my Trades!

Thanks in advance,

Barry