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.

Barry was interviewed!

Hey! Wanna here me talk about comics, comics and more comics? Sure you do. Head on over and watch my interview on TGT Mesia with Kurt Sasso. 30 years of Phineus in an interview. Woo!

Newest #twogeekstalking interview w/ Barry Linck (@phinmagic ) creator of the comic; A Phineus Story: Magician for Hire (2021) | Two Geeks Talking https://youtu.be/ZhgtYj8Onr4 via @YouTube Take the time to subscribe to the YouTube channel, like the video and leave a comment.

Boy Wizard Strip

I was looking through old art and found this. Totally forgot I was going to do Boy Wizard as a strip. Ended up doing a Phineus Issue with him, instead. Amazing what you can forget!

The Original Gil: The Walking Dead (Or Vampires Suck)

Here are the original Gil pages, warts and all, along with the first page of a reboot that didn’t go anywhere. These were originally done as strips in a local music magazine, Forum 69, back in the early 90’s.

I plan on Amanda and the Vampire family playing a big part in Teen Wizard.

Sexy Times

For prior years’ VSDS entries check here: https://www.phinmagic.net/phineus/category/blog-2/vdsd/

Valentine’s Day Sex Drive 2021

Spinnerette – Spinnerette
Justin Pfeil – The Keep on the Borderlands | Jeromatic – Bunny Wiggins | Tom Reynolds – Genderbending Sex Comics With a Proper Story and Everything | Holly Laing – Terra | Centcomm – Datachasers | Lou Graziani – Cy-Boar | Darksh1ne – Monstroniverse Adventures | The Letter M – The Restless Dead | Blue Dragon – Dark Horse | Montis Echo Boeher – Glitch | Gojiramon – CKarrus | Lightfoot – Pulse | Team Lady Valiant – Lady Valiant | Midnight – Danger Zone One | utzsar – Rocks | Ebenezer Splooge – Hentai Poster Company | Ebenezer Splooge – PronQuest | Ebenezer Splooge – Hentai High | Stilldown – Ariane Eldar’s Personal Place | Stilldown – Theater Of The Bloody Tongue | Barry Linck – Phineus+ Magician for Hire | Barry Linck – Phineus: Teen Wizard | Amy Letts – Epic Fail | Sheryl Schopfer – Sharpclaw | Sheryl Schopfer – Deer Me | Julie Devin – Monster Soup | J.E. Draft – The Challenges of Zona | Jaycee Knight – Bloomin’ Faeries! | Peter Anckorn – By The Book | The Blood Teller – Alvery Nerveaux’s Secret Case Files | Microraptor – Playground – A Cryptida Adventure | Microraptor – Cryptida | rulerbrain – Selling Smiles | Caley Tibbittz Collopy – SwordCat Knights | Andrew Hunter – Delve | Mark Egan – Bata Neart | Mark Egan – Back Office | Marshall Reeves – Yesterday Bound | Dizzaster Juice – WhiteOut | Dizzaster Juice – Offworld: The Crease | Zach Vanzile – West Tree Academy of Heroes | Ben Bourbon – Devilbear: The Grimoires of Bearalzebub | MonicaNG – MoonSlayer | John Harrington – Super Rivals | Lirvilas – Grinder$ | Arne Cooper – The Androssian Prophecy | Sean Harrington – Spying With Lana | yellowgerbil – Shippon Girls | yellowgerbil – Zoe the Vampire | Nick Greaves – The Great Isle of Prentil | JHL Jones – Ayuri | The Exiern Team – Exiern Extras | The Exiern Team – Dark Reflections – Zen | The Exiern Team – Dark Reflections – Chaos | The Exiern Team – Exiern: Dark Reflections | The Exiern Team – Exiern | Stef Marcinkowski – Sarah Zero

For the NSFW art see, below…

Continue reading “Sexy Times” →

VDSD- Candi Caught nude!

https://www.patreon.com/Phinmagic

As Teen Wizard is an all ages comic, the uncensored piece is up ove rat my Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/Phinmagic . Enjoy!

Valentine’s Day Sex Drive 2021

Justin Pfeil – The Keep on the Borderlands | Jeromatic – Bunny Wiggins | Tom Reynolds – Genderbending Sex Comics With a Proper Story and Everything | Holly Laing – Terra | Centcomm – Datachasers | Lou Graziani – Cy-Boar | Darksh1ne – Monstroniverse Adventures | The Letter M – The Restless Dead | Blue Dragon – Dark Horse | Montis Echo Boeher – Glitch | Gojiramon – CKarrus | Lightfoot – Pulse | Team Lady Valiant – Lady Valiant | Midnight – Danger Zone One | utzsar – Rocks | Ebenezer Splooge – Hentai Poster Company | Ebenezer Splooge – PronQuest | Ebenezer Splooge – Hentai High | Stilldown – Ariane Eldar’s Personal Place | Stilldown – Theater Of The Bloody Tongue | Barry Linck – Phineus+ Magician for Hire | Barry Linck – Phineus: Teen Wizard | Amy Letts – Epic Fail | Sheryl Schopfer – Sharpclaw | Sheryl Schopfer – Deer Me | Julie Devin – Monster Soup | J.E. Draft – The Challenges of Zona | Jaycee Knight – Bloomin’ Faeries! | Peter Anckorn – By The Book | The Blood Teller – Alvery Nerveaux’s Secret Case Files | Microraptor – Playground – A Cryptida Adventure | Microraptor – Cryptida | rulerbrain – Selling Smiles | Caley Tibbittz Collopy – SwordCat Knights | Andrew Hunter – Delve | Mark Egan – Bata Neart | Mark Egan – Back Office | Marshall Reeves – Yesterday Bound | Dizzaster Juice – WhiteOut | Dizzaster Juice – Offworld: The Crease | Zach Vanzile – West Tree Academy of Heroes | Ben Bourbon – Devilbear: The Grimoires of Bearalzebub | MonicaNG – MoonSlayer | John Harrington – Super Rivals | Lirvilas – Grinder$ | Arne Cooper – The Androssian Prophecy | Sean Harrington – Spying With Lana | yellowgerbil – Shippon Girls | yellowgerbil – Zoe the Vampire | Nick Greaves – The Great Isle of Prentil | JHL Jones – Ayuri | The Exiern Team – Exiern Extras | The Exiern Team – Dark Reflections – Zen | The Exiern Team – Dark Reflections – Chaos | The Exiern Team – Exiern: Dark Reflections | The Exiern Team – Exiern | Stef Marcinkowski – Sarah Zero

30th Anniversary

Despite the slow recovery from the short break I needed to take this past fall, work is continuing on the new 30th anniversary arc, that will begin very soon. Please hang tight and check back for updates! Sorry for the long wait!

Last Days of Phineus Part 1

By Brian Babyok, Colton McBryer and Jordan Harris

This is a script and treatment for a story that never got off the ground. It’s a bit darker than I had planned, initially, but it’s intriguing. I may revisit it at some point.–Barry

Page 1 (full page)

“Dance the Desperate Breath”

Panel 1.          Phineus sits upon an elaborate throne made of bone (ref. H.R. Giger). He is surrounded by a harem of women that all look like Sara, though their ages vary from 14 to 84, all clad in naught but their bloomers and corsets. Phineus is clad as a Victorian gentleman, though he wears no shirt or jacket, merely spats, pants, suspenders, and a vest, revealing his left robotic arm as a work of brass, gears, and steam. More troublingly, his right arm is covered in eldritch runes, and is the only part of him that seems to have any vitality left. He seems utterly adrift, filled with apathy and brooding contempt behind the sunglasses he wears. His sword leans against the throne, stained with old blood and gathering dust.

1  CAP:    Civilization has fallen and risen. Humanity has once again crawled from primordial abasement. Phineus, has watched and suffered. Once the last Green Mage, Phineus has forsaken that noble path, turned from all he held dear by the mistakes of pride and grief. Now, Phineus is sodden and dissolute. How he came to this is a tale to be told…

Continue reading “Last Days of Phineus Part 1” →

Phineus books available on Amazon!

Have you always wanted to own your very own copy of one of my many Trade Paper Back collections of the long-running Phineus comics? Of course you have!

Now, they can be your’s, because they are now available for purchase on Amazon!

Currently, we have 4 Trades, each of several hundred pages, available for both paperback and Lindle editions; another two will soon be ready!

I am diligently working on extra content for the older Volumes of Phineus! All the trades will be getting new covers, extra stories and exclusive stories, that no one has ever seen, before!

So, head on over to my author’s page at MY PAGE and buy some goodies! Thanks in advance!

Barry

Inktoberfest

While I’m not committing to daily, I am trying to ease back into more drawing. I’m doing creepiest. First up this, inspired by a podcast about screaming skulls.

Comicadia Crossover art!

Shout-out to all my peeps at Comicadia! Drawn by @SkySunnymq we’ve got a big crossover here! We such greats like:
@ArtieTom
@kotaotan
@hpkomic
@DojoTheGreat
@Alli_Perry
@phinmagic
@jamilsart
@JosephOpossum
@hauntedstudio
@SeeTheRabbit
@DeftBeck
All at #Comicadia!
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Squat HQs

Here are some better photos of my HQs for Rugnar’s Raiders. I use Inquisitorial retinue, leading Imperial Guard squat commandoes and Squat Deathwatch marines.

Duncan Borrl, Squat guard commander.
Nathan the Invincible, Living Anscestor
Kris Kringle Anscestor Lord
Detail of Squat powerfist
Squat cyber berserkers
Squat berserker
Rugnar Grimm Warlord of the Squatwatch
Squat Weaponsmith
MMater of Ordnance
Wounded Seargent
Squat command Landraider
Squat rhino
Squat Assault Landraider

Squat HQ Miniatures

While my creativity has been stifled and rendered me unable to draw much, I’ve been trying to distract myself and been working on my squat army, repainting and touching up older minis.

Here are my HQs for the army. We have Kris Kringle in the gold exo armor, Rugnar the Grimm in the purple exo. Duncan Borll is the fellow with the powerfist. I have a few figs coming, where we’ll see Sheila from the comic as a Commisar with thunder hammers and a male & female pair of Crusaders.

I run my squats in 3 detachments, Imperi Guard, Deathwatch and Inquisitorial.

I borrow heavily from my comics for characters for the army.

And here are the rest of my boys, that need worked on.

And their rides.

Once I get them all painted up, I’ll do a proper photo session for them.

Phineus + Magician for Hire

I’ve merged the Phineus and Magician for Hire sites. It just seem counter productive and seemed I was competing against myself, constantly.

I have all the Phineus, here. The Magician for Hire comics will post here, as well. And all bonus stories will continue to post here, as well.

Teen Wizard stays on it’s own site, as does Maynard and Grimm.

Hopefully it all makes sense, so keep coming back and I’ll keep making stuff.

Peace,

Barry

Tablet Tutorial

  • I switch easily between my phone and my tablet. Here i show how i do my thumb nails in my notes program on my Note 9.
    I switch easily between my phone and my tablet. Here i show how i do my thumb nails in my notes program on my Note 9.
  • The roughs. Super loose rough layout of the panles. Super fun.
  • Step 2 of the layers of detail on the pencils.
  • Rough, loose pencils. This is the first run at pencils overtop of the roughs layer.
  • Completed pencils over top of the roughs layer.
  • Detail showing pencils done on my tablet. Screen is 10.6 inches.
  • Pencil layer setup, shown over pencils.
  • Detail, showing inking linework, using the correction at 11, to give a smoother line stroke.
  • Detail of ink layer overtop of the pencils layer over top the roughs layer.
  • Completed black inks over blue line pencils on a separate layer. Note, the effect pencils that will be drawn over in color.
  • Flatting the colors on the fist ink layer. You’ll notice I always have a darker brown or gray layer beneath, to disallow white from peeking through.
  • Flat colors, including effects.
  • Color flats shown, along side the layers I created for backgrounds, effects, colors, inks and the like. More complicated pages have many, many layers.
  • Flatter colors shown with a 30% red overlay layer to give the scene a reddish creepy look.
  • Close up panel shading, done in black on a layer set at 25%. I also do a layer above, with white for highlights set at 35%.
  • Detail of the completed colors with shading and highlights.
  • Text is added, first. The program has a number of built in fonts. The desktop version of the program allows you to use your system fonts.
  • Drawing a circle around text, using the elipse tool.
  • Adding a text balloon tail myvdrawing freehand using correction set to 20, for maximum smoothing.
  • Use the fill tool and fill the balloon and tail with white.
    Use the fill tool and fill the balloon and tail with white.

For decades, I made comics in a very old school way. I penciled and inked on paper, scanned the pages and colored and lettered in InDesign. Mainly because I couldn’t afford a graphics tablet or a Surface Pro.

A couple of years ago, I found a free program called Medibang Paint that is really great for making comics. I had a Galaxy Note 8, now a Note 9 that comes with the best stylus in the business, built-in. I created many comics, using my phone alone, small screen and all.

Recently, I was able to upgrade and get myself a Galaxy Tab A 10.6 for about $350. This acts much like the phone, I’ve been using, with a much bigger screen. I am able to run the same program on a larger screen.

Medibang also allows you to share between devices, easily. So, I find myself using my phone for parts, swapping to my tablet and back again.

I have plotted out my progress shots of how I build a page, on two mobile devices. Cheap. Easy. Effective.

Never. Stop. Creating.

Thanks,
Barry

Not so Teen Wizard

Doing some standard fantasy drawing.

Process post

Here are the process steps I took to create the best explosion I’ve done, to date. It was a bit if a different process, drawing in many layers of color, but i think it’s effective.