And that is the end of our Maynard and Grimm storyline. It was started as an experiment for the local Pittsburgh comic group, 7X7. We disbanded in 2020, but I never like to keep anything unfinished, so I finished it. I am still working on the last few pages of the M&G bonus story over at my Patreon, “Night Before X-mas”. All will be included in a trade paperback, that may be available this spring!
Here are my actual character sheets of the comics heroes, that I actually played in game. Rugnar was actually a character in a fantasy world campaign.
I have a whole tabletop RPG, but I’d like to develop a miniature based tabletop game along the lines of a Talisman or Space Weirdos. I’ll continue to fiddle and test things out at a gaming weekend I have coming up this summer.
Phineus Beam
Sara Beam
Rugnar Grimm
Brother Maynard
Father Ben Billings
Guess who?
This month into April, I’ll be finishing up the year long commission story I’ve been working on, as well completing “Maynard and Grimm” and “Boy Wizards”. I just finished up “Barcrawl of the Damned”, recently, as well. All these projects dragged on far too long, due to my car accident and also dealing with my depression and anxiety. I apologize for that.
Once these loose ends are all tied up, I’ll be starting on 2 new projects, both collaborations with friends of mine.
The regular ongoing story will be “Queen of the Cold Night”, written by Brian Babyok and art by me. This will post MWF on the main site, starting in May.
The bonus story will be “The Midnight Isle/ isla de medianoche” a collaboration with Shawn Atkins and is a crossover of Phineus and his Explorers of the Unknown. He’s written a treatment, I’ll be drawing the story and Shawn will color and dialog. Updates will post jointly on both of our Patreons. This should also start in May.
So, that’s our plan. I want back to multiple pages a week, and regularity in making.
Wish me luck.
Phin, meet…Phin!
I’ve been meaning to work on the Phineus Sourcebook for our Role playing game. Here’s the first thing. Phineus’ character sheet. This is present day Phineus, not Cole era Phineus, so he’s not quite as buff.
The Phineus RPG can be bought on Amazon.
I have all 12 of my trade paperbacks available on Amazon, now. Most of them have bonus content not available on this site. This is 26 years of my life and well over 1700 pages. And all I want to do is make some more!
I always liked drawing vampires.
Well, that can’t be good…
I have decided to restart this comic, from scratch. I will be posting the strips at Patreon and full pages after, here. Link to all my VDSD entries
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Avid fans may recognize this kind of creature as the same that kidnapped Phin in The Hollow Earth.
To commemorate Scud: The Disposable Assasin’s 30th anniversary, I did a Scud piece. I’ve loved Scud since Rob Schrab was doing shows in the early 90s when I was starting out. Now, he’s big and famous, but I’m still doing Phineus. It’s a tradeoff.
This is a photo of old art I found in my Google Photos. There are 4 original covers worth of art here, two paper doll prototypes and a couple sketches. These are all very old. Probably 1993-94.
The top one is a wraparound cover for issue #1. Markers and watercolors.
Phin, aged 17, at Fourier.
I know it’s a little late for a last year’s reflection, but here goes.
My year of art was inconsistent, at least. I’d been very disappointed, but when I go back and think of what I was able to complete, when I was able to work, it’s not too bad.
I finished, in the last 12 months, give or take, 70 comic pages and/or covers, a whole months worth of daily sketch cards, 2 sketchbooks full of drawings and a couple of shows.
And by and large it’s some of my best work, to date.By no means my best, but battling through depression and everything, I’ll take it.
Here’s to a more consistent year!
Phineus + Magician for Hire 
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