If you haven’t already seen it, there is a Phineus related story over at Drunk Duck Zombies
Zombiehaus

It was great fun and good practice, producing 12 pages in 7 days! Cartoony and goofy, but fun!

New Phin AND Sara story starts Monday! Bringing the Christmas spirit to the Duck! Be there or be square!

>If you haven’t already seen it, there is a Phineus related story over at Drunk Duck Zombies
Zombiehaus

It was great fun and good practice, producing 12 pages in 7 days! Cartoony and goofy, but fun!

New Phin AND Sara story starts Monday! Bringing the Christmas spirit to the Duck! Be there or be square!

This past Saturday, I attempted (and failed) the 24 hr comic challenge, here in Pittsburgh. We had a cool turn out, with @12 attendees all making comics!

I made it from 9am until 3:30 am, getting 10 pages completed of a new Phineus story! I hope to finish the story this week. I just had to split to get home and see my girls, and be awake to spend time with them and my wife.

We had a pretty great Drunk Duck presence there with 7 of us in attendance!

Now , I usually work fast, but John from Nonstandard assembly smoked me! , by 3:30 a he had 16 pages in the bag! This guys frigging awesome!! You go John!

We also had Scott, Dan , Brian
, Byron , and Mike and Cheryl . Plus a couple of people I really didn’t know. Good times, though!

I highly encourage this for every comic creator, especially with a group, the comradery alone is worth the lack of sleep!

Cheers!

>This past Saturday, I attempted (and failed) the 24 hr comic challenge, here in Pittsburgh. We had a cool turn out, with @12 attendees all making comics!

I made it from 9am until 3:30 am, getting 10 pages completed of a new Phineus story! I hope to finish the story this week. I just had to split to get home and see my girls, and be awake to spend time with them and my wife.

We had a pretty great Drunk Duck presence there with 7 of us in attendance!

Now , I usually work fast, but John from Nonstandard assembly smoked me! , by 3:30 a he had 16 pages in the bag! This guys frigging awesome!! You go John!

We also had Scott, Dan , Brian
, Byron , and Mike and Cheryl . Plus a couple of people I really didn’t know. Good times, though!

I highly encourage this for every comic creator, especially with a group, the comradery alone is worth the lack of sleep!

Cheers!

This past Saturday, I attempted (and failed) the 24 hr comic challenge, here in Pittsburgh. We had a cool turn out, with @12 attendees all making comics!

I made it from 9am until 3:30 am, getting 10 pages completed of a new Phineus story! I hope to finish the story this week. I just had to split to get home and see my girls, and be awake to spend time with them and my wife.

We had a pretty great Drunk Duck presence there with 7 of us in attendance!

Now , I usually work fast, but John http://user.drunkduck.com/jmt from Nonstandard assembly smoked me! , by 3:30 a he had 16 pages in the bag! This guys frigging awesome!! You go John!

We also had Scott http://user.drunkduck.com/scottyduke/, Dan http://user.drunkduck.com/evergreen/, Brian http://user.drunkduck.com/oachambers/
, Byron http://user.drunkduck.com/ubernite, and Mike and Cheryl http://bastardchimp.livejournal.com/. Plus a couple of people I really didn’t know. Good times, though!

I highly encourage this for every comic creator, especially with a group, the comradery alone is worth the lack of sleep!

Cheers!

Here is a story written about me and the other artists attending the 24 Hr Comic Challenge this Saturday. From McKnight Journal 10/17/07 and Pittsburgh Tribune Review 10/18/07:

Comic book artists take part in marathon

by Daveen Rae Kurutz
Staff Writer
October 17, 2007

It normally takes Barry Linck at least a month to pull together a tale of “Phineus Magician for Hire” — but not Saturday night.

That’s when the comic artist behind the boy magician will join thousands of others around the world for 24 Hour Comics Day — a one-day event where comic artists try to create a 24-page comic book in 24 hours.

“It’s a good opportunity to network with other Pittsburgh comic artists,” said Linck, 37, of Baden. “This is a neat communal opportunity.”

This year’s event will take place locally at the Bellevue Creative Treehouse, beginning at 9 a.m.
“It’ll be a little artist warzone,” said Jesse Hambley, founder of the Creative Treehouse. “It will be awesome and pretty intense.”

This is the first year the event will be held at the newly formed Creative Treehouse, said Hambley, 24, of the North Side. Recently, the site hosted a Creative Marathon that brought in more than 50 artists to complete projects throughout the day. But comics are a new frontier for the Treehouse.

“I’m a newbie on this,” Hambley said. “I think it’s just a good opportunity to get artists to come together and work to grow a stronger community.”

There are many benefits to participating in the event, Linck said. While last year he only got through 15 pages of his issue before sleep commanded him to head home, a good story idea came out of the event, Linck said. This year, his goal is to complete the comic, which won’t hit the web until this winter.

But more than anything, the event gives comic artists the opportunity to bounce ideas off of one another.

“When you’re doing a comic, you’re usually working by yourself,” Linck said. “I just advise people to come with ideas and an open and creative mind.”

Participants don’t have to be experienced comic artists — in the past comics have been created using stick figure characters. According to the event’s website, 24hourcomics.com, many comic characters face a blizzard or fall into a dark pit in the later pages of the comic — allowing artists to use a pure black or white page.

Coffee and energy drinks are an additional supply that might be useful for many artists. Staying awake is a major challenge for participants, Linck said.

“Last year, I left in the middle of the night, but there were people lying down on the couch for naps,” Linck said. “It’s not necessarily stressful, but just trying to be motivated to keep working when you’re that tired.”

Nevertheless, the event offers participants an opportunity to get back in the swing of comic artistry, whether they are seasoned veterans or are putting the ink to the page for the first time.

“It’s sort of magical how it happens when you’re doing it so quickly,” Linck said. “I liken it to improv — you make things up on the fly and go with it. This is the comic book version of it.”

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Next week is the 24 Hr Comic Challenge, YAY!

Next week is the 24 Hr Comic Challenge, YAY!

Yoy! Come and be a part!

Barry

I had a business day, today! In addition to mowing the lawn, trimming the hedges and painting the Outside railing, I was up til 4 am working on Weirdlings and lettering the 10 pager I did for Riot. You cna see a sneek preview here:

I also got Page 1 of Creephunter done, this goes up in October!

Barry

It’s been a Busy couple of weeks!

I finished a 10 page story, from Sara’s past with James Riot’s Chance from The Path. http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Path/ It’s fun stuff.
I have also completed up to page 19 of the Phineus Xmas story.
I just polished off page 1 of my and Mike Woods’ Bobby Carter: Creephunter. That will go live in October on Drunk Duck!

That’s like 19 pages pencilled and inked in 3 weeks! Whew! I gotta keep it up!

>It’s been a Busy couple of weeks!

I finished a 10 page story, from Sara’s past with James Riot’s Chance from The Path. http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Path/ It’s fun stuff.
I have also completed up to page 19 of the Phineus Xmas story.
I just polished off page 1 of my and Mike Woods’ Bobby Carter: Creephunter. That will go live in October on Drunk Duck!

That’s like 19 pages pencilled and inked in 3 weeks! Whew! I gotta keep it up!

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Come join Phineus: Magician for Hire in our celebration of 20 years of Phineus! That’s right, Phineus was created in 1987! He didn’t find the form we all know and love until 1991, but the character is 20 this year!

Visit the Phineus sites and relive the old and experiance the new as the ever expanding world of Phineus continues!

Phineus Site: (ongoing story) ]http://www.drunkduck.com/Phineus_Magician_for_Hire/
Spellbook: (Background) http://www.drunkduck.com/Phineus_Spellbook/
Micellaneous Piffle: (oddities) http://www.drunkduck.com/Miscellaneous_Piffle/

Barry

Come join Phineus: Magician for Hire in our celebration of 20 years of Phineus! That’s right, Phineus was created in 1987! He didn’t find the form we all know and love until 1991, but the character is 20 this year!

Visit the Phineus sites and relive the old and experiance the new as the ever expanding world of Phineus continues!

Phineus Site: (ongoing story) ]http://www.drunkduck.com/Phineus_Magician_for_Hire/
Spellbook: (Background) http://www.drunkduck.com/Phineus_Spellbook/
Micellaneous Piffle: (oddities) http://www.drunkduck.com/Miscellaneous_Piffle/

Barry

Come join Phineus: Magician for Hire in our celebration of 20 years of Phineus! That’s right, Phineus was created in 1987! He didn’t find the form we all know and love until 1991, but the character is 20 this year!

Visit the Phineus sites and relive the old and experiance the new as the ever expanding world of Phineus continues!

Phineus Site: (ongoing story) http://www.drunkduck.com/Phineus_Magician_for_Hire/
Spellbook: (Background) http://www.drunkduck.com/Phineus_Spellbook/
Micellaneous Piffle: (oddities) http://www.drunkduck.com/Miscellaneous_Piffle/

Barry

I’ve been so busy, I haven’t been able to post!

In the last two weeks I’ve finished the script and thumbnails for the Phineus Xmas Special: Aainst the Giants (I even have a character named Gygax).

I’ve also finished the art on 7 pages! I’ll probably be up to page 17(of 30) by weeks end.
I didi all this while also dealing with the clean up from by basement flood.

We painted the basement(and my studio) over the weekend, we also found carpet, I’m gonna have one sweet sudio!

Cheers!

Barry

Who is in this year in Pittsburgh?

It’s here http://www.517521.com It was way cool last year!

Cheers

Barry

This is a story that’s been a long time coming. Originally it was to be written by and drawn by my good friend Noeland Collins, however life got in the way and Noel wrote part, he then passed the rest of the writing chores off to another good friend Marshall Dillon to finish scripting, and then I took on the art chores.Enjoy the action movie in comic form!

I am running out of buffer! I finished this one in April! I’ve only 65 pages of buffer! Guess I better start drawing!

Barry

>This is a story that’s been a long time coming. Originally it was to be written by and drawn by my good friend Noeland Collins, however life got in the way and Noel wrote part, he then passed the rest of the writing chores off to another good friend Marshall Dillon to finish scripting, and then I took on the art chores.Enjoy the action movie in comic form!

I am running out of buffer! I finished this one in April! I’ve only 65 pages of buffer! Guess I better start drawing!

Barry