Update

Hiya!

I have been crazy busy! Sorry for no updates in a while!
This weeks projects include…

I have all this weeks Weirdlings strips done, I’d like to get started on next weeks as I am in a wedding this weekend and it’s sucking up most of the weekend, when I usually do the strips.

Also, as my page a week, I am working on the artwork for the new cover of The Phineus Complete Vol 1 and Vol 2. I hope to get the black and white work completed this week, and color it next week. I’ll be going to press soon with these and I am submitting them both to Dark Horse and want them to look really killer!

To that end I spent quite some time over the weekend prepping older pages for both web and printing. Not very glamourous stuff, but very time consuming! All my older stuff has been cleaned up and Vectroized! Looks really spiffy and clean!

I also had to reconstruct the covers from Vol 1 issues #4 and #5. I didn’t have the originals and had to piece them together and clean them up!

Urrgh!

Barry

>Phineus: Boy Wizard

>I have finished the script for Phineus: Boy Wizard # 1. It’s a story that takes place in 1981, sort of an origin story if you can call it that. It’s also a pre-cursor to more stories of Phin as a boy and his adventures before he became an adult Mage.

I have page # 1 and 2 finished. You can check out the preview pages , and all my new stuff and sketches at my blog at http://phinmagic.livejournal.com .

Arrrrrgh!

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Phineus: Boy Wizard

I am just finishing up the script for the 12 ish pages of the Phineus: Boy Wizard story. Pretty funny, all kinds of Exorcist jokes.

This will be the EXTRA in the upcoming Complete Phineus Vol #2 that will be out soon along with a second printing of Phineus Vol #1, which will have some new extras including new cover art and other goodies. Both will be available online , later this fall, from Comixpress!

Fun stuff!

Barry

Phineus: Boy WIzard

Here’s the second page of Phineus:Boy Wizard, it’s part of a web strip I’d like to do if I can ever find the time, this story involves the meeting of Phin and certain priest from an earlier Phineus story. SHould be fun!

You must watch these!!!

God I love Seth Green…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Lx016uPSo

And this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRUDJ1ncXN0&NR

Phineus Boy Wizard #1

Hello, all.

Here is the first page of Phineus:Boy Wizard.
Expect a lot of Star WArs talk as that is all I used to do at 11, that and Charlies Angels!

Barry

>Backwaters of Mysticism

>I just posted the complete rules for Backwaters of Mysticism, a role playing game created by John Burris and myself. Included are the basic rules, we have an expert set in the works and hop to get these for sale soon !

Barry

Backwaters of Mysticism

I just posted the complete rules for Backwaters of Mysticism, a role playing game created by John Burris and myself. Included are the basic rules, we have an expert set in the works and hop to get these for sale soon !

Aldus Maycombe

Thiis quite good from one of my neighbors over at Comicgenesis. I kind of describe it as Phileas Fogg meets Dr Who down the rabbit hole. Check it out at http://aldus.comicgen.com/ .

Good Stuff

Barry

Psychic Girl Draws Faces of The Dead

This was a ballpoint pen drawing study I did for a piece called “Psychic Girl Draws Faces of The Dead”. I got the name from the title of a National Enquirer article. I eventually did the whole piece 23 x 36 in Ball point pen, used 8 of the damn pens before it was finished.I always liked this first drawing best.

Cheers

Barry

Stuff

It was a busy weekend… I got a lot done. It has a lot to do witht the fact that I get a 4 day weekend EVERY WEEK. Yeah, this week I started working 3 12 hour shifts, 5 PM – 5:30 AM T, W ,TH. Fri- Mon off, Yeah!

I know I haven’t done a new page in a while, but I got Phineus: Boy WIzard page #1 done, I’ll post it later this week.

I also got all this weeks Weirdlings strips done by Monday, I taught myself how to animate a gif and made two Phineus animations.. next up a Weirdlings animation! Mmmm…tentacles!

I hope to bang out the Weirdlings by Friday-ish and get a couple pages done over the weekend.

Catch ya later!

Barry

>Busy

>I ve been working all weekend on new stuff, I got all the weeks Weirdlings strips done, two animated gifs and my first page of Phineus:Boy Wizard is pencilled and half inked!
Busy weekend!

Phinimation

HEy , all. I’m an animating idiot! I did another animated gif trailer of Phineus, I have it up at http://phinmagic.comicgenesis.com/ head over and check it out!

>Welcome to Phinmail!

>Greetings, This is th new comment interface for this site!

Blog away!

Barry

Terror # 21

Here’s the last page of The Terror of Leap Castle. I hope you liked it. It was fun, but enormously frustrating from the writing aspect. It took me forever to figure how to bridge the beginning and the end!

Next week I’ll show you some of “Phineus: Boy Wizard”.

Cya

Barry

new friendly LJ

If you are my friend as phinmagic , and would like to NOT be Blogged over the head with my comic stuff, feel free to unfriend my as Phinmagic and friend me as barrylinck
(I know it’s not very original).

The phinmagic LJ will be for my comic stuff, linked to my website, the barrylinck LJ will be more friendly!

Cheers!

Barry

Terror OF Leap Castle # 20

Here’s the next to last page of “Terror”. I am in the middle of drawing a new Sara page and a new Phineus page, I hope to have both done this week as well as , of course the 2 new Weirdlings pages.
I think, I’m finally done, for now with the new site, so I can get back to business. 😉

Cya
Barry

My new site

Hello, all. I have finally gotten the “New” Phineus site over at Comicgenesis tweaked the way I want it, AND I have set up shop at http://www.cafepress.com/phinstuff to sell merchandise. Soon I’ll have my online shop for printed books. I just gotta do it a little ata a time. I really need to be done with all this set up and get back to what I want to be doing, drawing!

Please head on aver and check things out. I appreciate it!

Barry

The new site and my shop!

Please head on aver and check things out. I appreciate it!

Barry

Weirdlings Print!!

Hello, all. I just couldn’t resist showing this off to you, all. Brian has been putting together the various strips, readying them for our first print compilation, due out this fall. I think the strips, together as a comic page , look really freaking sweet.

Barry

Werewolves

Terror # 19

Nearing the end of this one, I dug this page. As if it were on the monitor and was being narrarated by our heroes!

Have fun!

Barry

SCIENCE!!!

There’s a funny reference to Thomas Dolby, today over at Wapsi ( http://www.wapsisquare.com )!

I just sat down and planned out the next year of my art. Sept 06- Aug 07. I needed to figure this out, with my new site up and a fully operational space station ( http://phinmagic.comicgenesis.com ), I have all of my current stuff updating, in order, from 1991 to today, 5 days a week over there. It will take the site a little over a year to catch up to me , now.

I had to scope out what I needed to do to give a buffer and allow me to still update 5 days a week after I catch up. I need to finish 2 and a half pages a week, that includes 1 page a week of Weirdlings(3 strips = 1 full page), and the rest Phineus. I will be designing the pages so that they can be posted as 2-3 strips, thus allowing me to fill a week with two pages. Now, before you say, “hey that’s cheese”, keep in mind I have a day job and two young kids, AND I am toying with the idea that they may be in COLOR, so there’s that. We’ll see.

So, 2.5 pages a week, that’s 130 pages in the next 12 months. That’s like the equivalent of a bi- monthly comic! Wish me luck!

Barry

OLD Phin and Sara

These are the two earliest pics I have of Phin and Sara, how eighties can you get. I don’t know if I even had names for them , yet. I did these waaaay back in 1987, I was still just a kid. Phin is going to be 20 next year! WOW. Gonna be a big year, and it should be my most prolific and productive!

Cool things coming!

Barry