I am diligently working away on Phineus pages. I am attempting to get a buffer up. Trying to get at least an issue ahead of what’s posted on the sites.

You, good Patrons of Patreon, will get to see all the Phineus pages as soon as I get them done.

In addition, as I get caught up with this venture, I will get back to Phineus: Teen Wizard, for all patrons to read.

I will also be getting back to bonus storues, that will only be available in trade paperbacks, PDFs for sale and to 2nd level patrons, as I finish them. I have to Hollow Earth related bonus stories in the hopper (my brain). I just need to get the buffer ramped up.

I am doing all this to make it worth your while to support me every month.

I appreciate all your support, and if there’s anything else you’d like to see, let me know!

I’ve added a new reward! A monthly bag (or box) of swag for just $25 a month. The exact contents will vary from month to month, based upon what I can pull together.

You’ll get a variety of printed comics, ashcans, sketchcards, original art, sketchbook pages, toys, trading cards, gaming supplies, baked goods, you name it.

I will post, once a month what will be in this month’s Loot Bag.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/loot-bag-4448378

So, this year marks the 25th anniversary of the first issue of Phineus. 66+ issues in the same continuity and story.

The first issue was created for a comic and drawing class in my senior year at Edinboro University in 1991 . I had been fiddling with the character, Phineus, since high school.  Phineus has his 30th birthday, next year, himself.

I am proud of and addicted to this character and this world. I plan on many more years of the comic.

I will be celebrating the anniversary all year, by finishing up Hollow Earth in the next months, posting a true epic fan comic (Werewolf Conundrum by Noeland Collins – posting, now at Patreon) & doing a 25th Anniversary commemorative comic in the fall (which was when the first issue was created).

As always, I gladly accept fan art and/or fan fiction… hint* hint*.

So, keep coming back, check out all the great stuff I am creating. You can also check out my Patreon, toss me a couple bucks and gain access to all the bonus stuff over there.

Word.

Barry

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All the Trade Paperbacks collected in a MEGA BUNDLE on sale for $25!!

http://www.drivethrucomics.com/product/173669/Phineus-64-Kringles-Last-STand?force_not_tooltip=

Kringle’s Last Stand PDF download is up for sale, on sale for $1.11 at Drivethru comics! In PDF and CBZ!

Got a great review over at Indy Graphic Novels from Paul Schmitt. Well written, nicely thought out. Go check out his blog, read up on the books he bought and go buy some books from me!

Go to Indy Graphic Novels and read the article!

To order books from me go to our book store, here:

A new PDF download is available at our Drive Thru Comics webstore!

Both PDF and CBZ Formats.

http://www.drivethrucomics.com/product/167785/Phineus-63-Buried-History

Volume 8 of my Complete Phineus Trade Paperbacks is up for download at Drive Thru. All the books will soon be up on Amazon, for sale as Kindle and printed books, soon.

http://www.drivethrucomics.com/product/167556/The-Complete-Phineus-Volume-8

My life with working two jobs (and specifically the one job is kicking my ass right now), I’m gonna have to change my update schedule a bit for a little while.

I’ll be doing two pages a week for a while and the Teen Wizard stuff up on Patreon until I can buffer up again.

I may have another page up, later this week, then Tuesday and Thursday updates for a while after that.

Sorry to let you guys down, but life sometimes gets in the way.

Word.

Barry

Been prepping comics for this. All the books will soon be up on Amazon, for sale as Kindle and printed books, soon.

A new “Buried History” page will be up, tomorrow!

Here is a commission I did today at Wizard World Pittsburgh. Want one of your own? Come on down and get one from me at the show. Or, you can email me and I’ll do one via mail and Pay Pal.

Well, roughly 28 years ago I created Phineus and Sara. They were not the same Phineus and Sara that we see today. They weren’t married, they didn’t work together, per se and Phineus wasn’t even human.

The characters came about from watching too much “Highlander”, playing too much Dungeons and Dragons and reading too much of Matt Wagner’s “Mage”.

Initially, Phineus was supposed to be some sort of extra-dimensional, magic wielding hero. He was sent to our world to track down and destroy demons whom had some to our planet to take over.

Sara was to be an innocent bystander, stuck in the middle of this battle, that Phineus was there to save, which is bullshit, because Sara doesn’t need saved by anyone.

but, you can see what my fevered, 17 year-old brain was grasping at.

Aside from random sketches and character designs, the Phineus story didn’t get very far in this vein.

During college, I had a few false starts. Phineus as an art student who discovered he had powers. A street mage who fought bad guys, randomly. A half-assed super hero, of sorts.

It wasn’t until my senior year of school, when I took a comic drawing class that I found where Phineus would go. I was introduced to Will Eisner’s “Comics and Sequential Art” that everything just started to fall into place.

I was required to draw an 8 page story. I did a 20 page issue that ended up being the very first Phineus issue “Dismember Me When I’m Gone” (a nod to Bill Willingham’s Captain Cadaver from “Elementals”).

I did the story, for class, to finally get it out of my head. It turned into a 24+ year obsession.

As I continued to write about these characters, I borrowed the “Big Trouble In Little China” method of throwing everything cool you can think of into the story and it’ll probably work. So far, it’s worked pretty well.

Going forward, I worked on other stories, with other people. Brian Babyok was a long-time contributor. I worked on many stories with him Pan, Khosian Protocol, The Creators and Weirdlings. I’ve worked with Mike Woods on Creephunter and Pack of Lies: A Pocket Pulp Mystery. I’ve done other people’s art, sketch cards and have always come back to Phineus.

This world is my Star Wars or Hogwarts. I have a very long story plotted out. I will always tell in, because I can’t NOT tell it. It’s hard-wired into my brain, at this point.

My characters grow and age. The world changes. My art and writing get better. It’s a road map of my growth as an artist. It’s fun and I hope everyone enjoys it.

Edit Again: I will be posting commemorative guest art from other comic artists as they get it to me. I have some exciting stuff coming, so watch out!

An idea by a friend of mine, Dan Butcher and his BRILLIANT comic, Vanguard.