Here are some old sketches from my college sketchbooks for Phin and Sara. This was all prepping for what would eventually be “Dismember Me When You’re Gone”, the official first Phineus comic.
There was a lot of playing with looks and poses. As well as a lot of sloppy texture. It’s a fun look back at where I was way back in 1990-1991.
The Contessa is (barring Howie from Teen Wizard) my oldest existing character. I’ve been drawing her ever since I saw Tobe Hooper’s “Lifeforce”.
The Contessa was ported into my comic as a major villain, however, aside from a cameo in “Wake the Dead” she didn’t show up until 2012’s, “Have a Drink on Me”.
I am missing the first picture I made of her, which was confiscated in Middle school, due to nudity. In the class where I fleshed out Phineus, a pre-college art class at CMU, using an early Photoshop like program called Pandavision, I traced a pencil drawing into the program to digitally draw and color it (you can see it below). Keep in mind this was in 1987.
There’s lot’s of boobs involved with her.
I updated the strip I had of this from 2015 to include the newest stuff.
So, on Tuesday I attended the second monthly Draw Together event put on my D.J.Coffman and his wife Ally for Draw or Die Club in downtown Pittsburgh at the Federal Gallery
It was super fun, and I got to hang out with some old friends and met a bunch of new artists to sit, eat, talk and DRAW together. It’s a really fun thing to do, to draw around other people and socialize. As an artist, I usually sit and draw by myself. It’s so much more fun, with company
Draw or Die Club is a club that promotes drawing, every day. For fun, for profit, for mental well-being. It’s awesome. https://drawordie.co/
DJ had a list of prompts to go from and you could roll a dice and see what to draw. I ended up doing one of each and an extra doodle, too.
I’ll probably do this next month, too. And if you’re in Pittsburgh come on down and hang out!
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The idea of “Magician for Hire” started long , long ago as “Phineus 2036”.
I had the idea as far back as 2005. Cole has evolved many times, in look, name and character since then. As has the story.
I really like the curly haired version, and she may be a future, older version of Cole.
Hell MI is a real place, I’ve never been. Walpurgis night is NOT a big thing there, but in my world it really is! Been wanting to do this story for a long time. Enjoy!
Ro is a downer.
Phineus + Magician for Hire 
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