Phineus: Magician For Hire

A write up in the Trib about my comic and my attendance at the Pittsburgh 24 hour comic day!

A write up in the Trib about my comic and my attendance at the Pittsburgh 24 hour comic day!

I have been tearing it up this year, completing nearly 200 pages, my best year yet!

Here’s the breakdown…

Sara: One shot Cover + 30 pages 31
Phin Boy Wiz Cover + 15 pages 16
Weirdlings Cover + 52 pages 53
The Path Backup 10 pages 10
Zombiehaus Cover + 11 pages 12
Xmas Special Cover + 30 pages 31
Chupacabra Cover + 16 pages 17
Comic Remix 1 page 1
Creephunter Cover + 11 pages 12
Phin and Cthulhu 1 page 1
Jaguar Paw 4 pages 4
Magic Council 3 pages 3
191

I feel like I failed if I don’t reach the ambiguous 200, by years end. Is that stupid? I duuno. I just hope next year is as productive!

Barry

So, as I was counting how I was doing with my page count so far this year (40 so far), I got to thinking,just how many pages I have done in my adult life.

Now I drew a lot in Middle/High School, but none is very professional. So I counted all the pages I’ve done since leaving High School. This does not count sketches or most pinups. It counts story pages, covers and the odd professional pinup. It also doesn’t count non comic artwork.

As a rough estimate I’d say @ 800+ pages done since 1988. Keep in mind 199 of those were done last year and another @ 100 the year before. My output is escalating. And I gotta say, my quality has vastly improved as well. Something to be said for the more you draw the better you get.

As Chuck Jones once said to me,” Every artist has a certain number of bad drawings in them, the key is to get those out of the was early.”.

Practice , practice, practice.

Rock on…

Barry

Strumhaus will be in attendance at thePittsburgh Comicon this weekend April 25- 27th. Brian Babyok form Weirdlings, Chaos Punks Phineus, Scott Hedlund from Chaos Punks and Orenda, Dan Greenwald from Evergreen will be there, I’ll be there Saturday! Come visit!