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Here Ends 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories'
"Goddess Gambit"– Now available from Phantacea Publications –One of the decades-lost Trigregos Talismans does turn up — in the most unlikeliest of places. Should her soldier successfully claim it; should it lead him between-space to the other two, which it surely will; should he find and thereafter keep all three; he will not only become her champion, he will become the Trigregos Titan. Soon, though, it's not just one goddess willing to make a play for all three. Neither is it just devils chasing them.Top of Page - Top of Section - Downwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx Would-be devil-slayers; devil-eaters such as forever-fickle fays and their earthborn cousins, the Indescribables of Tal's Forbidden Forest, the Grey Land of Twilight, the New Valhallan Bloodlands and Satanwyck, Sedon's Temple ... Devil-hating, demon-loving Hecate-Hellions; Athenan War Witches; long-lived Utopians; recurring deviants; Outer Earth supranormals; Godbadians, Sraddhites, even Janna Fangfingers, a survivor if there was one ... Altogether alive mortal men and women; many of the Hidden Headworld's seemingly immortal, practical deities; and/or the still ambulatory dead, howsoever they're animated ... All - the She-Sphinx, All of Incain, among them - are willing to risk everything they have, or have left, to gain possession of the thrice-cursed godly glories. Like Vetala herself; like Freespirit Nihila, whoever she is; they should know better.... another 20-second teaser for
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Welcome to the latest Web-Publisher's Commentary Page 
If they're not, kindly direct local librarians and neighbourhood booksellers to www.phantacea.com in order to start rectifying that sad situation. Either that or, if you're feeling even more proactive, click here, copy the link, paste it into an email and send it to them, along with everyone else you reckon could use a double dose of anheroic fantasy. It will certainly be appreciated. Help build the buzz. The more books sell, the faster the PHANTACEA Mythos spreads. |
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Individual copies of Libraries, bookstores and bookseller collectives can place bulk orders through Ingram Books, Ingram International, Baker & Taylor, Coutts Information Services, and a large number of other distributors worldwide. E-books on Kindle can be ordered through amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and other amazon affiliates worldwide. An interactive e-book containing the entirety of BookFinder.com lists the latest releases from Phantacea Publications along with a goodly number of additional booksellers carrying them. Also listed therein are almost all of the PHANTACEA Mythos print and e-publications, including the graphic novel and some of the comic books. Another interesting option for the curious is Chegg, which has a rent-a-book program. Thus far its search engine shows no results for phantacea (any style or permutation thereof) but it does recognize Jim McPherson (a variety of them) and the titles of many releases from Phantacea Publications. As for the Whole Earth (other than the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head, at least as far as I can say and always assuming it's still around in what be its 61st century), well, this page contains a list of a few other websites where you can probably order the novels in a variety of currencies and with credit cards. Of course you can always email or send me your order(s) via surface mail. No matter where you live or what currency you prefer to use, I'll figure out a way to fill your order(s) myself. Just be aware that I can only accept certified cheques or money orders. Plus, I'll have to charge an additional 12% to cover Canadian and provincial goods and sales taxes as well as Canada Post rates for shipping. I do use bubble mailers, though. |
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Spring 20121. Introductory Remarks |
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Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos- written by Jim McPherson
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Help build the buzz!Greetings. Welcome or welcome back.
The Kindle-version of No word yet when any of them will be available via any of the other amazon outlets. However, there are instant gratification ordering lynx for some of the amazon sites at the bottom of this and every page throughout pH-Webworld and, indeed, on all the phantacea sites. To order any of the other PHANTACEA Mythos print publications that are still available, including returned copies of PHANTACEA #1, click here or here. For an e-version of If you're ordering from me, I decided not to incur the cost of trying to set up an online payment system since they seem to benefit the intermediary more so than the publisher. That means certified cheques or money orders only please. And that in turn means stamps, an envelope and a trip to either the bank or the post office. Sorry for any inconvenience. Next door is the usual Hestia Housekeeping subsection of 'pHpubs'. Contact me at jmcp@phantacea.com Feel free to ask any questions you might have regarding PHANTACEA. I'll do my best to answer them either directly or right here in 'pHpubs'. 2012 Phantacea Price List
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Hestia Housekeeping| What's New Intro | Latest overview of a PHANTACEA print publication | Today's Topic | Elsewhere (phantacea.com, Travels Website, Serendipity Now) | Conclusion | Top of Page - Carry on with Hestia - On to Today's Topic - Bottom of page ordering lynxHestia Housekeeping amounts to the 'What's New' section of pHpubs. Consequently I always start it with a 'What's Old' link to where I put its previous update. Now that that's done, we can get on with this edition's preview -- and it's a biggie. Well, not a biggie in terms of life-shattering. And, other than to me, I suppose the (Yikes!) 35th anniversary year of Phantacea Publications isn't such a big deal either, though I am somewhat stunned Happy I am, however, and it's primarily because I've just published Verne Andru did the cover. An alternative version of it is reproduced to the left of this paragraph whereas the actual front cover appears in the amazon ordering lynx at the bottom of the page. (Double-click here for an enlargement of the final version of the full cover. One of a number of collages I prepared using its essential graphic elements is here whereas two others rollover here. Ads using one of these last are making the rounds. Preview both lower down this very panel as well as here.)Verne was also the cover artist for As you might have guessed from the preceding, Gambit is in good measure derived from the Soldier's Saga, which began in pH-2. Its Auctorial Prefatory starts here. For fans of the cover I prepared for 2005's version of essentially the same saga, aka "The Trigregos Gambit", fear not. I like it, too. Which is why I placed an image of it underneath this paragraph Which reminds me of another thing I'm happily about to note. As per afore-linked <==here, e-versions of Hit here for the opportunity to attain instant ordering gratification in that regard. You can also hit <==here if you want to order a version of Feel Theo built for Adobe Reader. Usual provisos when ordering from publisher apply; meaning certified cheques or money orders only please. Top of Page - Carry on with Hestia - On to Today's Topic - Bottom of page ordering lynxAs for what else is new in the Spring 2012 update, well, how about a reminder as to what pH-Webworld is all about: Illustrated Mini-Essays on PHANTACEA Characters and Concepts, Online Serials, Synopses, Web Publisher's Commentaries going back to 1996, and more background information than you can shake a currently non-existent search engine at. That in mind, does anyone know how I can acquire and thereafter set up a search engine encompassing my various websites? If so, please advise. Top of Page - Top of Hestia - Restart Preview - On to Topic - Carry on, Hestia - Bottom of page ordering lynx
Will further say that its main menu page is still here and that its latest entry's entitled 'The Wonderful Weather Wizard of Oz'. It's a howsoever belated, not to mention incomplete, effort to finish a travelogue on the trip I took to Australia in the Spring of 2011 (Oz's fall). Have to further admit that most of the reason it's incomplete, and that more travelogues and oddities photo essays have not been forthcoming of late, is that I ran out of space on my website. (Ran out of space on this one too, hence having to amalgamate it with www.phantacea.com as a subdirectory.) I am working on sorting that out such that by the time you read this I might have activated yet another URL (Universal Resource Locator) in order to continue producing ever-so-interesting, at least to me, travelogues. Then again, I might not. Top of Page - Top of Hestia - Restart Preview - On to Topic - Carry on, Hestia - Bottom of page ordering lynx
Its main menu is here. The latest photo essays are here and here whereas the webpage entirely dedicated to Feel Theo, the first PHANTACEA Mythos print publication since 1990's graphic novel, as well as the first e-book from Phantacea Publications produced specifically for Adobe Reader, is here. The one for War-Pox – its successor, though not its sequel, and the opening entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle – is here; the one for Theo's sequel, The main webpage for The first pHant graphic novel, And, as if all of the above isn't already enough, as already noted I've prepared a few ads to mark Gambit's arrival. One's here; another's to the upper left of this paragraph; both reappear here. There's also this one, this one, this one and this one. All are double-clickable. Top of Page - Top of Hestia - Restart Preview - On to Topic - Carry on, Hestia - Bottom of page ordering lynxShould mention I came across an online article I'd read a few years ago in Atlantis Rising, a magazine I've quoted from a few times in Serendipity and PHANTACEA. (For example, most recently, here. An even weirder one -- weirder because it isn't speculative -- is here.) Entitled 'The Other Sun God', it's by Steven Sora and makes a number points about Mithra (pHant's TVM), Mani, the labarum, etc, that I've been incorporating within the PHANTACEA Mythos since the Seventies. A link to it is here. There are also some tasty new material in Serendipity itself. Doubly and trebly odd, not to mention serendipitously appropriate given I'd released (Minus 13 Celsius is exceedingly cold by Vancouver standard; perhaps not so much so in the Rest of Canada north and eastwards.) Too bad it wasn't a display on the undeniable brilliance of phantacea. That would have been over-the-top exciting. Do help build the buzz. Feedback encouraged. As always, good reading. Top of Page - Top of Hestia - On to Mosaic Novels - On to Today's Topic - Bottom of page ordering lynx |
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I'm still at it. 
Should mention that the 'Travels in my Pants' (
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The Launching of the Cosmic Express
Extremely disappointingly, the phantacea Phase One project lasted all of one issue. That'd be pHz-1 #1, the cover of which is reproduced below. It did introduce the comic book world to Ian Fry, however. Hence The consequential graphic novel came out in 1990. It too, at least for the time being, was a one and only. (Should demand warrant, there could be a couple more in relative near-future.) pHz-1 #1 produced some of Ian Bateson's finest hours in comic books. Foremost notably is the enduringly popular cover featuring the Sedonic Eye that, as also per here, I've been using and reusing ever since.
It also produced his version of the Cosmic Express lifting off. Which, in addition to this column, I've used here and aforementioned here. Never did like Dave Sim's version of it very much. As per the also aforementioned, and linked, there and there, I did like his lettering, however.
Still, there's no denying I did well by it then and again in the mid-1980s. Hence my decision to launch pHz-1. BTW, just in case you haven't heard yet, in December 2011 comicattack.net put up complete scans of pH-1 and pH-2 with my permission.
(Spring 2012 finds them here.) As one might expect given the year (1977 & 78), both contain Sim's artwork immediately before and shortly after he commenced Cerebus the Aardvark. Of course they also contain his lettering. As for laying your hands, as well as your eyeballs, on physical copies of these nearly 35-year-old near-masterpieces of youthful exuberance, boo here.
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Animated GIF
Just as there is today 35 Years of Phantacea Publications, there was once 25 Years of dot-ditto. I've preserved its Web-Publisher's Commentary here whereas there's a note about this GIF here. To get this to reanimate on most browsers, hit ctrl-R or F5.Doesn't double-click, though. It did, it wouldn't animate once, let alone again.And if neither trick does the trick, click here and it should.Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Upwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
No Longer Animate GIF
Somewhere in my files I imagine I still have the animated GIF. I just remember its file size was so massive there'd be no point putting it online. I did, I wouldn't have any room left for more images -- and what would pH-Webworld be without scads of shots? Not Anheroic Fantasy Illustrated very much, that's for sure. A number of years ago, I built an Image Map using this collage. It's here. Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Upwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
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Another Animated GIF
I was never too sure what to call pH-Webworld. Clearly, when I made this GIF in the late Fall of 2002 I was in my phantacea on the Web stage. To get this to reanimate on most browsers, hit ctrl-R or F5.Doesn't double-click, though. It did, it wouldn't animate once, let alone again.And if neither trick does the trick, click here and it should.Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Downwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
October 2011 Gambit's Coming -- Promise!
Covers have all too often been a beastly bugaboo for Phantacea Publications. In this respect, recall if you wish (I'd rather not) how I ended up with three mini-novels instead of one 'Thousand Days of Disbelief'. Prepared this ad for V-Con 36, which I attended in the beginning of October 2011. Placed a b/w version of it in its program as matter of pHant-pHact, not to mention, um, investment. The 'Mercy' slice is taken from the long-standing cover I prepared for Gambit's earlier incarnation, "The Trigregos Gambit". The Vetala-figure is by Ian Fry, ca 1988. There's much more on it starting here and here. Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Upwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx |
2012 Gambit's Coming Imbolc Day
Prepared this fellow for pHacebook just in case anyone, as the New Year came and went, was wondering when Gambit was coming out. Evidently, at least to judge from all the emails I received on the subject, no one was. In any event, I forgot to put it up. It is the first time anyone saw snatches of Verne's Andru's wraparound cover for the novel, however. There's more on the slice incorporated in this ad here. Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Upwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
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Gambit's Here -- So are the first Phantacea E-Books
As it happened, Gambit did finally come out on or about Imbolc Day (Candlemas to some; Groundhog Day to at least as many). I couldn't do much to advertise it, though, as I went away within a week and didn't get back until very late winter. BTW, as observed a few times during the course of Hellion, Imbolc Day is properly considered the first day of Spring. The Spring Equinox actually marks Mid-Spring in the same way the Summer Solstice marks Midsummer Day. Verne's Andru's wraparound and front cover are sampled throughout this and other phantacea websites, notably here and here. The main feature on it is here. There's more on the slice incorporated in this ad here. As for the flip side of the PDF, it's the Spring 2012 price list for Phantacea Publications. Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Downwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
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The Sedonic Eye
Got to admit I'm one of many who quite likes the Sedonic Eye. Nor am I the only one who reuses it. Ian Bateson, who came up with it for the full wrap around cover of Phantacea Phase One #1 in 1986/7 reused it when it came time to do the full, wraparound cover for As also per here, he did so rather effectively I reckoned. Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Upwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
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Where it all began -- The Novels
Here's one the latest images compiled and/or newly prepared to mark 35 years (Yikes!) of Phantacea Publications. This one and its much more garish companion next door might find their way to the back covers of Phantacea Revisited should the project go ahead. (Waiting to see if Diamond Comics will distribute them as they haven't yet decided if they'll carry the novels and mini-novels.) Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Upwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
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Where it all began -- The E-Books
Here's another of the latest images compiled and/or newly prepared to mark 35 years (Yikes Redux!) of Phantacea Publications. The "Zero ..." lettering is by Dave Sim, 1977. The Cosmic Express is by Ian Bateson, ca 1986/7. There's more on the head-shapes here. Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Downwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
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pHant Revisited -- D-Brig Suggestion
pH-5 and pH-6 are so long out of print I wonder whether very many are still out there in the non-pHant real world. Probably not since I only have a few left myself and I almost never see them advertised online. Even though I have much of the original pHartwork (as I call it) for pH-5 stashed -- and Verne Andru has apparently kept most of his for not just pH-6 -- I've no desire to reprint them. I am thinking about producing a couple of graphic novels containing the Damnation Brigade storyline and that of Vetala's soldier. My reasoning is they'd compliment I'm planning to produce a sample PDF containing the D-Brig storyline and artwork from #s 1-6 then send it out to potential distributors. Planning, and this mockup for a cover,, which features artwork by Ian Bateson, ca 1987, are about as far as I've got, however. Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Upwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
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The Non-Blue Logo
The blue version of this logo appears on the back covers of every printed novel or mini-novel from Phantacea Publications since 2008. I've told the story of where I got the Pharaonic head-shape on its right many times before. The latest was in the Afterword for War-Pox, which I reprinted here a couple of years back. Appropriately, if peculiarly, given its passing resembling to an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh's head, it's of a parking lot beside the Giza pyramids. Don't believe me, either give it a double-click or have quick read here. Or both. ======== 1st Mythos
I incorporated the Pharaonic head-shape into this collage as well. (Adjusted it recently, too. Forgot it had my old e-address on it. Now it doesn't.) Notes on the bat-beast are here; the aerial shot of the Giza Plateau ca 1929/30 are here and here, among many other places; the hollow-eyed woman are here; the Bellona mask are here and the transparent D-Brig collage are here. Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Upwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
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Launch 1980 - The 1st Entry
This ad, in black and white as well as in colour, appeared online and in a number of print publications back in 2009. The double-click makes the print eminently readable. Dittos of the same essential message can be found here, here, here and on the back of Phantacea Publications business cards. Ian Bateson did the artwork, which I appropriated from the front cover of War-Pox. He based it on one he prepared, but never coloured, for pHz-1 #2, which never got published. A poster for it did, as per here. The internal artwork is here and here. It may also soon be here. Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Downwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
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1987 - The Trigregos Sisters
The inside front cover of pHz-1 #1 featured a cartouche of the joint mothers of the 3rd Generations of Devazurkind. They are the supposedly devil-hating Great Goddesses their father, the Moloch Sedon, abandoned on the second Weirworld before forming the Sedonshem. The Anvil Artificer (Tvasitar Smithmonger) forged the first devic power foci in their honour ca 2000 YD. Hence, their malefic effect on Master Devas, himself included. The inside back cover for pHz-1 #1 is here. Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Upwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
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1987 - Phase One to Come (obverse)
The obverse side of a poster prepared to advertise up-coming issues of Phantacea Phase One. They were sent to the distribution networks listed at the bottom of the page next door <==. The front side of it is next door the other way ==>. The larger characters (Byron's Butterfly, the Lakelands' Saurlord and that eminently forgettable fellow no one can ever remember unless he wants you to) were drawn by Ian Fry. Doc Defiance is by Dave Sim, from pH-2 (which, as per here, was online in the Spring of 2012). Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Upwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
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1987 - Phase One to Come (front)
The front of a poster prepared to advertise up-coming issues of Phantacea Phase One. Needles to slay, they never came out. I incorporated part of Ian Bateson's artwork for Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Downwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
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2011 Pile of POD Publications
Flip side of the 2011 version of the Sedonic Eye postcard. No comic books made it this far. Neither did the graphic novel The latter, though, is now available online for folks who want to use credit cards. The instant-gratification ordering link is here. Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Upwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
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1987 Pile of Phantacea Publications
The inside back cover of pHz-1 #1 listed all the Phantacea Publications available in 1987. As per here, here and here, Ian Bateson re-did the Demon Land v/s Devil Wind graphic at its centre for the cover of War-Pox, which came out in 2009. In case you missed it, the inside front cover for pHz-1 #1 is here. Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Upwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
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2012 Pile of POD Publications
Added The 'paramountcy' language dittoes here, here, here, here and on the back of Phantacea Publications business cards. Top of Page - Top of Topic - Row-by-Row Lynx - Downwards - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx
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Sites with Loads of Graphics:Google.ca supplies what amounts to a pH-Webworld web gallery. Just go to http://www.google.ca/, hit the images link and type in PHANTACEA. Pasting into the address area of your browser the following Url might work as well: http://images.google.ca/images?q=phantacea&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&start=100&sa=N&filter=0 PHANTACEA on the Web is chock-a-block with visuals. Good places to ogle artwork from the comic books and graphic novel are One to Six, 'Twenty-Five Years Plus' and what began as 'The Genesis of PHANTACEA' web-page. Most of the other graphics are scans I did of my own photographs or material I put together using PHOTOSHOP. All the essays are loaded with images. Try out the framed version of the Main Menu. You won't go anywhere else but, then again, you won't get lost either.
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