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Celebrating Forty Plus Years of the Phantacea Mythos- Phantacea One, in September 1977, marked the first appearance of Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos in print -Top of Page Search Engine - Earliest and latest release - Phantacea Publications available in print and digitally - Page Highlights - Bottom of Page Ordering Lynx - More pHantaSites |
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First Phantacea EverPublished in September 1977, Phantacea One was the first time Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos appeared in print. The oversized comic book, with 32-pages of artwork by Dave Sim months before Cerebus the Aardvark, is now available from Phantacea Publications for the Collectors Price of $25.00 plus shipping |
Forty years after pH-1 started Phantacea Phase One
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Latest PhantaceaDouble-click to open a new window containing Games splendid wraparound cover collage More on the cover here and here. Games' dedicated webpage is here |
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pH-Webworld Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos- Exclusively available from Phantacea Publications -Updated versions of two of Jim McPherson's early business cards for phantacea; the Hidden Headworld is as per the image map here whereas the heady pareidolia of a late 1920s, Giza Plateau parking lot near the Egyptian Sphinx is as per here |
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Winter 2017/18Anheroic Fantasy featuring Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos Story selections, synopses, commentaries & web-features written by Jim McPherson Collages, photographs, scanning and web-design by Jim McPherson Credits for additional artwork ascribed in mouse-over text Click here for lynx to the latest instalments of www.phantacea.com, pHantaBlog, pHanta-pHlickr, pHantacea on pHacebook and google+.Phantacea Click here for previous Welcoming Page |
PHANTACEALatest Illustrated Essay: "The Canals of Venice" Latest Writer's Rant: “Pinning for Phantacea” Updated Image Map: "The Hidden Headworld" Serendipity Now: "Hellion's cover revisited" Newest Web Gallery: “Hidden Headgames” -- selected shots Travels Update: "The Streets of London" Featured Story: "Memory's Dilemma has a name" Page and Panel Background Images found on this page Lynx for pHantaBlog RSS: http://phantacea.com/blog/?feed=rss2
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Anheroic Fantasy since 1977Original versions of the front and back covers for Cover collages by Jim McPherson, 2017. Details of the artwork that went into it can be found on the Phantacea Publications website. Both images double-click here. © copyright Jim McPherson (Phantacea Publications) |
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Phantacea Phase Two Oversized Sizzlers- Just in case you suffer from aphantasia and your Mind's Eye's consequently AWOL - | Wraparound collage cover for "Hidden Headgames" | Internal collage for 'The Forgettable Fiend' and Daemonic Royalty | Internal collages and Pyrame's Progress rollover | Green Background Images for 'Acquiring Nihila' | 'Wilderwitch's Babies' background image | 'Dec-Dam' Came in 2016 | Rollover teasers | 'Dest-Dam' Coming in 2018 | Witch Babs Promotional collages | Formerly Sizzling | pH-logos |- Unless they're rollovers, double-click images to enlarge in a separate window - |
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Front Cover for "Hidden Headgames"Two shots of the Northern Lights, Freespirit Scylla, Saurlord, the Fiend, Brainrock lake, Tibetan Death God, Hieronymous Bosch's Highchair of Hell come together of for Games' front cover. Many more details here |
Cover Collages for "Hidden Headgames"B/w and colour wraparound cover collages for "Hidden Headgames". Its main webpage is here. |
Back Cover for "Hidden Headgames"The transparent Lethal Lily graphic tops Games' back cover. In addition to the double-click, the complete text can be read here and here. |
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The Forgettable Fiend SmilesActually he's always smiling. Which is part of the reason why he's often addressed as Smiler. Being a fully fused demon-devil, the only one in existence, he is something of fiend, however; hence the Smiling Fiend |
The Forgettable Fiend RolloverInterior collage that appears at the top of the Auctorial Preamble pages in "Hidden Headgames" couple with the colour version of same |
King Sodom's Queen GomorrahSmiler claims he's a double being, one part Master Deva, a third of Thrygragos Sedon's first born no less, and the other part none other than Daemonicus, whom said Sedon believed he'd destroyed more than two hundred years before the Genesea. Lovely, but lethal, Lily believes she's the Demon Queen to Smiler's King Daemonicus. She's probably right about that, too. |
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"Hidden Headgames" Internal Collage
Double-click for larger version of the Pyrame's Progress promo next door; among other places throughout pH-Webworld, the Siqueiros Nihila, albeit as Harmony, the self-proclaimed Unity of Panharmonium, has long been seen on the Places Peculiar page The Nihila-figure in the Northern Lights tops this collage and its colour version two columns over. Verne Andru's version of Nihila is beside it. Toothy Teoti (Tenochtitlan) is the bat below. His mother (Tsishah Twilight), wearing her demon (Shahiyeda Sunrise), is beneath him to the left, his right. Pyrame, in her silver-haired, usual seeming is to his right and the Siqueiros Nihila is between them. The Pauper Priestess, as she'd also known is blowing on a globe. The mom and daughter figures on top of each behind the subtitle, 'Acquiring Nihila', could well be Sorciere and the Shah-demon as they were during the pH-Webworld serials set in 19/5938. The collection's overall title is along the graphic's right side (our left). The crimson crystal skull behind it might belong to Janna Fangfingers or a Rakshas demon, both of which are mentioned in the final novella, if not before. Then again, it might represent the real Xibalba, not Smiler's Reilly Haddeus in Fangers. Xibalba isn't just the name of the Mayan underground in the Phantacea Mythos. It's also the name of someone's equally Summoning-Aged twin brother. |
"Pyrame's Progress" RolloverPyrame's 'true' form is of a sheathe-clad, otherwise topless woman with a tetrahedral head. Each of its upper three sides features a solitary eye just like on the back of the American dollar bill. Next to her is a frog mask used to represent Aortic Amphitrite (Lady Lemurian), Lakshmi of Lemuria's mother. (Lakshmi was the troublesome <<boo-hiss>> teen who so disgraced the finale of War-Pox and apparently chickened out when she was due to appear at her wedding announcement at the end of Dec-Dam.) Beneath her is the gaping maw of a saltwater crocodile. In part it's there one of the forms Lethal Lily takes on in Games is that of a winged alligator. More anatomically correctly All of Incain shape-shifts into an actual crock howsoever briefly in one of the novellas. The three-eye demon mask, who could be Trawl the Taskmaster, is topped by a scene from Pilgrim's Progress wherein Christian takes on Apollyon the Destroyer. Known as Unholy Abaddon in the Phantacea Mythos, he's who pinned Datong Harmonia to a slab of Brainrock near the end of Contagion. Baaloch Hellblob (Sinistral Sloth) is next along, whereupon come a couple of representations of Devil Death (Yama Nergal) and/or his radioactive Inglorious Dead. The ghostly form could be one of them, or another representation of Primeval Lilith, whereas the other disembodied eye might be Pyrame's, Baaloch's purloined Evil Eye, or possibly one of APM All-Eyes' Little Angels. (APM is one of Bodiless Byron's Secondary Nucleoids. In the absence of Vayu Maelstrom, who's still lost on the Outer Earth during "The Forgettable Fiend", she comes into play as such in a couple of the collection's novellas.) |
Another Internal CollageDouble-click for full colour version of the graphic in the first column in this row as well as the first column in the next one down; the bat, his mom and the crimson skull were taken from the otherwise never used cover for 'Tsishah's Twilight' Graphics in this row also double-click here, here, here and here, among other places |
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"Acquiring Nihila" RolloverColour versions of unused title pages for one of the three intertwined novellas collected in |
Large Version of Green Page and Panel BackgroundTwo of the images that went into this background image are shots of the Northern Lights, which in the Phantacea Mythos, has long been associated with Nihila's precursor, the incomparable Harmony, the original and thus far lone Unity of Panharmonium |
Green Page and Panel BackgroundRepresentations of Freespirit Nihila, Nihila Nereid and Bosch's Highchair of Hell taken from the front cover of |
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Wilderwitch's BabiesThe open-ended saga begins on Labour Day, 2016, even though the Witch actually gives birth on Harmony's Feast Day in 5981 Year of the Dome. Dreams she does, anyhow. |
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Final print coverCover collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2016 |
Wilderwitch goes into labour on Labour Day, 2016Actually she goes into labour on Harmony's Feast Day, 5980. Rather, possibly because Phantast Thanatos has been decathonitized, she dreams she does.
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Cover for digital editionMoai (stone gnomes) not polarized for e-pub cover collage
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Phantacea Revisited 1 & 2Collecting the complete comic book storylines for the Damnation Brigade (pH 2-5) and the Soldier's Saga (pH 1-7) << Front covers for the graphic novel double-click here and here >> |
Phantacea Phase OneFinally a fitting finale to the Phantacea comic book series and the 'Launch 1980' novels << Enlarged versions of the covers for HelMoon are here and here. The Launch promo is here. Download the full-sized, 2-page PDF here >> |
Phantacea Phase TwoAt long last the next phase of the Phantacea Mythos begins with << Print and digital covers double-click here and here >> |
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Dec-Dam's intended front coverFor more on the 'degree of blackness' issue that prevented this collage from becoming the front cover of the print edition see here. Image will likely be used for the e-pub version of the mini-novel. |
Wilderwitch's BabiesThe open-ended saga of Jim McPherson, the creator/writer of the Phantacea Mythos, took many of the shots that went into this promotional collage. Details regarding most them can be found in the graphics section on Phantacea Publications' Witch Babs page |
Dec-Dam's back coverBack cover text can be found here; more on the Brainrock Raven image here; that's a Vancouver BC sunset and, no, the mini-novel is not entitled 'Sunset for Sundown' |
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Destination Damnation- Wilderwitch's Babies 2 -
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Previous Oversized Sizzlers| 'Hel-Moon' Print Cover |'Hel-Moon' Digital Cover | Full-Sized Promo for 'Launch 1980' Story Cycle | pHanta-pHlickr Banner | |
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Helios on the Moon- 2014 Print Edition - Artwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014; back cover text is here; back cover characters, unobscured, are here; excerpts from the novel are here; additional lynx re 'Hel-Moon' are here; ordering lynx are here and here |
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Helios on the Moon- Digital Edition - Artwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014; back cover text is here; back cover characters, unobscured, are here; excerpts from the novel are here; additional lynx re 'Hel-Moon' are here; ordering lynx are here and here
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Promo for the 'Launch 1980' story cycles- Full-Sized Version -
The half-sized version of this promo double-clicks here; covers and additional lynx for the two Phantacea Revisited graphic novels depicted are here; covers and additional lynx for the three books in the story cycle are here; additional lynx and information re the 'Launch 1980' story cycle are here; used in a promotional PDF that can be downloaded here |
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pH-Webworldphantacea logo featuring a purpa demon-dagger and a wooden labrys Graphic double-clicks below; panel double-click is a character collage of old King Cold, who makes highly significant, albeit hardly unexpected, contributions to Hel-Moon's endgame |
Climactic EntryDigitally altered front cover for Artwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014; unadulterated versions here and here, among many another web-place |
Sun-Moon Kissing
Jim McPherson shot this this large woodcut in the Yucatan ca 2012; intended to represent the Dual Entities (Helios = Sol; Mnemosyne = Luna) it appears on the back cover of 'Hel-Moon' as well as forms the basis for this phantacea logo |
Digital PDFs of all the novels, mini-novels, trade paperbacks and the thus far solitary collection of novellas are available from www.phantacea.com starting here. Want to purchase any of the remaining print-publications featuring Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos including the graphic novel, Want to browse? There's nearly twenty years, and counting, of Anheroic Fantasy out here in pH-Webworld. Here's my suggestion on how best to start doing so ==> Artwork, especially artwork from Phantacea Publications(James H McPherson, Publisher), is as attributed in the mouse-over. Unless otherwise noted everything else is designed, composed, photographed and/or scanned in by Jim McPherson I appreciate your interest in the PHANTACEA Mythos online and welcome any comments you might have as to what you like, do not like and/or would like to see in future instalments of 'pH-Webworld'. Jim McPherson |
Miracle Memory's Dilemma has a Name ... Freespirit NihilaPlus, the onetime Unity of Balance or Harmony was a self-pronounced free spirit these days; determined to remain so as well. To top it off, ex-Balance really, really, wanted to embrace her new name for herself – as opposed to the bordering on defamatory Nemesis designation others assigned her when being harmonious wasn’t working very well – and annihilate her triplet-brother, Lord Order. -- from |
Page and Panel BackgroundsThe blue and yellow background images found on this page are variations of the front cover for It was followed a year later with, you guessed it, PRV2:CC went one full issue later (pH-6) than PRv1:DB. It also included, for the first time ever in print, part of the never-finished finale to the first four storylines presented during what was only supposed to be the first phase of the Phantacea comic book series. The credits are listed in the right of this panel. Both the red and pink background images on this page are variations of 'Rendering Reddening', a collage prepared out of some of the Vetala artwork Verne Andru has done over the years for phantacea; an enlargement of original can be found here; Verne also provided the bulk of the artwork for PRV2:CC. Notes for some of the other background collages found on this page be found (and seen) here, here and here; as for why Durer's 4 Horsemen are reminiscent of Thrygragos Lazareme and his firstborn Unities, that's here - Double-click to enlarge - |
Webpage last updated: Winter 2017/18There may be no cure for aphantasia (defined as 'having a blind or absent mind's eye') but there certainly is for aphantacea ('a'='without', like the 'an' in 'anheroic') Ordering Information for PHANTACEA Mythos comic books, graphic novels, standalone novels, mini-novels and e-booksDownloadable order form for additional PHANTACEA Mythos Print PublicationsCurrent Web-Publisher's CommentaryJim McPherson's Worldwide Email Address -- jmcp@phantacea.comPHANTACEA: The Web SerialspHantaJim's WeblogWebsite last updated: Autumn 2015 Written by: Jim McPherson -- jmcp@phantacea.com© copyright Jim McPherson (www.phantacea.com) Websites featuring, at least in part, Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos
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