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In the latest issue of Fantomen (16/2021) we have learned that the winner of best Fantomen cover goes to Henrik Sahlström and his...

Glenn Lumsden is a very popular Australian artist who first drew comics in Australia back in the 1970's. He was one of the first Australian artists to draw a full length Phantom story, has worked for several American comic companies including DC and Marvel. Some of the topics we touch upon are: History of the Marvel Phantom series including the amazing lengths he went to to get it right including mapping out the whole car chase and even his trip to Africa. History on comics f

Kari Leppänen has been drawing Phantom comics since the late 1970's. For many of the phans reading this interview, Kari has always been...

Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker continue the podcast with #192B discussing all the news from May and June 2021. This follows the comics from May and June 2021 which can be found here. At the end of the podcast after discussing the news, we talk to Ankit Mitra who is a Chronicle Chamber contributor but also a cover artist for Regal Publishers. He talks about Regal and their struggles gaining a foot hold in the India market with COVID still reeking havoc in the country. Please ma

Mikael Lyck is joined by regulars Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker in reviewing the latest comics and news from Australia, Sweden and around the world. With the team at Chronicle Chamber releasing other topical podcasts it meant the normal practice of a comics and news podcast once a month did not happen. Here we present a review of the comics from May and June. Episode #192B will contain all the news from the past two months. We also discuss the latest happenings with the Sunda

Some good news for Melbourne phans is that the Melbourne Comic Con is still planned to go ahead and it will feature a number of Phantom...

Even with Frew not attending Sydney Supanova and the effects of COVID-19 still reeking havoc with travel there is still plenty to do in...

In Frew 1893, Dudley Hogarth the Frew publisher in his Message from the Publisher suggested that the short story "The Future Phantom: Forever" may be worth a podcast. We listened and here is our thoughts of the 8 page story by Andrew Constant and Massimo Gamberi. To begin with we go over every story and future Phantom which includes the 27th from the Defenders of the Earth TV Show, the 24th from the Phantom 2040 TV Show and a host of others from publishers like Fantomen and D

Heiner Bade (born 1949) from Hamburg is an unusual phenomenon among comic artists one who is unknown to many fans in his own country and...

If you love classic Lee Falk, Wilson McCoy and Ray Moore, this is a must listen (or watch) Podcast as we chat with two Australian creators whose work is heavily influenced by their legendary work. Frew #1892 was released May 6 2021 and features the second Phantom story by Matt Kyme. His first Phantom story was solely created by him. For this second story Shane Foley was brought in by Frew Publications to ink and enhance the original art. If you are wondering why Shane was bro

Tony DePaul recently dropped a bombshell on how one error made by artist Paul Ryan in the Daily newspaper story "Chatu's Fate" made Tony...

Anthony Spay's first story appeared in the 2019 Fantomen Christmas album and in no time he has seven completed stories to his credit. In this episode Mikael Lyck joins Jermayn Parker as we go over each of his stories and learn interesting things about Anthony like how he got the job at both Frew and Fantomen. Anthony is one of two artists you have created new stories for both publishers - the other is Joan Boix. Is there anyone else we have missed? Anthony Spay before his wor