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X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #148 - March 2020 Comics & News

Mar 24, 2020

X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #148 - March 2020 Comics & News

After an acknowledgment of the virus, this podcast becomes a refuge where you can focus on the Phantom instead of the worlds crises. This is a bumper podcast as we go through a lot of news and comics to review and discuss. There is some great discussions throughout the two hour podcast as we discuss editing of covers and comics, the famous Golden Eagle story, the end of the Phantoms World series, the ongoing Giant Size series with the cross over stories and new characters plu

Reporting From Lucca Comics & Games 2019 Convention

Anthony Gillies

Nov 4, 2019

Reporting From Lucca Comics & Games 2019 Convention

I was lucky enough to attend the 2019 Lucca Comics & Games Convention in Italy. As written about on Chronicle Chamber it is huge, the largest comics festival in Europe. For those who have attended Sydney Supanova, this is 100 times as big with booths and people. This has been the second time I have attended and following are a bunch of photos and reports from my time at the festival. While the Phantom does not have a huge current imprint in the Italian and Southern Europe mar

X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #125 - Interview with Sal Velluto

ChronicleChamber Team

Aug 4, 2019

X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #125 - Interview with Sal Velluto

The team of Chronicle Chamber chat with Sal Velluto, an Italian American artist who we have admired ever since his work first graced a Fantomen / Frew comic. One thing we were surprised at was he has only been doing Phantom comics, covers and images for 12 years, yet he feels like an elder statesmen who has been at it for years. We learn all about Sal, from growing up in Italy and reading Fratelli Spada comics to working on comics around the world from Egmont / Frew and Herme

X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #124 - July 2019 Comics & News

ChronicleChamber Team

Jul 23, 2019

X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #124 - July 2019 Comics & News

Our determination to keep the conversation under two hours this month was thwarted by a few huge recent announcements in the world of the Phantom! With Billy Zane hitting Australian shores in a few short months, two new exciting collections of Phantom merch, and a raft of reading to get through there's a lot to discuss in the world of the Phantom at the moment! Of course, our ever-reliable Scandinavian correspondent Mikael Lyck also gives us his detailed insight into the late

Remembering Eugenio A. Benny: Phantom Artist from the 1990's

Jermayn Parker

May 2, 2019

Remembering Eugenio A. Benny: Phantom Artist from the 1990's

During one of our conversations with one of the most phan phaved Phantom artists from the modern era in Felmang, we discussed some of his assistants including Eugenio Benni (Anthony Benny), and today we remember his death on this day ten years ago back in 2009. Thank you to Felmang for his time and the words about his colleague and friend Eugenio Benny we present a lasting memory on him who worked with over 25+ Phantom stories in a 13 year period between 1992 and 2005 for Tea

An Interview with the Italian Master - Felmang (Part 2)

ChronicleChamber Team

Mar 23, 2019

An Interview with the Italian Master - Felmang (Part 2)

In the conclusion of this extensive interview with the renowned Italian Phantom artist Felmang, we ask about his favourite stories, his penchant for drawing beautiful women, and creating new stories for Frew. If you haven't read Part 1 yet, do yourself a favour and check it out first! ChronicleChamber: What are some of The Phantom stories that you're most proud of? Felmang: The Lee Falk reprints including Queen Samaris (Fantomen 25/1993 & Frew #1070, #1712), The Mermaids of M

An Interview with the Italian Master - Felmang (Part 1)

ChronicleChamber Team

Mar 19, 2019

An Interview with the Italian Master - Felmang (Part 1)

An entire generation of Phantom phans have grown up on the art of Roy Felmang. Many of us have devoured every beautifully crafted panel, figure and story drawn by the Italian Master who, despite his many pen-names, we most simply know as Felmang. He is credited as the story artist on seven Fratelli Spada stories (published 1967-1970), one hundred Team Fantomen stories (1987-2014) and most recently has started writing and illustrating original stories for Frew Publications in

X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #110 - Top 20 Influencers

ChronicleChamber Team

Feb 2, 2019

X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #110 - Top 20 Influencers

Who have been the most influential people in the history of The Phantom? It's a huge cast of characters to draw from: there's an 83-year continuity in the newspapers alone, as well as countless other comic creators, promoters, editors and phans contributing over the decades. In this podcast, ChronicleChamber takes on the daunting prospect of identifying and ranking the most important and influential individuals in Phantom history. While #1 may seem obvious to everyone, it wil

The Incredible Legacy of Özcan Eralp: RIP

Andreas Eriksson

Jan 15, 2019

The Incredible Legacy of Özcan Eralp: RIP

News have reached us from Turkey that longtime Phantom artist Özcan Eralp passed away on January 12, 2019. His funeral was held in the Kızıltoprak mosque on January 13, 2019. He was 83 years old. When I was a child, my uncle lived with us for a while and drew The Phantom. Some of the best memories I have, was from when he drew and I was watching, as he explained how the images and speech bubbles would fit together. We always had fun, calm and cozy moments, even though he was

Jermayn Parker

Aug 28, 2018

The Latest News from Team Fantomen

Mikeal Sol and his team of editorial staff at Fantomen recently took to Facebook and asked for input and questions, and then took the time to answer them individually. I must congratulate Mikeal and the team for doing so and in reading their responses I learnt a bit and wanted to share it. While many responses may not affect the average Frew (or Australian) reader - ChronicleChamber is an interntional phan website and some of their decisions do effect Frew with their created

Göran Semb & Pidde Andersson Talk World Phantom

Jermayn Parker

Aug 3, 2018

Göran Semb & Pidde Andersson Talk World Phantom

Those who remembered our podcast interview with Göran Semb back in episode 57 would remember that he had his own podcast talking about comics and pop culture. In his latest podcast (& a future podcast) he is joined with Pidde Andersson. In episode 104 they talk all things Phantom from a writing perspective which makes sense seeing both are highly accredited writers and phans. For majority of Australian fans who do not speak Swedish will miss out on what I hear is a great conv

Jermayn Parker

Aug 11, 2016

Phantom's World Coming to Frew

In the latest Frew 1759 that comes out in Newsagents on Thursday the 11th August, Dudley breaks some exciting news about a new series that will start in Frew 1761 called the Phantom's World. It is a series of comics from all around the world that have never been previously published in English. Dudley then mentions that the first of this new series will be another Spada story from artist Angelo Todaro who will also be creating a new Frew cover. Attached is an image that was p

Jermayn Parker

Jun 7, 2016

Three New Frew Cover Artists

The latest Frew we saw Shane Foley debut as a Frew cover artist, over the weekend Gary Chaloner posted his new Frew cover on Facebook and a few weeks ago it was announced that Angelo Todaro is also set to produce a cover. It is great to see more artists getting the opportunity to create Frew Covers. It also makes Frew's Signature Series more of a series worth getting with different artists signatures. Shane Foley and Gary Chaloner are both local Australian artists who are ver

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