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Dec 31, 2019

An Interview with Luca Giorgi

Luca Giorgi is an Italian comic artist who first came to the attention of the broader Phantom community as the cover colourist of Frew #1800, that memorable 2017 Christmas-themed cover by Massimo Gamberi. Luca has since worked closely with Massimo on Phantom projects on several occasions, including colouring the cover of the well known Fumetto #106 [right] as well as Fumo di China #280. Luca also coloured Massimo's carton card from the 2019 The Phantom Gallery: Series 2 tradi

X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #126 - An Interview with Alex Saviuk

ChronicleChamber Team

Aug 16, 2019

X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #126 - An Interview with Alex Saviuk

In this episode we are excited to be joined by the one and only Alex Saviuk. Alex is an accomplished and experienced Phantom artist, and in fact boasts the extraordinary achievement of having worked for the greatest variety of The Phantom publishers of any artist in history! His Phantom credits (both covers and stories) include: Marvel, Egmont, Moonstone, Lightning Strike Comics, Frew, Hermes Press, and even the King Features' syndicated Sunday strip! Over the course of this

Mythos Exclusive: May 2019 Release Date plus More News

Jermayn Parker

Apr 28, 2019

Mythos Exclusive: May 2019 Release Date plus More News

A lot of phans from Brazil, South America and around the world are very excited about what Mythos has announced. Thanks to our discussions with editor Julio Oliveira and a second release article by Mythos, we are now aware that their new publications do not stop at their first release of Daily stories in the four issues they have already announced (You can read that here). We can now say that they will also publish eight editions containing the modern Sunday stories of the Gh

ChronicleChamber Team

Feb 23, 2019

2019 LFMBEC Guest Announced

The 2019 Lee Falk Memorial Bengali Explorers Club (LFMBEC) special guest has finally been officially announced in an email LFMBEC patron Richard Fry sent to members. Jeff Weigel, current Sunday strip artist, will be the main guest speaker! It's a great coup for the LFMBEC to have a current newspaper strip artist in attendance - this will be the first time since Terry Beatty spoke at the 2015 dinner. It hasn't exactly been a huge secret that Jeff was planning to be in Sydney A

ChronicleChamber Team

Jan 26, 2019

Best of Frew 2018 - Phan phavourites!

So which were the most popular Frew stories and covers published in 2018? After a huge response from the phans the Best of Frew 2018 survey has been run and won, and many of you will have already heard the results on Episode #109 of X-Band: The Phantom Podcast. However today we're releasing the full set of results in written form so you can sit back and take it all in at your leisure! We were blown away by the entries - over 300 responses to the survey just about melted down

New Sunday Strip features New Title Panel

Dan Fraser

Nov 18, 2018

New Sunday Strip features New Title Panel

Sunday artist Jeff Weigel has begun a new tradition for the newspaper strip: a brand new title panel unique to each individual story. Jeff came on board the Sunday strip midway through Sunday #185 The Phantom is Everywhere when Terry Beatty surrendered to work/life balance and recused himself from the strip. ChronicleChamber was lucky enough to speak to Jeff not long after he started on the strip, in Episode #70 of X-Band: The Phantom Podcast. In that chat he revealed that he

X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #95 - Newspaper writer Tony DePaul

ChronicleChamber Team

May 10, 2018

X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #95 - Newspaper writer Tony DePaul

Tony DePaul has been the writer of The Phantom newspaper strip and official keeper of Phantom lore since Lee Falk's death in 1999. This interview is a fascinating insight into his personal history, his passion for our favourite purple comic book hero, and the possible future of The Phantom. It's a fascinating chat with a fascinating man - we know you'll enjoy it... Happy Phantoming! #XBand #Podcast #TonyDePaul #KingFeaturesSyndicate #MikeManley #JeffWeigel #UlfGranberg #Semic

X Band - Episode #66: June 2017 Comics and News

ChronicleChamber Team

Jun 12, 2017

X Band - Episode #66: June 2017 Comics and News

In a podcast of epic proportions, Jermayn, Dan and Steve discuss the recent news in the Phantom universe, and boy is there a lot to talk about! Of course, the resignations of Tony DePaul (author) and Terry Beatty (artist) from the newspaper strips lead the conversation. Then the boys also dig their teeth into all the new Phantom merch that is available now or released at Supanova, news from publishers around the world, and the latest from both the Phantom Art Show and Hero Co

Dan Fraser

May 8, 2017

New Sunday Artist – Jeff Weigel

Well we didn’t have to wait long to find out who has replaced Terry Beatty as artist on The Phantom Sunday strip! Within 24 hours of Terry’s announcement of his retirement from the strip, fellow American artist Jeff Weigel had raised his hand, also using Facebook, posting his version of the Sunday splash panel and announcing: Since today Terry Beatty officially announced his decision to step away from the Sunday Phantom newspaper strip, I guess it's now okay to tell you who's

Jermayn Parker

May 7, 2017

Terry Beatty Quits the Sunday Strip

Today we would've probably all seen the sad news that Terry Beatty has drawn his last Sunday strip, ending a five-year reign with the character we have an unhealthy addiction to: The Phantom, the Ghost Who Walks and the Guardian of the Eastern Dark. The Sunday page in newspapers today (below) is his final contribution to the strip. You can read Terry's official statement on his Facebook page, and with his permission we have reposted it here: Are you sitting down? This will co

The Transcript of our First Podcast Interview with Sy Barry

ChronicleChamber Team

Jan 27, 2017

The Transcript of our First Podcast Interview with Sy Barry

The following is an edited transcript of X-Band: The Phantom Podcast – Episode 53 “Our Interview with Sy Barry”. The complete, unedited and unabridged version was made available to Patreon subscribers on January 8th. Features of the full transcript include: The complete and unedited voice of Sy Barry Pre- and post- interview chat from the CC Team Sy's thoughts on Australians Comic strip artists living the rock star lifestyle Sy's attitude to the Horror comic genre popular in

X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #53 - Interview with SY BARRY

ChronicleChamber Team

Dec 22, 2016

X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #53 - Interview with SY BARRY

In a very special X-Band: The Phantom Podcast, Steve, Jermayn and Dan are privileged to be joined by living legend Sy Barry. As any self-respecting phan knows, Sy Barry drew The Phantom Daily and Sunday newspaper strips for 33 years from 1961 to 1994, and is widely recognised as the artist that gave the Phantom his modern look. Over the course of an expansive conversation, Sy opens up about: his artistic influences over the last 75 years, working with his brother Dan, how he

PREORDER The Phantom and the Voodoo Witch Doctor

Jermayn Parker

May 1, 2016

PREORDER The Phantom and the Voodoo Witch Doctor

Atlantis Models has officially re released the 1965 Phantom and the Voodoo Witch Doctor model kit. According to their website and Facebook this should be released in June 2016 and is current available for pre order at a reasonable price of $39.98. In looking at photos of their Flash Gordon set it comes as close as possible of the original 1965 Revell kit with their logo instead of the Revell one. Also worth noting is that this includes the box and instructions unlike the othe

Joe Douglas

Nov 7, 2015

Lothar to Guest Star in Sunday Strip

Current artist of the Phantom Sunday strip Terry Beatty, has stated that Lothar will guest star in the next story. Exactly when this story is set to start or what Lothar’s involvement will be is unknown, but it’ll be very interesting to see where it goes. #TerryBeatty #Lothar

ChronicleChamber Gathering @ Supanova, Sydney

Joe Douglas

Jun 14, 2015

ChronicleChamber Gathering @ Supanova, Sydney

It’s almost Supanova time again and that means another ChronicleChamber phan Gathering! Each year at the Supanova pop culture convention in Sydney, Australia plans from all over the country gather together to share their love for the Ghost Who Walks. This year is of course no different and the convention is less than a week away! The details for the Sydney convention are as follows; June 19-21 Sydney Showground, Olympic Park Yes, the convention runs for three days, however