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Anyone reading Dudley Hogarth 's Message From The Publisher in the FREW editions published through 2021, particularly in the latter third of the year, will have some small understanding of the difficulties faced by the relatively small Australia publisher through a second COVID affected year. Based in a city that went through over 100 days of lockdown from June to October, dealing with key staff working from home, a disrupted postal services and supply issues, FREW neverthel

Another bumper (and long) X-Band: The Phantom Podcast as we look back at the comics and Phantom related news that have come out in November and December 2021. Sit back with a glass of milk and let us have some phun! Mikael Lyck, Ankit Mitra review comics from Sweden and India and are joined by regulars Jermayn Parker, Stephen East and Dan Fraser. If two hours is too long for you, below is a list of topics that was discussed including their time stamps for you to pick and choo

Phans have long suggested strongly that Frew Publications needed to hire a social media manager to take control of their accounts and promote the character and their products better. It is unfair for Dudley Hogarth and Glenn Ford to do that on top of producing comics and merchandise for us to buy. Finally something has happened and Frew have now hired someone who can help them. This is a quick interview with Trenton Ryder the social media manager hired to take Frew into th

Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker are joined by Moonstone and Frew cover and story artist Lou Manna. It was a great phun podcast as we chatted about his 15+ year career with The Phantom which started off with stories and covers for Moonstone and then a decade later a two part story for Frew that was originally created for Moonstone. For fans you will be greatly excited about a couple of other stories awaiting to be published including one by two phans Peter Steven and Jaime Diaz

Another bumper (and long) X-Band: The Phantom Podcast as we look back at the comics and Phantom related news that have come out in October 2021. Mikael Lyck, Ankit Mitra review comics from Sweden and India and are joined by regulars Jermayn Parker, Stephen East and Dan Fraser. If two hours is too long for you, below is a list of topics that was discussed including their time stamps for you to pick and choose. We do recommend listening to the whole podcast though. Frew Publica

Fantomen editor Andreas Eriksson joins us in episode #201. He introduces himself, his role and how its different to past editor Mikael Sol (His interview in episode #116). After that Andreas goes through what we readers can expect for Fantomen 2022 which includes a new publication released in the first half of next year plus many more tid bits that should excite every reader and phan. One of the cool things was that some past creators will be back - who would you like to see

Jason Paulos, is one of the most prolific Frew creators and we have not had him on since 2016 in X-Band: The Phantom Podcast #65 when we where introduced to the Phantom by Gaslight series. We learn all about Jason including his history of comic creation including great stories of receiving a photocopy of art from Glenn Lumsden (Glenns Podcast Interview) as a kid and photocopying his first comics while stuck in an office job. One of the interesting parts was when Jason showed

We manage to get the podcast under two hours as we review 6 weeks of comics from Frew Publications and Fantomen by regulars Jermayn Parker, Dan Fraser and Stephen East with input by Mikael Lyck and Ankit Mitra. plus all the latest Phantom news from around the world across five continents with new comics from around the world, items to buy for Christmas, a new kickstarter campaign to follow plus much more. Stephen East goes on a long run up to digest the three part saga of the

This picture of the Phantom 21 Generations all together has been one of the most popular images ever since phan Simon Treschow posted it online. That image has been viewed 23,000 odd times as it was shared all through out the Phantom world. The poster is now available at the Frew website here . The story behind the poster is as fascinating as the image itself. In a Facebook post by creator Jeff Weigel he posted: Tony DePaul wrote the currently-running Sunday Phantom storyl

Jermayn Parker and Dan Fraser with input by regulars Mikael Lyck, Stephen East and Ankit Mitra review all the latest Phantom news and comics from around the world across five continents. We review comics from Frew Publications, Regal Publications and Fantomen plus spend time discussing a big month of Phantom news of new publishers and comics to come in the near future, new items to buy plus some new dates for Supanova events in Australia for the back end of 2021. Frew also dr

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

Every since we started this website and the X-Band: The Phantom Podcast one of the most common questions we have received is when will we get to hear from someone from King Features and or Hearst? It has always been a goal for us as we ourselves had a million and one questions that we wanted to ask. After 200 podcasts we got the chance and while we did not get to ask them all, we spent 90 minutes racing through as many questions as possible. A huge thanks must go to Tea Fougn