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Are Frew readers colourblind? Together with Kevin Patrick & Ankit we look at whether Frew Publications should print in colour & the pitfalls

Jermayn, Dan, Stephen & Mikael go over their phavourites from around the world for 2020 including the "Frew Best Of 2020" results as held in the survey ran by Chronicle Chamber. It is a bumper podcast just a tick over 2.5 hours but with 100+ comics and products that came out and 12 categories for us to discuss from 2020, it was not an easy task but we managed. First of all we go over the tale of the tape highlighting where each comic, TPB and book came from and comparing it f

So which did you think were the best Frew issues, stories and covers published in 2020? After a huge response from the phans, the Best of Frew 2020 survey has been run and won. Today we're pleased to be releasing the results, both here and in conjunction with our "Best of 2020" podcast. Once again we were blown away by the entries - over 210 responses in all. It's great to see so many phans, new and old, getting involved. Thanks so much to all of you who took the time to

It may be only be a month since our last comics and news podcast but with a heap of news and four comics to review there is plenty to talk about. As some may only want to listen to parts of the podcast, we have included a time stamp of each topic. Either way, I hope you enjoy the podcast. Comic Reviews Frew Publications Frew 1882: 3 minutes Frew 1883: 32 Minutes 30 Seconds Giant Size 15: 45 Minutes 30 Seconds Fantomen Fantomen 1/2020: 1 Hour 1 Minute Phantom News Mikael Sol S

Frew issue 1877 is an 84 page issue which features the classic daily newspaper story " The Adventures of Lucy Cary " by Lee Falk and Sy Barry . It also features a new story titled " The Outlaws " which is a follow on story with the 19th Phantom, his wife Jane / Janie and his brother in law Dr Bart Cary. This is a new story by Swedish writer Pidde Andersson and Brazilian artist Rafael Dantas . Pidde is not new to Frew readers but Rafael is. In the comic, he was incorrectly

Frew sneaked in a new concept at the back of Frew 1876 with the publication off the short two page story " Heloise on Adventure " which is a 2014 Team Fantomen story, written by Alan Sonne , with art by Kim W. Andersson . It is the first in the The World of the Phantom series of short stories and the first Frew Publishing has published in their comic. With the " Heart of Darkness " saga soon coming to end, it is important to see what Frew are going to do with the left over

In Frew 1875, Dudley Hogarth announced that Frew Publications are now having their comics distributed through a major Australian supermarket chain in Coles . In the Message from the Publisher Dudley said the comics are now distributed in 500 stores Australia wide. Approx 80% of all Australians shop at either Coles and Woolworths (the other main Australian supermarket chain). According to the Coles website they have 2,500+ stores in Australia and 21 million visitors to their

Luca Erbetta is one of the few artists who draws covers for Frew Publications and also Egmont and as you will learn he also has a new cover coming out soon for a third Phantom publisher. In this podcast we learn all about Luca, his history as an artist for European and USA publishers and his blossoming Phantom career. Luca goes through in detail his 9 Phantom covers and other illustrations including commissions, the Frew / Phanfare Trading Card and his past Phantom costum

We attempt to identify Frew's Censoring Artists. First up is two pages of censored artwork from Frew issue #355. Can you help us?

Bild & Bubbla has a long tradition of writing about the Phantom in their magazine. We have previously written about the magazine and some of their earlier covers here. In the latest issue of Bild & Bubbla (issue 222) there are two pieces about The Phantom in Australia and its influence by Swedish creators. One of the articles is written by Andreas Eriksson and is about the history of the publication from the debut in Australian Women's Mirror in 1936 all the way to prese

From 1992 - 2016, Frew Publications produced 31 issues of the Phantom every year. When the new Frew Crew of Glenn Ford and Rene White took over in January 2016, they implemented an annual publishing schedule of 28 regular issues regular issues, but also started bringing in new titles like Phantom's World , Kid Phantom and also reprised Giantsize Phantom . As we head into 2020, we have become aware that the number of regular issues per year will drop again, down to 26. No

When we said back in the show notes for #132A, "You knew that having Billy Zane come to Australia meant that you were going to get bombarded with podcasts, right?", we had no idea that we'd be wedging in an actual sit-down podcast interview with the man himself (#133) . As it turns out, we did! That's meant that a bit of a delay with the Brisbane recordings coming out, but so be it! A word of warning - the Phantom panel with the Frew guys ( Glenn Ford, Jamie Johnson, Andre