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Canberra local comic store Impact Comics has released their top selling lists for the year 2018, including their Top 100 Superhero trade paperbacks / books, and their Top 100 All comic books. From a Phantom phan's point of view, these lists make very interesting reading! In exciting news for Frew Publications, their two books For Those Who Came In Late and The Man Who Cannot Die (also known as the 70th Anniversary Special) featured prominently in both lists. While many

Have you read the 2019 Frew Annual yet? Every single page contributes to a great collection of past classic and new stories. It's a well printed volume filled with content from great storytelling masters, all wrapped up in a stunning and eye-catching cover. Well done Frew and all the creators! We loved the Annual so much we decided to do an early video review. Join us as we go through every story in detail looking at what was well done and what missed the mark (spoiler - not

There was a bit of a rude shock for Frew readers this week, with publisher Dudley Hogarth using the Message from the Publisher in issue #1827 to announce that prices will be rising in 2019: I feel I should let you know that due to rising print production and postal costs it will be necessary in increase our cover price next year. The cost will go up by 25 cents per regular issue and yearly subs will now be $190. To emphasise the change in price, this means that: A regular

After what has been a very busy month in the CC Team's non-phantom part of their lives we have now published episode #104 of X Band: The Phantom Podcast. In this episode Jermayn, Dan and Steve are joined by author and board game designer Dale Maccanti. Dale shares the latest news relating to The Phantom board game and also joins in with the phellas as they review Frew's 2nd Trade Paperback, "The Man Who Cannot Die". The team also review and talk with Dale about his work on

Please note that we will be touching upon adult themes in this article. "Censoring" in comics is such a negative word that tends to leave a bad aftertaste in everyone's mouth. However, is it always a bad thing? Frew and the Phantom have had a history of censoring. Some of the earliest Ray Moore stories, notably The Phantom Goes to War, were altered prior to publication as a comic book for Australian audiences. For instance, Diana being tied up in front of a cannon on a ship

The latest in Frew's growing stable of artistic talent is Wendall Cavalcanti, an extremely talented artist from Brazil. This interview comes to us courtesy of Professor Gláucio Cardoso, a dear friend of ChronicleChamber and himself a published Frew author, with one of his short prose stories published in Frew's 80th Phantom Anniversary special . Gláucio is also author of the Fantasma Brasil Blog & TV Channel. This interview originally appeared on his blog; Gláucio has gra

When Frew Publications released their 100-page "Femme Fatale" issue earlier this month, we were introduced to a brand new artist that many phans wouldn’t have heard of before: Camillo Di Pietrantonio . Camillo created the back cover for the newsagent release of that issue, #1813. Chronicle Chamber: Thanks for joining us Camillo! Can you tell us a little about yourself... How old are you, and where are you based? Camillo Di Pietrantonio: I'm 29 years old and based out of We

When Frew released their latest incarnation of their Pholio Series (#5 - Frew Heroes), we were introduced to a brand new artist that many phans wouldn’t have heard of before: Daniel Picciotto . Today, ChronicleChamber is lucky enough to sit down with Daniel and find out a little more about the newest contributor to the Frewniverse. ChronicleChamber: Thanks for joining us Daniel! First off, can tell us about yourself? How old are you, and where are you from? Daniel Picciotto

Over the last month, ChronicleChamber and Frew have been running a competition for phans to determine the Best Covers and the Best Stories released by the Australian publishing company in 2017. Well the votes are in and the comp is over - check out all the results in the clip below! Congratulations to Rodger Dean and Peter Vucemillo on winning the Frew Crew badges! Full details and a complete break down of the final results of the Best Cover and Best Story votes will co

In his Message from the Publisher in Frew #1806, publisher Dudley Hogarth relayed some fascinating information about the 'new' cover artist featured on that issue. However, space constraints prevented him from telling the full fascinating story of Jonny Nordlund , so Andreas Erikkson has kindly allowed us to share the tale with you here. Frew readers with a keen eye may have taken a look at issue #1806 and thought that a new cover artist was making his debut. But they woul

We all know about the beautiful and successful For Those Who Came In Late trade paperback released by Frew late last year , and are excited about the prospect of a Pirates of the Red Dragon TPB to be released as a Reward level or Stretch goal in the Kickstarter campaign for The Phantom board game in November 2018. ChronicleChamber has now discovered that Frew will also be celebrating their 70th Birthday later this year with another very unique and special TPB. As we expl

As promoted by Glenn Ford in his Message from the Publisher in Frew's Giantsize #4: it's time to vote for Frew's Best Story and Best Cover of 2017 . Working in partnership, Frew and ChronicleChamber have created this competition for you to enter - specially timed with the release of Frew's digital poster giveaway! (Both the posters you see on this page are available for free download at www.phantomcomic.com.au ) All you need to do is vote for Frew's Best of 2017 , using