#300 - Phans chat with Mike Manley & Jeff Weigel

Happy birthday to the Phantom & happy anniversary to us celebrating our 300th podcast. We wanted to share the celebration with the Phantom! 

We were joined by Jeff Weigel and Mike Manley the newspaper story artists. Tony DePaul, unfortunately had to cancel due to some health reasons which we briefly cover during the podcast and or you can go to our website for more information.

To help celebrate this milestone with us, we were joined by some of our patreon supporters, CC contributors and other fans from around the world. We had representatives from Brazil, USA and Australia join us and we hope they had as much phun as we did.

If your one of the phans who can only listen to some parts of the podcast, below is a timeline of questions and other topics what we have discussed.

• Introductions: 1 Minute
• Why do we not see the Phantom drinking milk anymore and drinking alcohol?: 4 Minutes
• Tony DePaul and King Features choosing on what to 'keep' and what to rework in phandom: 12 Minutes
• The creators history with the character & their research: 18 Minutes & 30 Seconds
• Do you have a preference drawing period or modern stories?: 25 Minutes
• Why did Jeff Weigel change the Phantom's costume for past Phantoms: 32 Minutes
• Will Mike Manley be using the new Jeff Weigel designs of the Past Phantom?: 37 Minutes
• Other changes to the Phantom costume with the utility belt and the change out of the Mr Walker trench coat: 38 Minutes
• Do you have any input on the sizes of how the strip appears on different mediums from phones to newspapers?: 44 Minutes
• Will we be seeing a new direction of a romantic element introduced to the newspaper stories?: 52 Minutes
• Will "The Spark" Daily newspaper story that is current, be the coming of age story for Kit? 58 Minutes
• How important it is to have an interest in a wide range of art styles & direction: 1 Hour & 5 Minutes
• How learning how to paint landscapes has helped Mike Manley draw his jungle backgrounds: 1 Hour & 13 Minutes
• If you where in charge of King Features, what is the one thing you would do?: 1 Hour & 16 Minutes
• What will happen with the Phantom as it nears public domain?: 1 Hour & 22 Minutes
• What do you think will be your greatest legacy to the character?: 1 Hour & 26 Minutes
• Goodbyes: 1 Hour & 31 Minutes

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