The Panharmonion Chronicles graphic novel is celebrating one year since its launch at the Sci-Fi London film festival 2023. “Times of London” the first volume in the series written by Henry Chebaane, illustrated by Stephen Baskerville, and published by Supanova Media (ISBN 9781739380205) was dubbed a “sleeper hit” by John Freeman in his esteemed blog “Down the tubes”.
The novel has since been featured in the Camden New Journal, Islington Gazette, Westminster Extra, Camdenist, The Scotsman , Scifi Now and many other publications.
Following an early recognition from a few indie stores like Shift, Gosh! and Megacity the novel has been gaining slow but steady recognition and now has readers in the UK, Europe, India, Malaysia, Canada and the USA.
Since then, the world of The Panharmonion Chronicles has also expanded into electronic music with tracks and videos available on all major international platforms.
The music video “The Panharmonion Chronicles: Times of London” has been nominated and/or won in 23 international film awards, so far this year. It is a short steampunk experimental film written, directed, and acted by Henry Chebaane, based on the world of his own debut fiction graphic novel of the same title.
The video features the author and producer as a Victorian storyteller stranded in his own story: a fictional time-travel music engineer who’s discovered an alien artefact inside a mysterious London townhouse.
The soundscape of the video is the instrumental version of the EDM song “Quantum Blue” , also written by the author under his music producer alias “LX8”. The same used by the main protagonist in the book and a collective name that the author intends to use for collaborations with other music artists around the world.
The forthcoming debut music LP and related graphic novels are about the story of Alex Campbell, a multi-cultural female music composer who struggles with a conflicted identity, a traumatic past and repressed supernatural abilities while fighting a violent supremacist cult through Time.
The novel is a blend of science-fiction, horror, and alternative history; spiced by hints of humour, pop culture and references for music lovers of all genres.
The main artist on The Panharmonion Chronicles series is Stephen Baskerville, while Henry Chebaane is also keen to support and commission additional artists for art pages and special features. “Times of London” has extra pages illustrated by Fabio Jacomelli and Michael Montenat.
“Ghosts of Sound” Vol.2 in the series is currently under production with an expected publication date around June 2025.
Times of London: a sleeper hit slowly waking up
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