Comic Book Yeti's Cryptid Creator Corner- A Comic Book Interview Podcast

Today we got Steve Orlando on the podcast. Steve is phenomenally busy right now so I wanted to focus on just a couple of his current projects. I've been keeping up with his ongoing Marvel Comics series The Scarlet Witch so we dive into what attracted him to the character in the first place and mutually discover our comics foundations in the West Coast Avengers, and segue right into discussing Exor...

I love comics. If you've listened to even one past episode, you know this. I bring this up because today's episode is a perfect example of why I love comics so much. Paper Planes from Mad Cave Studios Maverick imprint is a coming-of-age Summer camp story about friendship that is at the top of my list of favorite graphic novels I read so far this year. Leighton and Dylan, the two main characters, f...

I’ve wanted to highlight one of the often overlooked but critically important roles in comics creation for some time now, that of the editor, so I reached out to Daniel Chabon, a Senior Editor with Dark Horse Comics to hopefully help me do a little bit of that and to talk about some of the incredible work Dark Horse has been promoting recently. Daniel has worked and is working on some of the bigge...

The recording of today's episode was such an unexpected delight! Look, I know that comics are a visual medium. I understand that. But I like words, or at least I thought I did until I sat down with Grim Wilkins' Mirenda. It is a gorgeously illustrated and largely silent comic that I was enraptured by. Grim is back and bringing the follow-up Mirenda and the Golden Horns to Kickstarter. Grim and I c...

Eric Palicki has ventured into the virtual Yeti Cave to talk about returning to the world of Black's Myth with Black's Myth: The Key to His Heart. Issue #1 came out June 21st (it's phenomenal) and issue #2 just dropped on July 19th. There's no better time to find out what is going on with everyone's favorite werewolf private eye and her Djinn sidekick. Plus Eric talks a little about his Kickstarte...

Headed to San Diego Comic Con? If so, you aren't going to want to miss this episode with Charlie Stickney. Charlie discusses his plans for this year at SDCC including the White Ash booth and a Kickstarter booth as well. Charlie is such a positive force in the indie comics scene and being able to hear his story and his thoughts is beneficial to new and established creators alike. In addition to bei...

We have a special treat for you today. I'm sitting down with comics creator Nick Cagnetti to talk about his break out series Pink Lemonade from Oni Press. Pink Lemonade is one of the most unique things I've read in quite some time and it couldn't drop at a more relevant juncture as Nick examines the exploitation in comics and more broadly in all our entertainment mediums in the book. It's got a re...

This is an incredibly exciting episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner today. None other than Cullen Bunn returns to the podcast and he brings with him Brian Hurtt to talk about their newest Kickstarter for Deluxe Omnibus Library editions of The Sixth Gun. The Sixth Gun started in 2010 and not only can fans get these amazing editions, but there will be a new story coming in 2025 and if you back the...

It's Friday and there's a new episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner! It's Milton Lawson and he's here to chat about his newest comic with Erik Whalen for Scout Comics, Orson Welles: Warrior of the Worlds. Issue #1 is out August 16th so be sure to add it to your pull list before FOC to make sure you get a copy of this incredible comic that asks the question what if the War of the Worlds radio broad...

It's a very special July 4th episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner today. Why's it so special you ask? Because Jimmy got to chat with Eliot Rahal about the newest Mad Cave Studios comic UNDER THE INFLUENCE out July 5th. Under the Influence is about a kid made famous by a meme that grows up to become a social media influencer cult leader. So the FBI sends in an undercover agent who may already be i...

Wrapping up our Pride Month coverage on the podcast, I'm hanging out with writer Jennifer Dugan. Jennifer is a cross-medium writer working in both novel and graphic novel formats and on this episode we're talking about her project Coven published by GP Putnam’s Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Coven is a delightful queer witchy young adult graphic novel. We also get into her new adult nov...

Continuing our Pride Month coverage on the Cryptid Creator Corner, I'm chatting with comics creator Hannah Templer about her series, Cosmoknights, from IDW Publishing. I'm a big fan of the series and Book 2 was just released into the wild. That's right. Your favorite gays in space odyssey has returned with more action. Familiar faces return and the crew is expanded. I also learned a little bit mor...

Continuing our Pride Month Coverage here on the Cryptid Creator Corner podcast, I have with me today returning guest Tate Brombal. Tate is an Eisner and GLADD nominated writer and today we are chatting about his new Dark Horse Comics series The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos. More than just a mouthful, this book is excellent and follows a neurodivergent teenager learning to navigate th...

The Yeti Cave is packed with talent today as we talk about one of my favorite crowdfunded comics: RUINATION! It's writer Ryan Bis, colorist Kaytee Brown, and editor Nicole D'Andria. In RUINATION, soldiers embark on an adventure filled with magic crystals, secret wars and portals to strange post-apocalyptic worlds. It's a rich, character-driven, action-packed story and you can back Volume 1 on Kick...

Continuing our Pride Month coverage, I'm chatting today with comics creator Iasmin Omar Ata (Delta) about their new YA graphic novel Nayra and the Djinn from from Viking Books for Younger Readers. Full of delightful supernatural folklore, this modern interpretation of the mythology of the djinn brings the myth to a whole new generation of readers while following the protagonist Nayra as she naviga...

Sometimes we meet people and know right away that we'll be fast friends for life. This is not one of those times. On today's episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner things go off the rails quickly. Fair warning: this episode is very, very silly. I chat with enemy turned lover turned friend turned stranger turned frenemy turned criminal associate (you know that old trope) Comics Heartthrob Grant Stoy...

Here on the Cryptid Creator Corner we continue our Pride Month episodes with artist Alex Moore chatting about Death Drop Drag Assassin out June 14th with Scout Comics. Writer David Hazan was on a previous episode and we got to talk a little about this project, but Alex is here to dig deeper and discuss their artwork and process. Plus we get to hear about Alex's journey in comics. I was lucky enoug...

We are kicking off our Pride Month programming with a great new project from relative newcomer to the comics medium, writer Joey Capuana. Joey's new Scout Comics project Trance follows a group of queer witch drag queens in Savanna, Georgia and how they get wrapped up around a series of murders targeting gay men in the community. I enjoyed the hell out of this book. Make sure to look for it on your...

The word of the day on today's episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner is "collaboration" as we welcome George O'Connor onto the podcast. George loves to create, whether it's music, film, screenplays, or comics, but one look at his website and it's clear, he loves making stuff with other people. I had a great time chatting with George about the current Kickstarter for Charlie's Spot which is on Kick...

In the interest of full and fair disclosure, I have written one of the comics in the Comics from the Kitchen Anthology put together by my guest Kylar Merrell and Foreign Press Comics, and I'm incredibly excited for this ZOOP campaign to go live on May 30th! Don't worry though, we're going to be chatting about more than my story "It's Not Just a Meatball" with artist James Greatorex. You'll get to...

Greetings, fellow Cryptids, you are in for a real treat today. I sat down with Louis Southard and we covered a lot of ground. We discussed Louis' journey in comics, Midnight Western Theatre, the exciting return of Midnight Western Theatre with MWT: Witch Trial coming out July 12, 2023 (FOC is June 5th so get those orders in), and his series on ZESTWORLD Villains Seeking Hero, which is hilarious an...

Often, I don't know how a podcast interview is going to go. I prepare and I hope for the best. I want the conversation to be engaging and informative. I want to learn something about the creator or creative process. I want it to be fun. Today's episode with Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz blew away my expectations. Trevor has a Passion (with a capital P) for creating comics and it shows in every aspec...

Today I’m sitting down with Rolando Esquivel, co-creator on Mashbone and Grifty, a new project coming out with Scout Comics on their Latinx focused Imprint Chispa. Mashbone and Grifty is a satirical action comedy, about two friends who can’t get right starting their own detective agency in a South Texas border town. This book is hilarious. We don't get off topic at all deviating into a conversatio...

A comic book experience 5 years in the making. Jason Copland has brought his indie crime-scifi-noir graphic novel masterpiece FULL TILT to ZOOP and fans of Jason's work are rightfully flocking to back it. It's gritty. It's dynamic. It's a gangster story in a near-future dystopian city. I was hooked when Jason mentioned some of his influences were The Warriors (1979) and Tron (1982). Listening to J...

It's Friday and that means it's time for a brand new episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner! This is our Jason series, a first in a series of interviews with creators named Jason. Alright it's not really a series but next week we have another Jason too. Next week is the future though and today is today and by next week today will be the past, which is fitting since we're talking with Jason McNamara...