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

I cannot believe it has taken this many episodes for me to get to chat with Dave Scheidt. His comics work includes Star Wars, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Agents of S.L.A.M, and Mayor Good Boy. Mayor Good Boy Turns Bad, illustrated by Miranda Harmon comes out December 5, 2023. Dave is also working on some awesome sounding projects like Time Traveler Tales with Twitch streamer and YouTuber Karl Jaco...

I'm super excited to welcome comics writer Greg Lockard to the Yeti Cave. His graphic novel Liebestrasse was a personal favorite in 2022 so when I heard about his new Comixology original graphic novel project, Trick Pony, I knew I wanted to have him on the show to chat about it. The longline, "a washed-up rodeo star heads home to visit his father in the hospital. While on the road he confronts the...

It's time to break out your Zubaz pants, Starter jacket, and Reebok pumps on the Comic Book Yeti Cryptid Creator Corner. Jimmy welcomes David Andry and Christopher Alvarez into the Yeti Cave to chat all about their love letter to high octane, big action, super fun 90s comics: DEAD BLOOD, on Kickstarter right now. Bruno Furlani and Micah Myers round out the rest of this creative team to tell the st...

What an episode we have for you today here at the Comic Book Yeti Cryptid Creator Corner! It's David Hazan, writer of Mad Cave Studios series NOTTINGHAM, the brand new MONOMYTH also from Mad Cave Studios, and the upcoming DEATH DROP: DRAG ASSASSIN from Scout Comics. David and I chat about all these great comics, how he got his start writing comics, and we even get to chat a little about the practi...

We're switching gears a bit in this episode and talking more about an aspect of the comics genre than a specific project. Take a deeper dive into the process and experiences of two webcomics creators, Nicky Rodriguez and Sierra Barnes. This was my first occasion to also have two Yeti ICE (Indy Comics Excellence) Awards recipients on the show at the same time. Sierra's series Hans Vogel Is Dead has...

We're traveling to Scotland (virtually anyway) for this week's all new episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner. Now, when I think of Scotland, I think of three people: Groundskeeper Willie, David Tennant, and John Lees. One of those three is fictional and one is far too busy on The Simpsons to be a guest, but we are lucky enough to have John Lees on the podcast! John is here to tell you all about hi...

David Dastmalchian is a mainstay in comics movies and tv shows. You've seen him in Dune, Ant-Man and the Wasp, The Suicide Squad, The Dark Knight... it's a long list. Recently he has turned his creative energy into a new project with Dark Horse Comics called Count Crowley, an homage to creature features in 80s cinema. I got a chance to catch up with David to hear about some of his inspirations beh...

It's Tuesday and that means a brand new episode of Comic Book Yeti's Cryptid Creator Corner. If you're a new subscriber, welcome, I think you're going to like it here, and if you're a long time listener, you know the deal, and thanks for listening. Today's guest is artist and writer Ray Nadine. They have created a graphic novel that I absolutely adored. Light Carries On is being published by Dark...

Ever heard of the hair dressing, car selling, cape wearing, karate master Count Dante? Yeah, me neither until I came across this incredible new project from the minds of J.C. Barbour and Wes Watson. You might have seen his ads in comic books back when. You might have even joined the Black Dragon Fighting Society to learn the secrets of Dim Mak from the Deadliest Man Alive. This new series is a tak...

Launched just last week and sitting at nearly $350,000 in pledged funding, Beehive Books have one of the biggest crowdfunding illustrated book volumes of all time with their new collaboration adapting the Carlo Collodi classic, Pinocchio. With over 50 brand new illustrations created specifically for this project from comics legend Mike Mignola and accompanying original notations from author Lemony...

On today's episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner we have a returning friend of the podcast, Anas Abdulhak and he brought his friend and collaborator Dennis Menheere to chat all about Etheres, which is out tomorrow March 22nd! Etheres is being published by Source Point Press. It's a fascinating and beautiful tone poem that Anas has written, which is complemented perfectly by Dennis' hauntingly gorg...

On today's episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner, I’m sitting down with Hector Rodriguez III and David Bowles to talk about their project Attack On Black Demon Tales which is a the first mass market release on Scout’s Chispa Comics Imprint designed to highlight Latine creators and stories. Black Demon Tales is now also a motion picture premiering in theaters in late April. We also get to talk abou...

Today might be my birthday, but the gift is all yours as today's episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner features former attorney and fantastic writer David Booher in his unprecedented 3rd appearance on the podcast to talk about wrapping up SPECS and the brand new Dungeons & Dragons: Saturday Morning Adventures #1, out in comic shops on March 29, 2023. After letting Byron have all the fun in the fir...

Breakout your old Motley Crue t-shirt and eyeliner cause we are headed back in time today as I chat with Rafer Roberts and Mike Norton about their new original graphic novel, The Rock Gods of Jackson Tennessee, from Dark Horse Comics. Mike grew up in Tennessee like I did and it was great to hear about some of the inspirations behind the project and to have a chance to take a dig at Kip Winger too....

It's still my birthday month but the gifts keep coming your way. Here is a brand new episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner with Christian De Matteo and James Lines from Fugitive Poems and they are here to tell you all about the current Kickstarter campaign for Containment Breach vol. 3: Of Clouds and Ether. Christian and James have put together more than a few anthologies and it's fascinating to h...

Ya'll are in for a treat today. I got comics creator Erics Schultz hanging out with me to talk about their new Marvel Comic project, Hallow's Eve. Erica is a Ringo nominee, a writer, an editor, a letterer, and all around multi-talented creator who drops some real talk about the industry and the realities of working in it. We get a little bit into their other new work X-23: Deadly Regenesis and tou...

Hey, listeners! It's Jimmy. Do we have a name for our listeners yet? Should we? Cryptidnaughts? Cryptonians? Anyhoo. March is my birthday month but the gifts are going to be coming your way starting with a super special Wednesday episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner. Kat Calamia and Phil Falco gave me my first shot at writing a short comic with the Bi Visibility Anthology. Now Kat and Phil, along...

It's Tuesday, so you know what that means, another brand new episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner and, WOW, what an episode. Jimmy chats with CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Mad Cave Studios Mark London about his new series (out tomorrow March 1st) titled Hunt. Kill. Repeat. Mark talks about his inspiration for this new series and working with this exciting creative team, including artist Franc...

I'm super excited to get a chance to talk to Jude Ellison Doyle on today's episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner. Jude is an incredible writer and has recently applied their talents to comics, working on Maw with A.L. Kaplan for Boom! Studios and has a new horror series coming out with them next month called, The Neighbors. After reading the review copy, I was interested to hear about all the incr...

Headed to your LCS this Wednesday? Looking for something new to read? Then look no further than the newest episode of Comic Book Yeti's Cryptid Creator Corner. Jimmy chats with both Christopher Sebela and Ben Hennessy about their new Vault Comics series Godfell. Christopher and Ben dig into their collaboration about a warrior and her somewhat unwanted traveling companion making their way through t...

We have comics royalty on the show today folks. I'm chatting with creator Emma Kubert about her new Image comics fantasy/adventure series Stoneheart. I can't quite believe the work rate with Stoneheart, Inkblot, Radiant Pink, and Frank Miller presents Pandora all going right now and still finding time to work as a teacher at the Kubert School. Whew. We chat a little bit about all those things and...

Happy St. Valentine's Day! You know, one popular story of St. Valentine is that he was imprisoned for marrying Christian couples and thereafter tried to convince Emperor Claudius Gothicus to convert. Good 'ol Claud refused and instead had St. Valentine (well he wasn't a saint yet) beaten with clubs and stones. When that didn't kill St. Valentine, Claudius had him beheaded. What better way then to...

Like spiders? What, you don't? If you are ready for a good ol' fashioned creature feature, I'm chatting with Steve Foxe about his new giant arachnid focused mini-series, All Eight Eyes, from Dark Horse Comics on today's episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner. Steve has been super busy as an editor working on the Department of Truth with collaborator James Tyrion IV and together they co-created the...

In this episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner I compare my guests' comic to an episode of Hardcastle and McCormick if they tracked down a werewolf, and if you understood that reference, let's be friends. But first, listen to Steven Kaul and Lyndon Radchenka talk all about their current Kickstarter campaign for The Laundrymen, which follows two monster hunters who operate an actual laundromat as th...

It was my daughter Charlotte that first told me about Fantastic Tales of Nothing. She had picked it up at the Brandywine Hundred Library and instantly fell in love with the world and characters. She begged me to read it so we could talk about it so I did and I loved it too. What an absolute joy it was then to get to chat with the creators of that book Alejandra Green and Fanny Rodriguez, to hear a...