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

We are kicking off my second year of Pride Month Specific coverage in the month of June with a new guest on the show today, Theo Parish. Theo is a UK based nonbinary illustrator and author with an amazing new autobiographical graphic novel called Homebody from Harper Alley. Homebody is a compelling depiction of Theo's own experience of self discovery as a nonbinary person using an honest and heart...

It's a jam-packed week of excellent guests on the Cryptid Creator Corner and today I chat with a creator known for Better Place, TerraQuill, Bridgebuilder's Creed, Samurai Grandpa, ILLÜMON, and Lost Souls #1: The Trials of Casci Capricor: it's SHAWN DALEY. Shawn is a cartoonist from Toronto who was recently named Sequential Magazine Awards Favourite Colourist of 2023. We talk about the comic creat...

I adored Wolfpitch and was delighted to get to chat with Balazs Lorinczi about it. Wolfpitch is Balazs' follow-up to the GLAAD Media Award nominated Doughnuts and Doom. Balazs was born in Hungary and now lives in Scotland and I was fascinated to learn about his journey in comics as well as why he loves to combine the supernatural and music. Wolfpitch is published by Top Shelf Productions an imprin...

Today I’m joined by a newcomer to our show, Dan Watters. Dan’s portfolio includes writing credits for Home Sick Pilots, Loki, Lucifer, a personal favorite of mine The Seasons Have Teeth, Six Fingers, and the recently released Creature from the Black Lagoon among others, and now he’s turned his attention helping Skybound launch the Energon Universe mashing up the world of the classic GI Joe and Tra...

We're talking about Old Dog and ThunderCats today on the Cryptid Creator Corner as I welcome Declan Shalvey to the podcast. I was lucky enough this past March to celebrate my 45th birthday in Ireland and as part of the celebration go to Dublin Comic Con and meet Declan. I knew once I was back home I had to get Declan on the podcast to chat about comics. We discuss his early days in comics, Dublin...

I’m joined by a new guest today. Megan Hutchison is a Mistress of the Dark Comic Arts, if today’s book is any indication, with an amazing new project coming out soon Archie Comics: Judgement Day written by Aubrey Sitterson with colors by Matt Herms and letters from Jack Morelli. This is the flagship of the Archie Premium Event, a new mini-series formatting designed to take readers beyond the one-s...

I’m delighted to introduce first time visitor Kelly Thompson on the show. Kelly is an Eisner Award winning comics writer with big title credits on Jem and the Holograms, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Birds of Prey amongst quite a few more and recently has been diving into the creator owned space with personal favs of mine The Cull and Black Cloak. She’s working with a new publisher now helping Skyboun...

I just love chatting with folks that love comics and one thing I can tell you about today's guest on the Cryptid Creator Corner, is that Paul Tobin LOVES comics. Paul is on the podcast today discussing the new Mad Cave Studios series The Mammoth. The Mammoth is a fantastic new horror mystery series. Arjuna Susini's artwork is incredible. Paul and I chat about the development of the series, his jou...

It's always a good chat when returning guest Amit Tishler drops in to chat with me and today he's brought along his co-writer and friend Elliot Sperl to talk about their new Mad Cave Studios mini-series The Last Wardens. I got a sneek peek at this book, and it is wild. Set in the 1970s, what starts out more as a sad slice of life family drama quickly ratchets up into bloody grindhouse bedlam start...

While I’m spending some family time in Disney World, Byron is making sure you don’t have to wait for new episodes of the Cryptid Creator Corner, and Great Scott this is a Dan(g) good episode with Dan Panosian and Scott Snyder. Dan and Scott make their way to the virtual Yeti Cave to talk about CANARY, a Comixology Original now published by Dark Horse Comics. The trade is out June 26th. This is a W...

Today I'm joined by a new guest on the show, Jim Krueger. Jim is an Eisner Winner, was a creative director with Marvel, has worked on many a comics property including Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Batman, Superman, the Earth X Trilogy, and is now collaborating with Grammy Nominated EDM megastar Steve Aoki on a new hybrid comics/prose graphic novel called Hiroquest: Genesis and Double Helix....

It's another special episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner and this time I'm chatting with Brent Fisher. Brent is the Creative Director of Dauntless Stories and the Chief Diversity Officer of Band of Bards. We chat about Dauntless and Band of Bards joining forces to be a worker-owned cooperative and what that means as well as Brent's roles in both organizations. I also get to learn more about Bren...

It was Orson Welles that once said about Twitter: "We live in a snake pit here... I hate it but I just don't allow myself to face the fact that I hold it in contempt because it keeps on turning out to be the only place to go." Maybe Orson Welles wasn't talking about Twitter, I'm not sure, but you know who could tell me what Orson Welles was talking about, today's guest: Milton Lawson. Milton makes...

I'm chatting with comics creator Boum on the show today. She's a new guest with an amazing new graphic novel, The Jellyfish, dropping with Montreal based Pow Pow Press. As a disabled person myself, I'm trying to get more creators with disabilities on the show and this book absolutely blew me away. It was my first 10/10 reading experience in 2024. The story follows Odette, a young woman slowly loos...

I really enjoy interviewing creators for the podcast, but I also love listening to other interview podcasts as well, and I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone that does it better than David Harper. David is the guy behind SKTCHD and Off Panel: A Comics Interview Podcast. David brings his natural curiosity to interviewing and it makes for some of the most thoughtful, interesting, and wonderful conver...

The third time is certainly the charm as Rich Douek returns to CBY's Crytpid Creator Corner to chat about Heartpiercer from Dark Horse Comics. Rich has teamed with artist Gavin Smith for this dark, fantasy story about Atala, a warrior who thought she was saving the World but ultimately doomed it. Issue #1 hits your LCS May 15th. Rich and I chat about the origins of this story, working with Gavin S...

It is a rare treat because both hosts are on the show today to chat with fellow Yeti and comics writer Wells Thompson about his new NSFW project SMUT funding on Kickstarter. Smut is an erotic comedy about three friends facing relationship problems, the promises they make to resolve them, and the sex they have along the way so what better way to discuss it than three friends on a podcast. Issue one...

Comics creator and Eisner Winning illustrator Michael Avon Oeming (Blue Book, The Mice Templar, Powers) joins me on the show today to discuss his new Dark Horse Comics project, William of Newbury. I've been a fan of his work for years now and following his process videos on TikTok inspired me to take this interview in that direction. We talk about how he pulled from English history, specifically t...

It's a double dose of awesome in today's Cryptid Creator Corner with Tyler Chin-Tanner and Jarred Lujan!!! Both are returning guests to the podcast, but this is my first time getting to interview Jarred and it's something I've been looking forward to for a long time. I'm a full-fledged member of the Jarred Lujan Fan Club and can't say enough good things about the comics he and his collaborators ha...

As an original comic art collector, I’m excited because we are going to dive today into a different corner of the comics collectable market today. There’s been a bit of an upheaval in recent weeks with the exodus of artists from Cadence Comic Art. As many arts look for new representation or in some cases for collaborative opportunities to share the burdens of operating a direct-to-consumer model o...

Mad Cave Studios has been putting out some fantastic comics as they celebrate their 10 year anniversary and today's guest's newest comic is no exception. Writer Ray Fawkes is here to chat about Sanction. This is the story of 2 very different detectives tasked with investigating a dead body in 1987 Leningrad. Ray talks about working with artist Antonio Fuso, why he wanted to set this story in the U...

I was a huge Space Ghost fan as a kid and was super excited to see that Dynamite Entertainment managed to secure the rights to bring him back to the comics medium again. With a rogues gallery that rivals Batman: Moltar, Brak, Zorak, Metallus... there's so much for a creative team to develop and explore in terms of a modern interpretation. Added bonus, it is written by returning guest David Pepose...

One of my favorite past podcast guests has returned and he's brought a friend. It's none other than fellow Star Trek: TNG fan and, in my opinion, the kindest gentleman in indie comics: Ben Humeniuk and he's brought along his collaborator, voted the least guardable baller in indie comics, Travis B. Hill and they are on the podcast today chatting about their comic with Band of Bards : A Last Goodbye...

I am hype about this project y'all. It's the most visually stunning thing I've seen thus far in 2024 by a country mile. Today I'm chatting with artist Jonathan Marks Barravecchia about his new Image Comics series that he's co-creating with writer Sean Lewis Bear, Pirate, Viking, Queen. This thing is a straight up visual feast. It's poetic carnage and something you just have to see. I've been wanti...

Today on the podcast is none other than Mr. Comics Bookcase himself Zack Quaintance and he's here to talk about the current Kickstarter campaign for Death of Comics Bookcase, vol. 1, which goes live today, April 2nd! Zack ran his comics site Comics Bookcase for a number of years, with many wonderful articles and deep dives into comics, but, as the folks here at Comic Book Yeti know well, managing...