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

I feel really privileged to have gotten the opportunity to do today's interview. Award winning illustrator/author Robin Ha joined me on the show to talk about her new queer YA graphic novel set in 16th century Korea injected with a bit of fantasy, The Fox Maidens, being released by Balzer and Bray/Harper Collins. Robin's other work has been very personal, exploring her own experiences as a teenage...

SPOILER ALERT!!! We have something a little different on today's episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner. Griffin Sheridan, Ethan Parker, and Bob Quinn return to the podcast to discuss Kill Your Darlings issues #1-4 and when I say "discuss" I mean we get into it and I get to discuss my favorite parts of these 4 issues. Needless to say if you haven't read issues #1-4 yet, you should probably do that...

On today's episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner, I'm sitting down with comics writer Zoe Tunnell to hear all about her new one shot coming out on February 7th from IDW, the Godzilla Valentine's Day Special. To the best of my knowledge, we've never done a Valentine's Day feature here on the podcast so this was an excellent way to break it in with a tightly written little sapphic romance featuring...

Today's guest on the Crytpid Creator Corner is one of my favorite current comic book writers: It's Zac Thompson. Zac has been on the podcast before chatting with Byron about The Brother of All Men, but this was my first chance to sit down and discuss his latest comic from Oni Press: Cemetery Kids Don't Die. Zac has teamed up with Daniel Irizarri and Brittany Peer for this tale of sibling relations...

I'm so excited to get to share today's chat with you because I firmly believe I'll be talking about this book on our awards show at the end of the year. I got to recently catch up with comics writer Ryan K. Lindsay to hear all about his new Mad Cave Studios project, Deer Editor. This is a noir like none other. That simple addition of a man/deer character adds so much range with what you are able t...

Hard to believe, friends, but this is my 100th episode of the podcast and I'm chatting with a fantastic indie creator today: Damien Becton. Damien and his collaborators have made some fantastic comics like Worlds Away and Try Not to Die, plus he is one of the winners of the 2021 Mad Cave Studios Talent Search. Damien and I chat about his love of comics, his work on Tales from Nottingham, and the u...

Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of Comic Book Yeti's Cryptid Creator Corner podcast. On today's episode I am chatting with the Founder and CEO of BlackBox Comics Dimitrios Zaharakis. I visited the BlackBox Comics booth at Baltimore Comic-Con, checked out some of their titles and picked up Dream Master #1-5 and it was fantastic. Dimitrios and I talk about how he got into comics and co...

Ya'll like crime comics because I like crime comics and I really liked Nice Jewish Boys #1, a new Comixology Originals series so I made sure to get writer Neil Kleid on the podcast and we had a great conversation.  Nice Jewish Boys is about Jake Levin, a freelance writer and suburban family man, who accepts help from an old friend when he's struggling a little financially. Jake witnesses something...

What do you get when two old Battlestar Galactia alumni get together to make a comic book. Turns out, not at all what you might expect. I got a chance to catch up with Mark Verheiden and Aaron Douglas to hear all about their new Dark Horse Comics project, Borealis. I was initially drawn to it from the native and supernatural elements alone but this is a big story with lots of overlapping narrative...

Heather Vaughan is a phenomenal artist (and living in Philly!) whose cover work, in particular, I have been seeing pop up all over the indie comics scene. Heather's artwork can also be seen in several board games, including one of my favorites from Restoration Games, the UNMATCHED Buffy set. Heather and I have a wonderful chat about her influences and what led her to work in both goard games and c...

So, the Fab Five nominees died at the Hellfire Gala or did they. More accurately, did they stay dead cause it sure looked like Nimrod did the ultimate sneak attack powerbomb on them. Enter Dead X-Men. What are the ultimate fates of Cannonball, Jubliee, Dazzler, Frenzy, and Prodigy? I got a chance to catch up with Cryptid Creator Corner veteran Steve Foxe to hear about this exciting new mini-series...

For the first episode of 2024, the Cryptid Creator Corner is coming in hot with an interview with Ed Brisson. Ed is here to chat about his newest series from Boom! Studios - The Displaced. Issue #1 is out February 14th. Ed has teamed up with artist Luca Casalanguida, colorist Dee Cunniffe, and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. This is a science-fiction mystery set in Ed's hometown where he lived unt...

Yes, it's that time of year again where Jimmy and I get together to celebrate some of the best comics produced in 2023 with the annual Comic Book Yeti ICE or Indy Comics Excellence Awards. We got two very special guests joining us, Kat Calamia and Lisa Gullickson. Kat was a nominee for last years show in The Giver category and has successfully launched many a Kickstarter campaign with darling indy...

Here's hoping you had a wonderful holiday season, now back to more podcasts! This is an episode I have been looking forward to for quite some time as I get to chat with Darcy Van Poelgeest about his newest Boom! Studios comic Lotus Land with artist Caio Filipe. I read issue #1 of Lotus Land and it's a science-fiction noir, set in a future version of Vancouver. It's a mystery where we, the reader,...

On today's episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner, I chat with Jordan Alsaqa about Cooking with Monsters: The Beginner's Guide to Culinary Combat. Jordan and I discuss the process of bringing this book to life with co-creator and artist Vivian Truong, the inspiration behind mixing elements of a cooking competition with fighting monsters, and how his own life experiences influenced the story. Jordan...

On today's episode I'm sitting down with comics creators Joe Rechtman and Reilly Brown (Deadpool, Amazing Spider-Man) to hear all about their new ten issue series Forgotten Runes: Wizard's Cult from Titan Comics. This is an epic fantasy project using the blueprint from the popular MMORPG, The Runiverse. This is a wild collaboration between the game and the comic book. Joe and Reilly are incorporat...

I should really start looking into Baltimore Comic-Con sponsoring the podcast because I've been on a fantastic run of interviewing creators I've met there and here's another with the wonderful (and tall) Charlie McElvy. Charlie and I talk about Spider-Squirrell and God Quest, working with writer Vito Delsante, and how he ended up a contestant on American Ninja Warrior (I love that show!). Of cours...

I hadn't gotten a chance to catch up with fellow native East Tennessean, Dakota Brown, since way back before the podcast started when I was conducting live interviews on Twitter/X Spaces. This one is lots of fun. I got to hear all about his new project Grandma Tilly's Hell-Tech Mech from Band Of Bards, which is honestly about like it sounds, a zany story about a game addicted grandmother on the hu...

We are once again chatting with another creator I was lucky enough to meet at Baltimore Comic-Con. Please welcome the Founder and Creative Director of Odyssey Comics Marcus McNeal. Odyssey Comics focuses on publishing "the best damn creator-owned comics in the galaxy." Marcus discusses his love of comics and how that led him to not just creating comics but publishing them as well. We talk about so...

Joe Hunter is an artist and colorist on series like Beast Heart Strikers! written by Lan Pitts. Joe and I talk about how he got his start in comics and what led him to want to draw comics in the first place. He also provides a hint or two about what he's working on that he can't quite announce yet and I remind Joe that he has a patreon. We discuss his early influences, his current hobbies when he...

With today's episode I am crossing off my list a creator that I have wanted to chat with since Byron first mentioned the idea of starting a podcast. In 2020, the early days of the pandemic, I first decided to try and write a comic script in order to enter the Mad Cave Studios Talent Search and I based my script on Show's End, written by Anthony Cleveland. Although I didn't win the talent search (u...

I got Scott Hoffman, AKA Babydaddy of the Scissor Sisters, back on the show today to chat about another one of his Comixology Original projects, Wag. Wag follows a group of unlikely survivors in a dystopian world. There are so many messages to unpack in this excellent book: mental health, childhood trauma, corporate greed, and freedom among others. I’ve been quite impressed with Scott’s work so fa...

Continuing the streak of podcast guests that I met in person at Baltimore Comic-Con, today's guest is Joe Corallo. At Baltimore, Joe was signing at the Mad Cave Studios booth and I picked up a copy of Dahlia in the Dark, his and Andrea Milana's graphic novel that's part Transporter and part Supernatural. It's a book that I loved and was excited to talk to him about it. I was also a fan of She Said...

I'm super excited this week to welcome Eric Powell onto the show. As a huge fan of Hillbilly, I've wanted to have him on for quite some time. We're chatting about the launch of his new Victorian ghost story inspired anthology, Four Gathered On Christmas Eve, from Dark Horse Comics. Recruited for the project were Mike Mignola, Becky Cloonan, and James Harren so it's a creative powerhouse. When I wa...

I hope all my fellow Cryptids in my part of the World are enjoying this Autumn. It's my favorite time to get outside and start some exciting new myths and legends. Today on the podcast we have returning guest Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz and he brought with him Ryan Best to talk about their current crowdfunding campaign for RISE. RISE tells the story of what it means to be "good man" while trying t...