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

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...

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...