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

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...

We got a very special episode of the Cryptic Creator Corner. I'm chatting with comics creator John Jennings. John is an Eisner winner, a Hugo winner, and a New York Times bestselling author. He's got a great new mini-series coming out with Marvel called Silver Surfer: Ghost Light which introduces a new hero to the universe. It was great to hear about not only this project but to also get a chance...

Oh boy, fellow Cryptids, do we have a treat for you today. Thanks to my typical Twitter shenanigans when I throw an idea out into the ether, this is my first interview with a "recovering attorney" turned creator. None other than Marc Guggenheim is on the podcast today to discuss lawyering, writing, Eli Stone, Arrow, comics and why Solo: A Star Wars Story is actually good. Marc talks about how he w...

My guest today is Dr. Andrea Lorenzo Molinari, Editorial Director for Scout Comics and writer/creator of The Shepherd comics series on Scout’s Black Caravan Imprint. In addition to talking about the series, Andrea is a fellow Floridian and I got a chance to catch up on what Scout HQ went through and the lingering effects of Hurricane Ian that hit last September and his daily routines as the Editor...

White Savior brings many things to mind when you say it. I guarantee whatever you are thinking though, Eric Nguyen and Scott Burman's new Dark Horse Comics mini-series White Savior looks nothing like that. Dive into this funny and irreverent take on the concept with today's interview with the creators of this inventive project seven years in the making. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

What can I say about today's episode with Henry Barajas other than I was so excited to talk about all of Henry's current projects, we didn't really get a chance to get into Helm Greycastle, which I love, so I guess we'll just have to have Henry back on at some point. What we do get to talk about is Gil Thorp, the Etrigan story he wrote in Batman: Urban Legends, La Voz De M.A.Y.O. Tata Rambo, BEYON...

The best part of this podcast, for me, is chatting with creators that I admire. Not just admire, but am somewhat in awe of the work they do and the stories they tell, which is why am I so excited to bring you today's episode with both Sarah Gailey and Liana Kangas. We talk about how each of them found their way into creative fields, how they ended up working together, their newest comic with Boom...

Melissa Capriglione is a comic artist and illustrator with a wonderful new YA LGBTQA+ graphic novel suitable for all audiences called Basil and Oregano published by Dark Horse. Jimmy chats with Melissa all about the characters and world she's creating combining cooking and magic. Plus Jimmy discovers that Melissa drew the cover for the Bi Visibility Anthology #1 (in which the first comic he wrote,...

Wrapping up the year in style, we got Benjamin Schipper on the podcast to talk about his forthcoming original graphic novel, Joe Death and the Graven Image, published by Dark Horse Comics. Quirky and with a unique western stylized storyline, Joe Death is sure to be a hit with Mignola fans and anyone who enjoys adventure stories and monsters, and possibly bugs but you'll have to listen to understan...

It's a two for the price of one deal today as Jimmy chats with both Michael W. Conrad and Noah Bailey. Michael and Noah have created two of the finest graphic novels with Tremor Dose and Double Walker. Both series were ComiXology Originals, but now Dark Horse is publishing Double Walker out on December 28, 2022. These two are such a great team and such wonderful storytellers, plus you'll get to he...

We are so excited to present the 1st Annual Comic Book Yeti ICE or Indy Comics Excellence Awards. Joining Jimmy and Byron are two very special guests, Fellhound and Grant Stoye, who help us break down the nominees chosen by the CBY editing staff and our two guest hosts. Unlike most award shows, there is no one winner. All nominees are considered equal as creativity isn't a contest and we want to r...