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

Marvel March Madness continues with Spencer Ackerman. Spencer is a journalist and writer. He's won a 2012 National Magazine Award for reporting on biased FBI training materials and shared in a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the 2013 global surveillance disclosures. His book Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabalized American and Produced Trump was named a best nonfiction book of 2021...

For some time now I've wanted to do a Women In Comics Feature on the podcast and it has finally arrived to celebrate Women's History Month. What better guest could I have on to hang out with me to kick things off than comics and television writer Josie Campbell. Josie has penned some of the most iconic cartoon characters ever: My Adventures With Superman, She-Ra Princesses Of Power, New Looney Too...

Jimmy did DC December and now he's kicking off Marvel March Madness. Tony Fleecs returns to the podcast and he and Jimmy cover a lot of ground. They discuss Stray Dogs, Feral, Local Man, Army of Darkness Forever, Uncanny Valley, and of course the upcoming The Thing! Tony talks about the Feral world tour road trip, playing with zombie tropes, the magic that makes Uncanny Valley work, and pitching s...

Horror is one of my favorite genres and I’ve often heard horror creators on the show talk about avoiding a modern setting in their work. How do you deal with technology, cell phones, and social media? It’s way easier to just drop it in the nostalgia of the 80s before much of that happened and we’ve seen an explosion of popular IPs set in the era of Pac Man and MTV, but what if you had a horror sto...

Today's guest on the Cryptid Creator Corner has worked in comics as both an editor and a writer since 2008. He worked for Marvel Entertainment, Image Comics, Kodansha, Viz, Vault Comics, and Wizards of the Coast. In 2018, he helped launch TKO Studios as Editor-in-Chief. It's Sebastian Girner and he's now embarked on a new endeavor with Goats Flying Press! They've already launch The Dead and the Da...

Jimmy welcomes Joe Eisma to the podcast and Jimmy can barely contain his excitement since Engineward is one of his favorite series. Jimmy and Joe chat about Joe's work on Engineward as well as his newest book: Student Government. Written by Lilah Sturges and Dave Justus, with art by Joe, Student Government tells the story of 4 teens at America's second oldest university on the interim student gove...

Deadpool is back with Wolverine and just like the first Deadpool movie release, we're dropping this episode on Valentine's Day weekend baby. Comics writing legend Joe Casey (Uncanny X-Men, Kneel Before Zod) is back on the show to chat with me about his new Marvel Comics project Weapon X-Men. I've already gotten a sneak peek and it's amazing. I typical Casey fashion, we're thrown into a fast paced,...

Let's Talk Shop is back for 2025 chatting with the folks who sell you the books you love. On today's episode I'm catching up with shop owner Mike Sterling of Sterling Silver Comics in Camarillo, California. As the format goes, each episode features a favorite shop from comics creators who have been on as guests. This recommendation was passed along by comics writer Amy Chase who co-hosted our end...

David Andry returns to the podcast to chat with Jimmy about his new Mad Cave series Crush Depth. David and Tim Daniel have written a fascinating story of a submarine crew, isolated for years from the surface, and on the cusp of discovering something terrible. Issue 1 is about as good as it gets to establish the world, build tension, and then Artist Alex Sanchez delivers phenomenal artwork both bea...

Bouncer union unit! To the best of my knowledge, this is the second time we've hosted a former bouncer on the show. It's not something I normally get to discuss and definitely the first time I've ever gotten to ask the question, "What was your Marvel bouncer personality?" But this isn't a podcast about bouncing, it's actually all about one of my favorite graphic novels of 2024, it's just that boun...

Today's guest on the Cryptid Creator Corner needs no introduction, but here goes anyway. Among others, he's written for Marvel (Silver Surfer), DC (Green Lantern), Dynamite, Valiant, Image, Dark Horse, and CrossGen. He's written Batman/Aliens, DC versus Marvel, Green Lantern versus Aliens, and the Amalgam Comic Doctor StrangeFate. He wrote Hal Jordan becoming a villain, basically started the "Wome...

When Dynamite solicited the return of The Herculoids into the comics medium, I was immediately concerned. Oh no, who's writing it? It is such a beloved childhood property of mine. Who could do it justice? Then my fears were allayed when saw Tom Sniegoski was at the reins. Given his background working on other major properties like Hellboy and Vampirella with their own distinct and important legaci...

It feels like this interview has been a long time coming. Anyone that has been following the Comic Book Yeti crew the past few years knows that Jimmy always tries to shine a light on letterers, so finally letterer and writer Joe Caramagna joins Jimmy to talk a little about his career in comics. Joe and Jimmy also talk about Joe teaming up with astronaut Leland Melvin to write Space Chasers, a midd...

The Pedestrian is one of those gems of a comic book you find, increasingly rare for someone who works covering the industry, so I was excited to finally catch up with co-creators Joey Esposito and Sean Von Gorman. It was my favorite new series of 2024 and Jimmy was kind enough to get me a signed copy when we visited Baltimore Comic Con last fall. Nearly everyone I know was impacted by the passing...

It didn't take too long into 2025 before Jimmy had to have a Mad Cave creator on the podcast. Olivia Cuartero-Briggs is an award-winning dramatic writer, girl mom and fitness junky, currently enjoying a career writing for film, TV, comics, and novels in sunny Los Angeles. Olivia joins Jimmy to talk about her new series Kill Train with artist Martina Niosi. They talk about the creation of the serie...

On today's show I have returning guest and recent Russ Manning Award Winner Oliver Bly sitting down to talk about the second volume of his original graphic novel series The Mushroom Knight from Mad Cave Studios. We a shared love of mycology so I have always adored this project and we go deep into exploring the themes of ecology and spirituality and how they mesh throughout the books. Oliver shares...

I'm biased, of course, but this is a fantastic episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner as Jimmy welcomes Ian Mondrick to the podcast. Ian is the writer and co-creator of one of the Yeti's favorites, the Tomb series: Tomb of the White Horse, Tomb of the Red Horse, and Tomb of the Black Horse. Ian comes on the podcast though to discuss Mongoose: The Unconventional Art of Joseph Mondrick. It's 150 page...

Do you love indie comics? Are you someone that excitedly backs crowdfunding campaigns? If you answered "yes" to either one of these questions then chances are you're already familiar with today's guest: Kat Calamia & Phil Falco from Lifeline Comics. If you're not familiar, you need to be, so sit down and listen up. Kat and Phil have been putting out some incredible and incredibly successful series...

I don't normally cover a project twice but this one is pretty special as it extends beyond the medium of comics. Don't worry, it was a comic first. We're revisiting the Mad Cave Studios project The Last Wardens with writers Amit Tishler and Elliot Sperl. They have been busy expanding the scope of their IP and developing a TTRPG as well as an audio drama based upon the world created in the comic. P...

Today's episode features a heavenly conversation between Jimmy and Caitlin Yarsky as they discuss her Dark Horse Comics series Living Hell. Caitlin is both drawing and writing this series about Jerome, a husband, father, and demon, desperate to avoid Hell's bounty hunters. Issue 1 came out November 6th and issue 2 will hit your LCS on January 8th. Jimmy described the series as Supernatural meets G...

On today’s episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner I’ve got returning guest John Harris Dunning on the show with me to chat about his new Dark Horse Comics Project, Ripperland, co-written by Steve Orlando, with artwork from Alessandro Oliveri, colors by Francesca Vivaldi, and lettering duties covered by Fabio Amelia. We touched on the project in October when John dropped in for our Horror Movie Reco...

DC December ends with none other than returning guest Jeremy Adams! Jeremy and Jimmy talk about Jeremy's incredible run on The Flash, his current work on Green Lantern, the Fractal Lanterns, the new Green Lantern Corps series, and taking over Aquaman. If I were Jeremy I'd be looking to Blue Lantern Saint Walker and hoping I could keep all these different balls in the air! (Jimmy made me include th...

ICE Awards back again, check it to wreck it, let's begin...The Comic Book Yeti ICE or Indy Comics Excellence Awards are back for year three. We are celebrating some of the amazing comic book drops of the 2024 calendar year and as usual regular hosts Jimmy Gaspero and Byron O'Neal have invited two guest hosts from the industry to celebrate with them. This year that's comics writer Amy Chase and hos...

It's DC December and Tom King returns to the Cryptid Creator Corner for the 3rd time. Tom has been writing The Penguin and Wonder Woman, but he comes on today to discuss the newest series he's writing: Black Canary: Best of the Best. Tom is working with artist Ryan Sook on this 6 issue series that sees Black Canary take on Lady Shiva. Each issue will showcase another round of the fight. Tom talks...

Eisner and Russ Manning Award winner Tyler Crook is back! Tyler is promoting the new Complete Edition of Harrow County from Dark Horse Comics, a massive tome of a book. We get to chat about some of the character design inspirations for the project and the other stuff he's been up to lately which include releasing a hardbound, collected edition of his series The Lonesome Hunters, producing of all t...