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

C. Brennan Knight joins Jimmy on the Cryptid Creator Corner to chat about the current Kickstarter campaign for Tyrant Fall #3, which launches today, April 1st. You can hit the link below to check out the campaign. Brennan describes Tyrant Fall as if Dragon Ball Z was published by Heavy Metal Magazine. He has a long plan for the series and discusses the origins of the series with Jimmy, along with...

It’s becoming increasingly clear from my recent chats on the podcast and all the ones that happen in emails or DMs that a substantial part of the glass ceiling for women working in the comics medium centers around the editorial level, but is that accurate and what exactly might specific barriers be? Now I don’t know about you, but to me, you ask an expert. So, I reached out to Rachel Pinnelas. Rac...

Marvel March Madness wraps up with Ryan North! Jimmy gets instantly hooked as he reads his first Fantastic Four comics with volume 1 of Ryan's current run. If you haven't been reading Fantastic Four, you are missing out. Ryan talks a lot about the series, how he approaches writing it, and some of the different artists he's been able to work with. Issue #30 comes out March 26th. Ryan is also writin...

We live in the era of AI. The technologies many of us saw for the first time in sci-fi movies are now the technological experiments that will define humanity for generations to come. In some ways, that’s an exciting concept. How does nature versus nurture apply to machine learning and what exactly are the boundaries we will set to protect us? Human beings are historically bad at implementing guard...

As I was setting up the round of interviews that would be our first Women In Comics Feature to celebrate Women’s History Month on the podcast, I wanted to get a variety of voices included to represent different facets of the medium. That lead me to reaching out to Barbra Dillon, Editor-In-Chief of Fanbase Press, a GLAAD Winning and Eisner and Harvey Nominated publisher and geek culture website. Wh...

It's more Marvel March Madness with returning guest David Pepose! Jimmy and David discuss Space Ghost (published by Dynamite) and Cable: Love and Chrome. First, if you're not reading Space Ghost, you should be, because it's phenomenal. Second, David talks about the direction he wanted to take Cable into and what he wanted to see from a character that already has so much history, some of it fairly...

This episode is a real treat because I get to talk about one of my favorite ongoing series at a time where the ongoing series is becoming increasingly rare. I had legendary comic book artist Terry Dodson on awhile back with Pornsak Pichetshote talking about their Horizon Experiment project The Manchurian and Terry mentioned there was a new Adventureman arc coming out in early 2025. I jumped at the...

The last time Ringo Nominated comics writer Erica Schutlz was on the show with me was to talk about her Marvel Comics project Hallow's Eve. That project made me a lifelong fan of her work and after that chat I knew I needed to reach out to her again for my Women In Comics Feature celebrating Women's History Month in March. Her recent Laura Kinney Wolverine book is one of my top favorites of the Fr...

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...