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

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...

Chris Condon returns to the Cryptid Creator Corner today as part of Jimmy's DC December. Chris is the writer of such incredible series as That Texas Blood and The Enfield Gang Massacre. Now, Chris has taken over writing duties from Joshua Williamson on Green Arrow! Chris is taking Ollie back to the streets beginning with a back-up story in issue #17 (which was out in October, although the real fun...

DC December continues! Christopher Cantwell is an Eisner Award nominee and one of the writers and creators of the TV show Halt and Catch Fire. Christopher joins Jimmy on the Cryptid Creator Corner to talk about Plastic Man No More (the trade is out April 8, 2025) as well as the brand new Challengers of the Unknown (issue #1 is out December 18, 2024). Christopher talks about this new series, workin...

Every time Eisner and Ringo Nominated Steve Foxe comes on the show to chat with me, I'm blown away by just how many projects he's dropping. In this episode, we're covering three of them primarily. He's living the dream getting to write an Alien mini-series with Paradiso, there's the inaugural release of the new True Weird line of books from Dark Horse Comics and James Tynion's Tiny Onion focused o...

Today I’m joined by returning guest musician turned comics writer Scott Hoffman. Scott has been on twice before promoting his other projects Wag and Nostalgia and he’s got a new book hitting shelves with DSTLRY called Warm Fusion, a futuristic sci fi/horror about a bleak New York future and the pitfalls of biotech gone wrong. We talk about the motivations behind this exciting new book, getting rea...

Part of Jimmy's DC December, Phillip Kennedy Johnson is on the podcast today to talk about writing Batman and Robin beginning with issue #14 that was out on October 9th. PKJ and Javier Fernandez kick off an all new adventure for Bruce and Damian. PKJ chats with Jimmy about how he wanted to take Batman back to his role as World's Greatest Detective and showcase those abilities. Jimmy also asks abou...

I'm joined by two newcomers on the podcast today, J. Holtham (Night Thrasher, Bishop: War College) and Michael Lee Harris (Berlin 1945, Black Hitler), to talk about their new one shot project Motherfucking Monsters from Image Comics. It is the forth offering from the Horizon Experiment, a series of five one-shot comic books each featuring original protagonists from a marginalized background set in...

The Yeti Cave is packed on this episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner. Jimmy chats with Jordan Blum, Patton Oswalt, Heath Corson, and I.N.J. Culbard about the upcoming The Brood, part of the Minor Threats Universe. The Brood is the story of supervillain Napoleon Archimedes, nemesis to superhero The Searcher, as he faces his own mortality and must choose which of his children will be his successor....

It's DC December on the Cryptid Creator Corner! Jimmy welcomes Christian Ward onto the podcast to discuss Two-Face. Issue #1 is out December 4th. This limited series is the FIRST in the character's history. Christian talks about his excitement over this series and to be working with artist Fábio Veras, colourist Ivan Plascencia, and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. Christian takes Harvey back to th...

Richard Ashley Hamilton joins Jimmy on the Cryptid Creator Corner to discuss the newest graphic novel he's written: Tectiv. Richard is an award-winning Cuban-American screenwriter and author. Working with artist Marco Matrone, Tectiv tells the story of Bingo Finder, the only literate person in a far future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. After Bingo's friend disappears, Bingo turns to the books she...

Jimmy chats with Daniel Kibblesmith to talk about comics and Daniel's fascinating career. Daniel, once considered "The Clown Prince of Groupon" according to the headline in an Intelligencer article, went from senior marketing copywriter there to writing for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Since leaving The Late Show, Daniel has written comics and for TV, including writing for the animated Netf...

As someone from the disability community, I’m often let down by how our community is portrayed in comics and it is rare to see our struggle reflected accurately. A month or two ago on social media that shall not be named, I saw screenwriter Peter Warren talking about his new comics project The Tin Can Society dropping right now from Image Comics on Rick Remender’s Giant Generator Imprint, where he...

It's Archie Andrews like you've never seen him before in Archie is Mr. Justice out November 20th and artist Mike Norton returns to the podcast and joins Jimmy to talk about this new 4-part limited series. Mike talks about what it's like playing in the Archie sandbox, getting to draw things that he hasn't seen in an Archie comic before, and the fun of Jughead's role in this series. Mike also talks...

You are in for a treat today because I have writer Tananarive Due on the podcast with me to chat about her new Image Comics project Moon Dogs. She's new to comics but has an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, a World Fantasy Award, and two Stoker nominations under her belt already and this book is absolutely fantastic so if she sticks with it, I'm personally convinced there will be an Eisn...

It's a brand new Cryptid Creator Corner! Jimmy had a chance to chat with both Archie Bongiovanni and Mary Verhoeven about their new graphic novel being published by Maverick, an imprint of Mad Cave Studios: Teleportation and Other Luxuries. So here we have yet another outstanding Maverick original graphic novel, after recently chatting with Jeremy Whitley, the writer of Navigating With You. The ti...

What an exciting new episode of the Cryptid Creator Corner! Jimmy chats with Veronica Agarwal and Lee Durfey-Lavoie about their newest graphic novel Sink or Swim. Their previous work Just Roll With It was a HUGE hit in the Yeti Cave and Jimmy was lucky enough to do a written interview with them previously, so it was awesome having them both on the podcast. This is such a great discussion about com...

It's a brand new Cryptid Creator Corner with guest Jay Faerber. Jay and I sat down to chat a little while ago and I'm excited for folks to finally listen to this episode. Jay wrote one of my favorite comics (illustrated by Scott Godlewski) Copperhead, and I was excited to nerd-out about that. Jay has co-created and written comics like Elsewhere, Noble Causes, Dynamo 5, and Near Death. Plus, Jay ha...

I'm delighted to introduce first time guest, Jeff Morris, on the show with me today to talk about his new crowdfunding project, True Believer, a collection of three short comics about his journey through grief. Each story draws inspiration from his personal experiences with loss and is bound to make you cry. I know personally, grief is a weird thing. I’ve had to deal with more than my fair share o...