Part-Time Fanboy Podcast

Upkeep is the story of a family who have struggled long and hard to find the perfect home for their family. Like many couples looking to own a house, they've found it out of financial reach. One day they discover what seems to be their dream dwelling...until they realize the horrifying price that they have to pay for being able to live in that residence. The latest issue of Upkeep deals with the central family of the story welcoming the birth of a new baby. But what should be a joyous occasion quickly veers into a new kind...

Dan Goldman is a multimedia creator who's worked in comics and the entertainment industry for over twenty years. After a long stretch of working on properties for other publishers and producers, he decided it was time to focus on his own projects. Thus Kinjin Storylab was born. Kinjin Storylab is Dan's own independent storytelling studio on the web. Through Kinjin, Dan is able to focus on the tales he wants to tell without interference. One of these projects is Red Light Properties, which is a web comic he distributes through his newsletter and which was nominated for an Eisner...

Supergirl is the eagerly anticipated spinoff/sequel to last year's James Gunn directed Superman movie. When last we saw Kara Zor El in the James Gunniverse, she was a stumbling drunkard, gleefully retaking possession of the adorable Krypto at the end of Gunn's film. It was a sharp departure from the Supergirl fans had been used to in any iteration of the character previous to this one. What kind of maid of might did Gunn's newly retooled DCU have to offer fans of Kal El's only cousin?

The answer came a couple of weeks ago when the...

Fred Van Lente is a writer who is never lacking in ideas. But when it came to his latest book it was his artist collaborator, Luca Pizzari, who inspired the project with just one phrase that happened to be stuck in his head..."Vampyrates!" When Fred heard that word escape from Luca's lips, a new comic series was born. One that was focused on a world of swashbuckling vampires, living in an alternate history where a thousand year eclipse has made vamps the masters of the seven seas and beyond. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian...

A little over five years ago, comic book legend John Byrne started randomly drawing X-Men comic book pages and posting them on his online forum. Without any fanfare or expectation of payment or publication, Byrne began telling his own alternate timeline version of X-Men history. He branched off from the original intended resolution of the Dark Phoenix Saga where Jean Grey survives the merry band of mutants' confrontation with the Shi'ar Imperial Guard. Reaction from the online community was immediate with fans expressing everything from disbelief to unbridled joy. Questions abounded: Why was John Byrne doing this? Was this...

This week Conor McCreery returns to the Part-Time Fanboy podcast! Hot off of his Eisner nomination for Fela: Music is the Weapon, Conor comes back to the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse to chat about his latest release, the collected edition of The Last Witch: Blood and Betrayal. Kristian and Conor discussed the first issue of the comic here last year but now that it's being released in a compiled edition he's here again to take a deeper dive into the series. Kristian talks to Conor about telling a story for younger readers that features darker themes, how The Last Witch...

We're back! It's been a while but the Part-Time Fanboy podcast is back!

This week Kristian chats with writers Shawn McBee and Maciej Jankowski about the Kickstarter campaign for their new supernatural horror comic Westron! Jan Westron is a detective who is investigating the murder of a teenage girl which has details that are startingly similar to a case he was involved in as a teenaged boy. As he dives deeper into the situation, it begins to become obvious that the killing he's looking into isn't just a run of the mill murder but may have some...

Episode Six Hundred is here!

For the six hundredth episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian welcomes back friend of the podcast Gabe Cheng! Gabe Cheng is a writer who's had lots of success on Kickstarter with one shot comics like The Problem With Parallels, Crashlands, and Requiem in Relke. For a long time Gabe's not really been interested in exploring a narrative past one single issue. His comics have been examinations of different stories in different genres that only stuck to one self contained tale...until now. With his newest comic, This Seems Normal (now funding...

Matthew Schofield is an illustrator who has worked as a storyboard artist and a director on The Simpsons for over twenty five years! Even though Matthew's had a successful career in the animation industry, he'd never been able to let go of the juvenile desire to create comic books. Several years ago he created the superhero parody Steamroller Man as an online comic strip and eventually successfully funded a crowdfunding campaign for the first print edition of his character's adventures. Now Matthew is back to making comics with a sequel to Steamroller Man which is currently raising funds on...

Stephanie Williams is a writer who has worked for publishers like Marvel,DC, and IDW on characters such as Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Nubia, My Little Pony, and many, many others. This April saw the debut of her creator owned graphic novel, Temporal, from Mad Cave Studios. Temporal tells the story of a mother who has a wonderful family life but starts to yearn for the adventurous time she spent in her youth as a time thief. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian jumps into the time stream with Stephanie to discuss what led to...

April Fools’ month is here so it’s time to talk about bad movies! All this month, we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite “bad” movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of or movies we haven’t seen, which have terrible reputations, and that we decide to give a shot to win us over.

For the last April Fools' flick of 2026, PTF regular Yvis Cannavale picks the mother of all eighties 3-D movies, Jaws 3-D! Kristian can barely contain his disdain for the third entry...

John Lees has found his success as a writer of horror comics. Despite that success and his love for the horror genre, John was a fan of and had the desire to delve into the realm of romantic comedies. Embracing his love of romcoms, Lee threw caution to the wind and crafted his latest comic, Orla! Orla! is an exploration of all of the anxieties and pitfalls that women can experience when they go out into the dating pool and find nothing but a certain toxic breed of male. But the central character in Orla! is a special breed...

April Fools’ month is here so it’s time to talk about bad movies! All this month, we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite “bad” movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of or movies we haven’t seen, which have terrible reputations, and that we decide to give a shot to win us over.

This week, multimedia artist Phil Mucci picks the sexy sixties psychedelic super thief flick Danger Diabolik! Danger Diabolik is a groovy Italian action thriller directed by Mario Bava and produced by...

Susan and Tilly Bridges are a married writing team who have worked on properties ranging from comics to books to role playing games to television shows to films. They have been fans of nerd stuff for as long as they can remember and of Star Trek in particular to the point of claiming that they have watched every episode of the various incarnations of the show. When the opportunity arose to write a comic book adaptation of a Star Trek Voyager adventure through IDW Publishing they jumped at the chance. The result of their work is the mini series...

April Fools’ month is here so it’s time to talk about bad movies! All this month, we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite “bad” movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of or movies we haven’t seen, which have terrible reputations, and that we decide to give a shot to win us over.

This week artist and cinephile Lauren Damon picks the 2001 comedy Monkeybone! Directed by Henry Selick and starring Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, and Rose McGowan, Monkeybone tells the story of what happens...

April Fools’ month is here so it’s time to talk about bad movies! All this month, we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite “bad” movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of or movies we haven’t seen, which have terrible reputations, and that we decide to give a shot to win us over.

This week friend of the podcast, Steven Prince (Monster Matador, Mercy in Prison), picks the 1980 Roger Corman Star Wars/Seven Samurai knockoff Battle Beyond the Stars! When a peaceful planet is in...

Hunters of Sheydim is a comic book about twin sisters who are agents of the Baalei Shem Tov, a secret order of Jewish demon hunters. We had the creator of the book, Jeff Marvin, on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast back in December to chat about the debut issue of the comic. The collected trade paperback of Sheydim debuted several weeks ago so Jeff returned to the show to talk about the first complete arc of the comic. Kristian chats with Jeff about how he took elements of Judaism and deftly used them to create an action-adventure series unlike any...

 April Fools’ Day is here so it’s time to talk about bad movies! All this month, we at the Part-Time Fanboy clubhouse will be talking about our favorite “bad” movies. Movies we love, but that other people may not have such a favorable opinion of or movies we haven't seen, which have terrible reputations, and that we decide to give a shot to win us over.

To open up the April Fools' Day ceremonies we begin with the 1980 remake of The Jazz Singer starring Neil Diamond! Kristian saw Song Sung Blue over the holidays and loved it, so he d...

Mike Kunkel is back! This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian chats once again with the creator of one of his favorite comics of all time...Herobear and the Kid! Ever since he came across Kunkel at the San Diego Comic Con back in 1999, Kristian has considered his work to be something special. With Herobear and the rest of his work at The Astonish Factory, Kunkle has created properties that are filled with hope and nostalgia for the kinder, simpler time of childhood. Next week sees the debut of the first full new Herobear and the Kid story...

Osy Ikhile is an actor who's had a successful career with roles in shows like Black Mirror, Citadel, and All American. Even though his acting career has had its accomplishments, Osy still had the desire to create his own projects. Years ago he began developing an idea for a television show but eventually realized that getting a series off the ground might take too long. So he turned to his other passion, comics, to bring his imaginings to fruition. The result ended up being the new comic book series We Who Remain, which is about a group of individuals...

Bixby Grant is the story of mummified former police officer turned private investigator who solves crimes on the streets of Harbor City. In Harbor City Grant is just one of a plethora of supernatural beings who walk the streets. In the world of Bixby Grant: Private Eye vampires, werewolves, and zombies are everyday inhabitants of their metropolis who live their lives just like anyone else. They do everything your average everyday citizen does...including commit crime. That's when Bixby Grant steps in. On this week's episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian sits down once again with the creator...

Joseph Karg is an animation professional and an Associate Professor of Illustration at Kennesaw State University. Like many other creatives, Karg had become frustrated with the general state of the world we're living in so he decided to take his talent and do something with it. He created I Feel Doomed (currently funding on Kickstarter), an anthology comic book that brings together the work of his students at the university as well as artists he knows within the animation industry to tackle the anxiety at large that so many people are feeling right now. On this episode of the...

It's time for more Damn Dirty Apes! This week Part-Time Fanboy continues to take a deep dive into the short lived Planet of the Apes TV show from 1974. Kristian once again sits down with Joe Slepski (of the Joe on Joe Podcast) and PTF regular Yvis Cannavale to chat about the next group of the Planet of the Apes Television Show episodes: The Surgeon, The Deception, and The Horse Race. Has the Apes show pulled out of its seventies episodic television formula to finally develop some compelling stories with interesting scenarios and well rounded characters or have Kristian's defenses...

Jeremy Whitley is a writer who's probably known more in comic book circles as a creator of stories for the younger set. With comics like Princeless, The Dog Knight, and Navigating With You, Jeremy has built a reputation for crafting stories with strong emotional cores and relatable characters for the YA crowd. With his latest release, however, he unleashes two tales of terror sure to make fandom rise up and realize that Whitley definitely has a darker side. With Slay and The Girlfriend Survives ( now funding on Zoop) Jeremy serves up two horrific yarns in one fear filled flip-book...

The Secret S.T.E.A.M Society is a series of educational graphic novels for kids and teenagers. Each volume of Secret S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) Society focuses on a different subject, taking a deep dive into different topics such as music and spaceflight. The debut edition, being published on February 10th by Papercutz, focuses on horses. It's an almost encyclopedic yet incredibly fun look at just about everything anyone would want to know about our equine associates. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with the writer...

28 Years Later was the long awaited sequel to the 28 Days Later zombie movie franchise. Upon its release last year, it split the horror community in half with some fans feeling disappointed in the lack of kinetic thrills the original film delivered and other fans embracing the new apocalyptic world that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland had created. Earlier this month 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple saw its premier as the follow up to 28 Years Later. On this episode of Part-Time Fanboy friend of the podcast, horror critic and writer Mark L. Miller returns to chat with Kristian to talk...

Simon Birks is a writer who's been creating and publishing comic books for over ten years. With his Blue Fox Comics imprint, he's helped bring various books, comics, and role playing games out into the world. With his comic Antarctica, he teamed with Image Comics to release one of his projects to readers everywhere. In February his next book, The Thing On The Doorstep, is also being published by Top Cow/Image Comics. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down with Simon to chat about his sequential art adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's short story...

It's been eight months (!) since Part-Time Fanboy visited the apocalyptic world of The Planet of the Apes. On our last Damn Dirty Apes episode, we began breaking down the live-action Planet of the Apes television show which only lasted one short season in 1974. This week Joe Slepski (of the Joe on Joe Podcast) and PTF regular Yvis Cannavale join Kristian to chat about the next three episodes of the series. In The Good Seeds, The Legacy, and Tomorrow's Tide the serialized adventures of astronauts trapped on a world of speaking simians gets stuck in a formulaic loop. Is the...

J.M. Brandt is the writer of the horror comic Swamp Dogs. Like so many creative individuals he's been horrified by what the current presidential administration has been doing to marginalize LGBTQ people and individuals of color...so he decided to do something about it. He pulled people together from all corners of the comic and artistic community and created Horror Not Hate, a comic book anthology currently funding on Kickstarter that uses the horror genre to tackle stories about fascism, transphobia, homophobia, xenophobia, racism, and toxic patriotism. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down...

Jeff Marvin is a comic book writer who began his career with a book called The Virgin Killers, which was a comic about monster hunting nuns. Jeff, however, is Jewish, and as he developed the idea for his story he began to realize that he was having trouble continuing to write his tale without interjecting aspects of his own religion into the story. After a while, he decided he needed to step back from his creation and re-tool it so that it would more closely align with his own cultural experience. Thus Hunters of Sheydim was born. Hunters of...

Christopher Kappel is a TV writer who's just had his first graphic novel published by the Maverick imprint of Mad Cave Studios. Wrack and Rune tells the story of two young men who develop romantic feelings for each other. There's only one problem, one of them happens to be a member of a secret society of magic users known as Translators and when that society finds out that he's revealed their existence to his new love interest, they demand the right to erase his memory. It's a story that will seem familiar to readers of Harry Potter and the...

Connie Huang and Dallas Hosington are the creative minds behind Hyde Hermit Studios. They've become a staple of the convention circuit selling pins, stickers, shirts, and all kinds of product featuring their own original artistic creations. Last year they put out their own children's book, Hyde the Hermit Crab, about a hermit crab that has to deal with imposter syndrome while attempting to create their own works of art. They just recently reissued Hyde the Hermit Crab, updating some of the artwork and releasing it in a new, larger format. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian...

Ari Gross is a comic creator whom Kristian considers deserving of wider recognition. With books like Upkeep and Wardens, Ari is a writer who delves into interesting subject matter and creates characters with heart. Wardens was one of Kristian's favorite comics of 2024. It's about a tough as nails Jewish seamstress by the name of Rachel Tussman who gets dragged into a world of mysticism when her place of work is destroyed by a fire. With Wardens, Gross and his artist, Rob Jennex, have created a world that is evocative of the ones that characters like Popeye, Betty Boop, or...

Joseph Illidge is a comic book jack-of-all-trades. Thoughout his career in comics he's helped guide the ship for various properties as both writer and editor. He began his career at Milestone Media and he guided the path for the Batman stable of characters in the DC universe, serving as editor during the compelling Batman: No Man's Land arc . Most recently he's been writing for Todd McFarlane and Images Comics on Bloodletter , wrapping up a run on Milestone's The Shadow Cabinet, as well as performing editing duties for the first ever Swat Kats comic book. This year he founded Illuminous...

Ellie Pyle is a creative professional who has a hand in developing all kinds of media. Comics, podcasts, television, games, and theater...you name it, she's been a part of it. Her versatile skill set has seen her work as an editor at Marvel and at DC's Vertigo imprint. She's been the Director of Creative Development at Marvel Television and is the creative lead on their fiction podcasts which include Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show, Wastelanders, and the Women of Marvel podcast. She's also the Executive Artistic Director of Bespoke Plays, a theater company in Los Angeles dedicated...

Travis Webb is a writer who's comic Starlite was recently completed via several crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter. Since he was a teenager, Travis has been a fan of the cyberpunk genre, in particular of the Japanese manga and anime which made tales of a future world where cyborgs and giant mecha existed seem plausible. Then Travis discovered the films of director Albert Pyun. In movies like Cyborg and Nemesis, Pyun attempted to take the things that comics and animation had dreamed up and bring them into live action movies. Now, over three decades since the first Nemesis film debuted...

Clay Adams and David Schrader are a pair of creatives who make up the production company Bloodline Pictures. Over the past several years they have had lots of success crowdfunding their horror anthology series, Nightmare Theater, as well as a host of other Kickstarter projects. Their latest project, debuting on Kickstarter on November 18th, is A Very Carmilla Christmas Carol. It's a sequel to a series of stories that spun out of one of their original entries in the Nightmare Theater books and features the original vampire queen Carmilla, a character who predates Dracula by about 25 years. In their...

Happy Halloween! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continued its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween season! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomed some of their favorite indie creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about them on the podcast! This week, we had a special treat leading up to the final day of the month: we focused on three different horror flicks!

To finish out the week of terror, Josh Eiserike (The Very Last Final Girls, Charm City, Pale of Settlement) joins Kristian and Part-Time Fanboy regular Yvis...

It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween season! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast! This week, we have a special treat leading up to the final day of the month: we’ll be focusing on three different horror flicks!

For the second pick of the Halloween week, comic book writer David Accampo (Spectral: Showcase of Fear, The Margins, Lost Angels) picks the super...

It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween season! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast! This week, we have a special treat leading up to the final day of the month: we'll be focusing on three different horror flicks!

This first pick for Halloween week comes from multi media artist Phil Mucci (Diabolik Double Feature)! To kick off the last week of October...