Wayne’s Comics Podcast – Major Spoilers: Recent Episodes
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This week in Episode #714, Wayne talks with Ruben Bolling, creator of Tom the Dancing Bug, an award-winning comic strip that has explored everything from comic books to religion to politics in its 35 years of running in newspapers and online!
It’s time to catch up with Jay Magnum from Pet Piranha Entertainment, the driving force behind the Astral franchise and Galaxy Gal, among others! Jay catches us up on everything that has happened with his team so far in 2025, then looks forward to what they have coming our way soon! His current Kickstarter project [...]
James Aquilone, accomplished horror writer/editor, returns to the Wayne’s Comics Podcast in Episode #712!
In Episode #711, it’s time to return to my interview with Tom Sniegoski, who is the scripter for the Herculoids series from Dynamite Entertainment! Tom and I talk about the animated series that started it all as well as take a deep dive into the various characters and what made this show a favorite of [...]
This week in Episode #710, Wayne talks with creator Carmen Costa from the current Kickstarter campaign for the fifth issue of the Proctor comic! Carmen is a writer and educator from the Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey area. He has been crowdfunding for the Proctor series since early 2024. This new comic series is described this way: [...]
This week in Episode #709, Wayne talks with creator Benjamin Hunting from the upcoming Kickstarter campaign for the Model UN comic! To receive notices about the series before it launches, you can go to this link.
Legendary Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is teaming up with accomplished writer and artist Bruce Zick to explore an unchartered corner of the Hellboy universe in Captain Henry and the Graveyard of Time, the debut issue is due out on October 22 from Dark Horse Comics! Bruce talks with Wayne about his much-anticipated mini-series this week in Episode #708!
This week in Episode #707, Wayne talks with Melissa F. Olson from Ahoy Comics’ Archaic trade paperback, which arrives in stores on September 17, 2025. This is Melissa’s first full-length comic book, but she also calls it the most personal story she has ever written. Here’s the book’s description: “ARCHAIC is a modern-day action-adventure following [...]
Joel Rodriguez, creator of Dusk County Chronicles and the founder and CEO of Metal Ninja Studios, returns this week in Episode #706 to talk about their new “Concept to Comic” process that helps turn powerful written stories into stunning comics. Metal Ninja Studios (MNS) is a trailblazing full-service comic book production studio that was founded [...]
This week Episode #705 features the return of Andrea Lorenzo Molinari, an accomplished editor and a co-writer/co-creator of The Shepherd, an ongoing Indie OGN series.
Dracula’s Brunch Club is coming to booksellers and hopefully local comics shops this month, so writer/co-creator Brian Gonsar joins Wayne to discuss this highly anticipated middle-aged reader graphic novel, Brian’s very first, this week in Episode #704.
High-power creator Richard Pace, from Ahoy’s Second Coming, DC’s Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham, and much more, joins Wayne this week to talk the new Zoop.gg crowdfunding for Idle Hands: The Art of Richard Pace in Episode #703.
Drew D. Lenhart from Caspian Porter joins Wayne this week to talk about the upcoming Celestial Knight Versus Caspian Porter crossover from Homebrewed Comics in Episode #702.
This week, in Episode #701, Wayne talks with bestselling writer, producer, and creator Curt Pires about his upcoming comiXology original series Stillman!
It’s special episode #700 this week, and to celebrate, Wayne talks with Dan Goldman, creator of Red Light Properties: Unfinished Business.
This week in Episode #699, Wayne talks with high-power creative pro Marc Guggenheim specifically about his career in comic books, focusing on his newest series coming from comiXology, The Adventures of Ulysses Monarch!
Tyler Kirkham is the guest for this week’s podcast episode, #698! Tyler is crowdfunding his new book, The Marvel Art of Tyler Kirkham, now available for preorder on Kickstarter!
Wayne catches us up on A Wave Blue World and their related projects by talking with the return of co-founder and co-publisher Tyler Chin-Tanner this week in Episode #697!
In Episode #696, Wayne talks with several of the excellent comics creators from the 216-page modern fantasy anthology Concrete Arcanum: Living With Monsters, coordinated by Nathan Lueth, who returns to the podcast! They have a Kickstarter going on at this link, and it will conclude on Sunday, July 20 at 1:53 p.m. EDT.
This week in Episode #695, I talk with Ethan Sacks, accomplished creator of comics including Star Wars, Old Man Hawkeye, and Midnight Suns, and his daughter and co-writer, Naomi Sacks, who are telling an allegory of a deeply personal time in their lives called A Haunted Girl. They have a Zoop.gg crowdfunding event going on until about Thursday, June 12.
This week in Episode #667, it’s a great Zoop.gg crowdfunding doubleheader! Everything kicks off with Steve McGarry and Rick Stromoski from Mullets, then it all wraps up with Don Simpson with The Complete Megaton Man Universe Volume 1: The 1980s!
I hope you’re ready for another great doubleheader in Episode #666 this week! It all begins with writer CRC Payne from Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, then everything concludes with Tom Marvelli with The Boy in the Bot!
It’s another great doubleheader episode this week! In Episode #665, it all starts with Philip Tarl Denson from Future Tales, then everything concludes with Marco Finnigan with Calavera, P.I.!
Are you ready for another fun crowdfunding doubleheader episode this week? In Episode #664, it begins with Mark Maia from So-Called Living, then concludes with the return of Jay Magnum from the excellent Astral franchise, both of which have Kickstarter projects ending soon! It all kicks off with my fun interview with Mark Maia, who [...]
This week, it’s time for another great doubleheader episode, and it begins with Steve Bynoe from Atrium #1-5, then concludes with Joseph Sieracki from The Life and Death of the Brave Captain Suave trade paperback, which is crowdfunding on Zoop.gg!
I hope you’re ready for another great doubleheader episode, this time beginning with Ahoy Comics’ new Toxic Avenger mini-series creators Matt Bors and Fred Harper, then concluding with Danny Hellman from Jacked Tracts, which is crowdfunding on Zoop.gg!
This week, it’s time for another very special doubleheader episode, beginning with DC’s Absolute Batman creators Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta, then concluding with Indie great Phoebe Xavier!
Chris Stevens from The Golem of Venice Beach returns in Episode #660 this week! Chris Stevens is the multiple Eisner award-winning editor with a fascinating Kickstarter project called The Golem of Venice Beach, Volumes 1 and 2, which you can support at this link! The project has continued to attract a stellar line-up of creators. [...]
It’s time for another great Zoop.gg crowdfunding doubleheader week in Episode #659 as Wayne catches up with Mark Bertolini from the newly collected Breakneck, then Joe Harris returns to talk Great Pacific’s new hardcover edition!
In Episode #658, the creator of The Masters, Austin Hough, returns to discuss his crowdfunding project for the concluding issue #5
The creator of the beloved comic strip Mutts, Patrick McDonnell, is here this week in Episode #657 as we discuss his newest book release, Breaking the Chain: The Guard Dog Story, now available in all great bookstores and local comics shops!
We explore another great manga this week in Episode #656 as we talk with Robbie J. Atkinson about her newest release, The Seventh Kingdom, the first volume of which will be available for pre-order soon!
Ernest P. Worrell is back in his very first graphic novel called Ernest & The Dream Stone. This week in Episode #655, we talk with one of the creators of the comic, Corey Perkins!
This week in Episode #654, we chat with comics creator Snake about his upcoming work, The View of the Phoenix Trees, which is coming to Kickstarter soon!
In Episode #653, we explore the Illuminatus! trilogy, written in the 1970s by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. It’s being adapted into Tales of Illuminatus, a new comic book series written and illustrated by New Jersey comic book writer and artist Bobby Campbell, who Wayne talks with this week, with the assistance of another comic artist, Todd Purse. This adaptation is being made with the permission of the estates of Wilson and Shea.
Deb Aoki and Christopher Woodrow-Butcher manage a publishing initiative that recommends great manga to people who haven’t read much of that genre before. The latest manga published by them is Search & Destroy, presented by Fantagraphics. In Episode #652, Wayne talks with them about this latest release.
She Could Fly, the groundbreaking graphic novel, is a one-of-a-kind reading experience. And now that experimental graphic novel from Dark Horse Comics and Berger Books is a documentary escape game designed to challenge how we think about the deeply misunderstood mental illness, OCD. In Episode #651, Wayne talks with leader/co-designer Sara Kenney and co-producer Mairéad Ruane.
Eisner-nominated creator Jordan Morris talks about his latest release, Youth Group, this week in Episode #650!
In Episode 649 this week, accomplished creator Dave Swartz talks about his current Kickstarter campaign for Confederate Monster!
Christopher Michael from C.R.I.T: Robo Renaissance is the featured guest this week in Episode #648!
James Aquilone, accomplished horror writer/editor, returns to the Wayne’s Comics Podcast in Episode #647!
In Episode 646 this week, Nick Edwards from Stilettos talks about his Kickstarter that's ending soon!
Writer Justin Coke is interviewed this week in Episode #645 to talk about his upcoming book SWAT: Eldritch Blue Issue #1!
In Episode #643 this week, writer Lee Durfey-Lavoie returns, this time to talk about his new book Sink or Swim!
It’s time to talk DC Comics’ Green Lantern and Flash this week with high-power writer Jeremy Adams, who joins us for Episode #642 this week!
In Episode #641, Wayne talks with Trevor Mueller, the award-winning writer for Los Ojos, which is launching on Zoop.gg on Tuesday, May 21!
Matt Kindt, known for working with Keanu Reaves and Jeff Lemire, has a surprising new collaborator who joins us in Episode #640 this week!
He’s one of our favorites here at the podcast, so it’s great to talk again with Ed Jowett with the Empowered Outsiders 2 anthology on Kickstarter this week in Episode #639!
It’s time for another great doubleheader week in Episode #638 as Wayne talks with Sandy King Carpenter from Storm King Comics, then Jeff Haas returns to talk The End of All: Terminus #1 & 2 on Kickstarter!
Episode #637 is another excellent crowdfunding doubleheader as Wayne talks with Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith from Who Killed Nessie? on Zoop.gg, then Matt Schorr from Jesus Christ: Demon Slayer on Kickstarter!
It’s time for a great crowdfunding doubleheader this week in Episode #636! Wayne talks with Madeleine Holly-Rosing from Boston Metaphysical Society on Kickstarter and Jordan Plosky from Zoop.gg!
This week, Episode #635 is another excellent doubleheader, so Wayne talks with Royce Adkins from Outcasts on Zoop.gg and Michael David McCarthy and Alonso Molina Gonzales from Miracle Kingdom!
In Episode #634, It’s time for another great doubleheader, so Wayne talks with Caleb Palmquist from Dragon Grit and David Whalen from Layton Lightspeed! Everything kicks off with the return of Caleb Palmquist, who has a Kickstarter underway for his new comic Dragon Grit #1 that he created with his wife, Lorelei Jonason! Here’s how [...]
This week in Episode #633, It’s yet another great doubleheader, so Wayne talks with Chad Hardin with The Art of Chad Hardin, Volume 4 on Zoop.gg and Shane Berryhill from Deathslinger from Cosmic Lion Productions!
It’s another great crowdfunding doubleheader, so Wayne talks with Jimmy Broxton from Fully Loaded on Zoop.gg and Ed Jowett with Grace Under Pressure on Kickstarter, this week in Episode 632!
We celebrate Women’s History Month through interviews with Galaxy Gal creator Jay Magnum and Geek-Girl creator Sam Johnson this week in Episode #631!
Time for another excellent Kickstarter double-header this week in Episode #630 this week. First up is Invader Comics Editor-in-Chief Mike Perkins and Still creator Eli Powell. Then it’s the return of MechaTon creators Dalton Shannon and Wells Thompson!
In Episode #629 this week, you’ll enjoy another great double-header! The two entertaining interviews begin with Jerry Carita from The Grizzly Crew #1, then we wrap things up with Tyrone Finch from Ahoy Comics’ upcoming Deadweights!
This week, it’s another great double-header in Episode #628! The two fun interviews begin with cartoonist Bob Fingerman from That’s Some Business You’re In, then wrap up with Matt Knowles and Steph Cannon from Insymmetry Creations!
High-power comics creator Graham Nolan talks about his new crowdfunding IndieGoGo project bringing Return to Monster Island back to Compass Comics! It all takes place in Episode 627 of the Wayne’s Comics Podcast this week!
Breakout writer Chris Condon talks about adapting Barry Gordon’s acclaimed novel Night People for Oni Press in Episode 626 of the Wayne’s Comics Podcast this week!
Happy Anniversary! The podcast is now 13 years old, so to celebrate, we feature two great interviews! It starts with Dave Baker from Mary Tyler Moorehawk and then wraps up with the creators from Invader Comics’ Neurocron!
We’re in it for the Long Haul in Episode 624 as Wayne talks with this comic’s co-scripter Heath Amodio!
In Episode 623, we explore a lost Jack Kirby masterpiece with Tom Kraft and Rand Hoppe from the Jack Kirby Museum!
The podcast kicks off 2024 in Episode 622 with the return of Cullen Bunn, a terrific comics creator!
It’s time to wrap up 2023 in Episode 621 with a great conversation with an excellent up-and-coming comics creator, Olivia Cuartero-Briggs!
In Episode 620, Patrick Lay from Dark Horse’s upcoming Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis graphic novel along with a holiday tradition! Patrick and I talk about this timely and timeless original graphic novel from him as artist and journalist Dave Maas, due in bookstores on January 23 and in comics shops on January 24. [...]
Have you been reading T-Bird & Throttle, a high-octane Indie comic? This week, in Episode 619, creator/writer/artist Josh Howard discusses his excellent book!
Antarctica is a hot Indie book from Top Cow, and this week Wayne brings back creator Simon Birks from Blue Fox Comics to talk about it! Simon has been bringing a lot of excellent Indie comics to us, and now Top Cow has just released issue #6 of Antarctica. This series is described this way: [...]
Episode #604 is a first-ever Zoop.gg doubleheader, featuring interviews with Tony Gregori and William O. Tyler!
Episode #602 features Wayne’s fun discussion with Frankie B. Washington, one of the creators of Kaijus and Cowboys, which has a Kickstarter campaign coming this week!
Creator Tracy Butler is here this week in Episode #601, and she’s talking about her book and animated series called Lackadaisy, now being supported on BackerKit! Lackadaisy is described this way: “Once the pride of St. Louis’ swingin’ Prohibition Era, shabby little speakeasy Lackadaisy is barely hanging on in 1927.” It focuses on the unassuming [...]
Special Episode #600 features a great conversation with Benjamin Morse from August: Purgatory Underground – Book One!
Comics creator Wells Thompson is back this week in Episode #599, and he’s talking about his new book with Rachel Distler called The Catskin and the Rose, now being supported on Kickstarter!
This week in Episode #598, comics scribe and editor Eric Palicki returns to talk about the second mini-series of Black’s Myth, the acclaimed punk rock horror book!
Ed Brisson returns to the podcast this week in Episode #596, and we discuss his upcoming Marvel’s Alpha Flight mini-series as well as his current DC title Batman Incorporated!
This week in Episode #595, you’ll enjoy the return of Caleb Palmquist talking about his crowdfunding for Unicorn: Vampire Hunter: Volume 1!
James Aquilone, accomplished horror writer/editor, returns to the Wayne’s Comics Podcast in Episode #594!
Episode #593 of the Wayne’s Comics Podcast features creator/writer Alexander Banchitta, who discusses his two latest releases!
Jorge Molina, an illustrator and concept artist who is a creative force in the comics industry, talks with Wayne in Episode #592 of the Wayne’s Comics Podcast!
This week Wayne talks with Bill Slavin of Secrets of Jarrow from Renegade Entertainment, in Episode #591 of the Wayne’s Comics Podcast!
Jason Copland from Full Tilt at Zoop.gg is the guest this week in Episode #590 of the Wayne’s Comics Podcast!
Episode #588 is another great doubleheader, featuring interviews with William Simpson and Louis Southard!
Mark A. Nelson and Jeff Ryan are interviewed this week during another great crowdfunding doubleheader in Episode #587! Mark A. Nelson is a comic industry veteran who has tackled work for just about every publisher in the industry. His book, Thunder Hunters, is now available for support on zoop.gg, which you can support here! It’s [...]
It’s the return of two favorites this week! Mark Russell and David Whalen are back in two great crowdfunding interviews in Episode #586!
This week in Episode #585, you’ll enjoy great crowdfunding doubleheader interviews, and it features comics pro Zach Howard and the return of Caleb Palmquist!
In Episode #583 this week, Wayne Hall talks with Jeff Haas from The End of All: Terminus!
Matt D. Wilson from Impostor Syndicate on Zoop.gg is the guest this week in Episode #582!
This week in Episode #581, you’ll enjoy high-octane doubleheader interviews, and it features the return of both Dennis Culver and Madeleine Holly-Rosing! It all begins with Dennis Culver from DC’s Unstoppable Doom Patrol, and their debut issue will be released this week! It’s described this way: “Saving the world by saving the monsters!” We discuss [...]
It’s a great crowdfunding doubleheader week here during Episode #580, and it features the return of Dalton Shannon and Sam Johnson! Everything kicks off with Dalton Shannon, who has a Kickstarter underway with Wells Thompson for their MechaTon series that will conclude Wednesday, March 22, at 7:15 PM EDT. It’s described this way: “A slacker, [...]
Episode #579 features a great conversation with Benjamin Morse from We Are Scarlet Twilight #4!
It’s a great doubleheader week here during Episode #575, and it features conversations with Steven Kaul and Lyndon Radchenka, and Anthony Stokes!
Episode #574 features a great conversation with Jeff Messer from Sex, Spies, & Rock ‘n Roll!
Kraig Rasmussen from Odds & Ends: Books I and II is the guest this week in Episode #573!
Episode #572 features Wayne’s interview with Paul Allor from Pink Midnight Presents The Butterfly House this week!
In Episode 570, Wayne has a great conversation with Phoebe Xavier, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of 1-2-3 Go Publications!
Writer and creator Christian Tropeano from Beyond the Beyond is the perfect guest to launch into 2023 in Episode #569!
There’s no better way to wrap up 2022 in Episode 568 than to have a conversation with one of the very best writer/artists in comics today, Phillip Sevy!
In Episode 567, it’s the return of Matt Schorr from Moby Dick: Back from the Deep and Flight of the Phantasmadactyls along with a holiday tradition!
It’s another great doubleheader week here during Episode #566, and it features conversations with Austin Hough and I.N.J. Culbard!
Writer and co-creator B. Clay Moore from The Whistling Skull at Zoop.gg is the guest this week in Episode #565!
Don’t miss my great conversation with Eisner-nominated and award-winning author Ram V this week in Episode #564!
This week’s show, #563, is an excellent doubleheader episode, featuring interviews with Alisa Kwitney and Paul Cornell!
Another great doubleheader episode this week, featuring conversations with Gerald J. Jones and Edmund Trueman in Episode #562!
Episode #561 is a crowdfunding tripleheader, with JM DeMatteis, Matt Lesniewski, and Insymmetry Creations!
Christopher Michael and George Michail are the featured guests this week in Episode #560!
Jeffrey Eyser from the 'Revenge Of' local comics shop in L.A. is the guest during Episode #559!
Episode #558 features conversations with Star Trek creators during the recent New York Comic Con!
Episode #557 has a fun interview with Dalton K. Shannon and Wells Thompson from Four Colour Comics!
Special Episode #555 features the return of Lynsey G. and Jayel Draco from Oneshi Press!
Episode #554 is a great doubleheader featuring interviews with Tom Pinchuk from Clash of the Classics and Nandor Shaffer from Man-Child!
It’s the return of Dave Chisholm from Enter the Blue via Z2 Comics in Episode #553 this week!
Episode #549 features a fun interview with Garrett Gunn from Good Boy via Source Point Press!
Paul Cornell & Steve Yeowell from Three Little Wishes and Caleb Palmquist from Unicorn: Vampire Hunter are featured in Episode #548 this week!
James Aquilone from the Shakespeare Unleashed Kickstarter is Wayne’s guest in Episode 544!
Episode #543 features a great interview with Chris Ryall from Groom Lake: Grey Skies Above, which you can now support on Zoop.gg!
Chris Stevens from The Golem of Venice Beach and Matt Kindt from Flux House are featured in Episode #542 this week!
Pulitzer Prize finalist Matt Bors and acclaimed filmmaker Ben Clarkson discuss their new title Justice Warriors from Ahoy Comics this week in Episode 540!
Episode 539 features the return of Dave Romeo, the owner and operator of Comics on the Green, one of the very best comics shops around!
Episode 537 features Samuel Sattin, one of the creative forces behind UNICO: AWAKENING, a re-imagining of the classic manga.
He’s back! Sam Johnson from Geek-Girl and Cabra Cini Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman is the guest in Episode 535!
Episode 534 features writer/creator Laurie Calcaterra from Path of the Pale Rider, now on Kickstarter!
Eisner-nominated creator Ibrahim Moustafa from RetroActive and Count is Wayne’s guest in Episode 533.
This week in Episode 531, Alek Shrader from Carmen: The Graphic Novel on Kickstarter is Wayne’s guest!
Eisner-nominated writer Nate Cosby from Alter Ego is featured this week in Episode 530!
Caleb Thusat is back in Episode 528, and he’s talking about his new Kickstarter for The Neverland #1!
In Episode #527, Wayne talks with the creators of Dead Dreams: The Lucid Chronicles #1, Brittany Matter and Dailen Ogden! Their crowdfunding is on zoop.gg at this link: Dead Dreams: The Lucid Chronicles #1 - Zoop!
Wayne has a fun conversation with Mignolaverse writer Rob Williams from Sword of Hyperborea in Episode 526!
It’s Episode 524 of the Wayne’s Comics Podcast, and this week Wayne talks with Caleb Palmquist from Vampire Detective in Space!
Episode 523 features Wayne’s conversation with Warwick Johnson-Cadwell of Falconspeare from Dark Horse!
James Aquilone from Kolchak the Night Stalker Kickstarter is Wayne’s guest in Episode 522!
In Episode #521, Wayne talks with Matt Mair Lowery from Thoughtscape Comics #1-2 at zoop.gg, a sci-fi anthology comic!
Comics creator and educator Ryan Claytor is Wayne’s special guest in Episode #520, and they discuss his Kickstarter for A Hunter’s Tale!
Episode 517 kicks off 2022 with my excellent interview with Manuel Godoy from Black Sands Entertainment, who has a major event coming this Friday!
We wrap up 2021 in Episode 516 with my great conversation with Jonathan Hedrick from Freakshow Princess and Capable!