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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 package. This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Jeremy about why he wanted to embrace his inner Stephen King, what the appeal was of releasing two creepy stories in a flip-book format, and what he likes to see in the horror movies he watches.

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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 of the debut volume of Secret S.T.E.A.M. Society, Trevor Mueller (creator of the Albert the Alien series of graphic novels). They chat about just how much research Trevor had to do about horses for the book, how he kept an educational graphic novel from being a boring read, and how adults as well as children could learn a thing or two from the Secret S.T.E.A.M Society.

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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 about the latest entry in the infected zombie universe. Is The Bone Temple a better sequel to 28 Years Later than that film was to 28 Days Later? Find out on this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast!

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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, founding his Blue Fox Comics company, and why the best horror stories are actually tragedies.

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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 POTA TV show just another seventies TV show that resets its adventures at the end of every episode in a world of imagined change? Find out on this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast!

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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 with J.M. to talk about his Kickstarter project, how he's using the funds from it to support Lambda Legal and CHIRLA, and how the horror genre can be an escape from the real horrors that are currently being visited upon certain people in the United States.

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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 Sheydim is a comic about twin sisters who are agents of the Baalei Shem Tov, a secret order of Jewish demon hunters. Aligned with Christian and Muslim monster hunting organizations, Baalei Shem Tov banished the demonic Sheydim from our plane of existence a decade ago, ushering in an unprecedented era of peace. Now the demons have returned and the alliance that defeated them finds itself splintering as the Sheydim begin exact their revenge on humanity. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Jeff about regaining inspiration for his comic work by using his own religious background to craft his story as well as his future plans for his own publishing company, Golem Press.

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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 X-Men but with a twist that exposes how works like those weren't necessarily inclusive as they could have been. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Christopher about his unique take on the superpowered secret society genre and how his retooling of the concept kind of blew Kristian's mind.

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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 chats with Connie and Dallas about creating a children's book for the first time, what changes they made in the latest edition of Hyde, and how they've dealt with imposter syndrome in their own lives in the past.

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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 Tin Tin inhabit. This week Kristian talks with Ari about crafting a comic that is a tribute to his Jewish identity, how Wardens is also a celebration of multiculturalism, and why Jewish creators haven't always focused on telling stories centered around their own heritage.

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