Indie comics talk from the creator table.
SeerNova Radio sits in the working room of indie comics, talking with creators about books in progress, Kickstarter tactics, editing, lettering, and shared-universe plans. The tone is casual and joke-heavy, but the conversations keep returning to practical choices behind finished pages and funded campaigns.
PRESS PLAY
SeerNova Radio is a comics-industry hangout with its feet planted in indie publishing. The show favors conversation over polish. Guests arrive with active books, anthology work, campaign pages, convention plans, editing experience, or stories about how a character first took shape. Ray Jamison talks about the Mad Caps and the choice to let a mini-series finish cleanly. Laurie Calcaterra brings Path of the Pale Rider, campaign momentum, stretch goals, and the stubbornness required to keep a long-running comic moving. J. Michael Miller and Adam Barnhart discuss Summit Comics, Summit Pinnacle, writing, lettering, and shared superhero-world ambitions. Steve Colle brings a longer view of retail, submissions editing, publishing, freelance editing, and Comic Book Editors Alliance. Other conversations move through Sketch Night, Blood and Fire Ice and Bone, comic cons, cosplay, printing math, Indiegogo follow-ups, and the useful parts of AI-assisted planning. The format is conversational and sometimes messy in a way that reveals the actual room: names get joked about, tech gets adjusted, and guests are asked the basic but useful question of who they are and what they do. It also wanders. Those detours matter. Stranger Things leads into endings that overstay their welcome, Cowboy Bebop becomes a model for leaving people wanting more, Dragon Ball Z raises questions about story cycles, and Thundercats opens a lane into animation memory and reboot culture. The result is not a formal masterclass. It is closer to listening at a creator table after setup, where campaign strategy, craft instincts, old fandom arguments, and industry survival all blur together. The show best serves listeners who want indie comics as a living scene, not a finished product on a shelf.
Made for: For indie comics readers, crowdfunding followers, small-press creators, artists, writers, letterers, and convention regulars who enjoy process-heavy conversation with a casual tone.
What sets it apart: SeerNova Radio pairs practical campaign and production talk with unfiltered creator-room banter. It catches the indie comics ecosystem mid-motion, from stretch goals and anthologies to endings, nostalgia, and convention-floor problem solving.
Learn and listen to the visionaries behind SeerNova Comics about their goals, dreams, aspirations, and interviews with indie creators.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
SeerNova Radio makes indie-comics creation legible by connecting storytelling choices with collaboration, crowdfunding, printing, promotion, and convention life.
SeerNova Radio lets comic creators tell the less polished story behind the finished page. Conversations move between early creative impulses, building fictional worlds, finding collaborators, and turning an idea into a book people can actually buy.
This is the green room where your comic pitch meets Kickstarter math and a hockey tangent.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Ray Jamison's childhood love of comics leads to a conversation about consequences and endings.
On Sierra Nova Podcast, Ray Jamison talks about the third and final issue of The Mad Caps mini-series. He also remembers watching cartoons with his older brother as a child, an early part of his love of comics and related stories.
A comic creator discusses his second book and plans for connected stories in Summit's shared superhero world.
The guest discusses writing a second comic and gives a cautious account of Summit Comics, a shared superhero universe planned to begin with an anthology. He describes connected stories, an ongoing series, and one-shots by other creators that would help build out a city.
A comic creator's crowdfunding encore anchors a loose conversation about comics, shows, and films.
A comic creator has a practical answer for what happens after a Kickstarter campaign: bring the books to Indiegogo with different covers. That second outing was planned from the start, and the books thank backers from both campaigns.
Mark's frog comic idea leads to convention stories and the costs of printing a comic.
Mark traces Frankie Crossroads back to a drive along Route 28 in Herkimer. He was listening to blues and hearing frogs by the road when he thought of a frog learning to play the blues. The idea took him to his college library, where he began sketching.
A creator roundtable turns to how comics reached readers in Argentina.
The comic creator roundtable spends a little time on introductions before finding its most interesting thread: how books reach readers. Aaron Wroblewski talks through several series he has written and created.
A Craigslist post connects two comic creators and starts a friendship that becomes a company.
W. Frank Walk traces a comics project back to a story he began writing one night in 2014. It grew to 1,200 pages before he broke it into parts. Looking for help with a comic book, he posted on Craigslist.
Fandom recap with receipts and side roads.
Moon Knight talk with lore-soaked judgment.
Fast takes for lore-sick fans.
Joel Rodriguez discusses indie comic publishing business strategies and charity work on the SeerNova Podcast.
Matt Campbell discusses his work expanding the comic book audience through his comic series Mythica and his publishing company Actionland Studios.
Ian Miller (Triple Threat Comics) and Peter (Medallion Comics) reopen The Nova Files after a long gap, covering the leaked Avatar: The Last Airbender animated film and the Looney Tunes cancellation of Coyote vs.
Ray Jamison discusses the origin and final issue of his comic series Mad Caps, launching on Kickstarter in April.
Laurie Calcaterra discusses her comic series Path of the Pale Rider and the challenges of creating comics.
Hosts introduce guests J.
The hosts discuss the history and rebranding of their podcast due to a cease and desist letter over the acronym SNC.
Steve Colle discusses his 38-year career in the comic book industry, from retail to editing and publishing, and his work educating creators through the Comic Book Editors Alliance.
Brayden Viloria says Sketch Night is 12 issues, then ties it into a larger crossover book.
Aaron Wroblewski says Ezekiel posted a samurai image on Instagram, Aaron replied it would make a "kick-ass character," and that idea became Blood and Fire.
SeerNova Radio S2E24 pairs Mark Merrick, a 62-year-old Herkimer artist and library aide, with Jeffrey August, a tech executive who also writes novels, comics, and records music.
Cigar Novel Podcast gathers Aaron Wroblewski, Guillermo Lutecheco, Don Walker, AJ Cassetta, Peter Clinton, and Mariano for a creator roundtable on independent comics, international access, and visual storytelling.
The hosts and guests banter about technical issues and introduce W.
Joel Rodriguez discusses indie comic publishing and business strategies, with casual banter about jerky and illness.
The hosts discuss upcoming Kickstarter launches and a Pokemon parody trading card set with guest Corissa Grant.