The Short Box Podcast: A Comic Book Talk Show

Updated: 26 Nov 2025 • 567 episodes
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Can’t make it to your local comic shop? The Short Box brings the comic shop experience straight to your headphones.  Join your friendly neighborhood podcast host: Badr Milligan, every Wednesday for news, reviews, and interviews about comics. Learn how your favorite comic books are made, with the creators who make them, and laugh along with surprise guests and other die-hard fans. Whether you’re a longtime collector or a casual reader, The Short Box is essential listening on New Comic Book Day, and a must-listen comic book podcast for all fans.  Join The Short Box Nation on Patreon.com/theshortbox to listen to bonus episodes and get other exclusive perks!

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This episode was originally released in September 2023, as Ep. 401  Brian Wiedman a Comic Book Consignment Director at Heritage Auctions, joins the show for episode #401, to talk about the busy life of a comic auctioneer, setting a world record for the highest Batman comic ever sold, and gives a tour of some rare comic

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This episode was originally released in May 2024, as Ep. 427  Sanford Greene joins the show to talk about his new Marvel comic: Doom #1, a passion project and love letter to Marvel"s top super villain and monarch. Sanford also talks about the comic scene in the Carolinas, his early career, finding influence from MF DOO

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Rapper, producer, and comic writer: Esoteric (of 7LES & Czarface) is on the show to talk about all things comic books and hip-hop. Eso breaks down the origin of Czarface and the group’s comic book influences, his writing/ creative process, fatherhood, working with LaMour Supreme, MF DOOM and Ghostface, meeting comic bo

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DSTLRY founders and Comixology pioneers, David Steinberger and Chip Mosher, are on the show to talk about their new digital comics platform: Neon Ichiban, and what comic fans can expect from the digital storefront and their patent-pending feature: Neon Ichiban Remarques. David and Chip also settle the digital collectib

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Stephanie Williams (Nubia: Queen of the Amazons, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Spider-Verse Unlimited) joins the show to talk about how she went from working in biomedical science, to being Twitter famous, to landing a job at Marvel and DC as a professional comic writer. We also discuss internet fame, writing the new S

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Two short interviews in one episode, both recorded at New York Comic Con: First up, is a conversation with Aub Driver (Head of Marketing, IDW Publishing) and Gregg Katzman (Sr. Publicity Manager, IDW Publishing) about the state of IDW, what goes into marketing comics, the creative teams on the publisher, and they share

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