McElroy: Fine! Because I wanted to win an Eisner Award! Happy?

McElroy: Oh, and I suppose Frank Miller didn’t adapt the Sin City comic from the delightful Sin City movie? McElroy: Well, Spider-Man originally was a Saturday morning cartoon show with this great theme song that. Paste: How did y’all decide to turn a podcast into a comic and why?Ĭlint McElroy: All the great comics started out in other media. The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins Cover Art by Carey Pietsch Pietsch and patriarch Clint McElroy answered some of our questions about the book, with some interruptions from the voice of God because you cannot keep that dude from setting the record straight sometimes. You could call it FNBN (for nerds, by nerds). The McElroy clan has collaborated with Carey Pietsch ( Lumberjanes, Adventure Time, Mages of Mystralia), a force in her own right, to adapt the first leg of the story into The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins, due out from publisher First Second today. It’s arc-based storytelling, which makes it quite well suited for adaptation into a comic book.

The three McElroy brothers (Justin, Travis and Griffin) and their father, Clint, D&D it through fantastic realms, encountering monsters, solving puzzles and dicking around. The Adventure Zone podcast has been going strong for four years, and although it started as a spin-off of My Brother, My Brother, and Me, it has its own intense cult following.

Here There Be Gerblins by Clint McElroy