Artist/Creator/Writer Sweeney Boo joins to talk Cruella De Vil and more!

February 22, 2026·39 min·3 clips

Sweeney Boo shares why she finds Disney villains like Cruella de Vil more fascinating than heroes.

Dynamite kicks the comics talk into gear. The host ties the book to the larger Disney villains line, brings up the recent Chuck Brown interview about Scar, and lands on the very familiar retailer joke about piles of issue-one covers. Of course the covers come up early. That shop-side chatter gives the episode some grit, because the comic is treated like an actual thing readers spot, buy, pass on, or chase. Then Sweeney Boo gets space to talk process. She says clear rules can help, because boundaries give her something to push against instead of leaving every option floating around at once. That part feels lived in. Freedom does not get dressed up as magic here. Too many choices can become the trap, and knowing where the walls are makes it easier to decide which ones are worth cracking. The collaboration talk is just as grounded. She keeps circling back to everyone getting on the same page, keeping ego out of the room, and caring about whether the team and the readers end up happy. The host follows that into the craft question: is it harder to handle both the art and the writing, or to take another writer's script and focus on making the story work through images? Her answer is honest. Art alone can be easier because the job narrows. Writing her own scripts can also feel simpler, since she already knows what needs to happen. Carrying both sides is where it gets tense. She worries that the art or the story could fall behind, especially while she is still learning pacing from writers with more industry time. So the episode plays less like a shiny pitch and more like a working creator conversation about constraints, readers, pages, and pressure. Kickstarter slips in near the end, with five days left for Dynamite comics, before the feed drifts back into the unrelated Danish ad copy around the excerpt.

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