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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