Nerds, Old and New: ‘The New Nerd’ now on Amazon

New to Amazon Prime Video comes The New Nerd, an interview series from Yahzilla Productions highlighting Black Nerd Creators. Each episode is a 10-15 minute conversation with a different creator, with questions designed to dive into their craft, their nerd faves, and their feelings about being a Black nerd in America. Overall, it is a good way to see some new faces and find a new creator to look up and follow. The Creators Joshua Bullock of Monarchs, image courtesy of Blerd.com All of the folks interviewed are Black and nerds, although some of them don’t like to think of themselves as Black nerds, for their own reasons. That aside, each of them is making moves in their field to influence their chosen medium. Joshua Bullock, the only creator outside of NYC, is an animator and comic creator from Indiana. His comic indie, Monarchs, is being produced by NOiR Ceasar, which we featured last month. Next up is ChibiThot, an Instagrammer/cosplayer with plenty of advice for new cosplayers. Yedoye Travis, an actor/comedian, gives some great perspectives on how those things are influenced, or not, by his fandoms. The last episode (thus far) is my personal favorite — a series of conversations with game developers at the Game Developers of Color Conference in Harlem. Altogether, the interviews are easy and accessible, not requiring a lot of nerd knowledge to find interesting. The similarities between the creators quickly come to the fore: Dragonball and Super Smash Bros. come up quite a b…