OG: Approved - Cheyenne Ewulu
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Name: Cheyenne Ewulu
Instagram: 38.5K Followers
Tik Tok: 22.1K Followers
Youtube: 17.2K Followers (The Comic Shop)
Who Is Cheyenne Ewulu?
Cheyenne Ewulu turned a comic shop into a sitcom and brought a crowd with her. She writes it, stars in it, and runs it like an indie showrunner. The Comic Shop follows a new owner and her crew trying to keep an independent LA store alive. It feels like the people who live this culture finally got to make the show.
Before that, Ewulu was a geek host and filmmaker inside the world she now writes about. College projects became short documentaries, which led to on-camera work. She learned to shoot, cut, and talk to fans in a way that feels like a conversation, not a broadcast.
First, a small test. Then Cheyenne invited the audience in and let them help pay for a real season. Production updates felt like quick notes from set. She followed with a companion comic to give fans something to hold onto between drops.
The jokes land because the details are lived in: pull lists that go missing, variant debates that get too loud, creator signings that wobble and then fly, the regular pitching their original character. Confessionals actually button. You can tell the beats were written to land on screen, not fixed in the edit.
Production is confident and warm. Clean sound and coverage that knows when to hold on a face and when to cut to the room. The shop looks like a place you could walk into, not a set pretending to be one. Long episodes feel like TV. Short clips carry the hooks that bring new people in.
Cheyenne’s point of view is clear. The camera centers the people who built this culture. Distribution stays simple and personal: full episodes where you can binge, quick scenes and behind-the-scenes clips that show how it gets made. She lets people into the process without breaking the spell.
Three Things We Love About Cheyenne Ewulu
She ships, then levels up: Proof of concept, real audience, season funded, season delivered. Cheyenne kept backers close with plainspoken updates and small wins from set. When the episodes wrapped, she launched a companion comic so the world stayed alive between releases.
Fluency without gatekeeping: Her shop facts are muscle memory: pull-list etiquette, 1:25 variants, Free Comic Book Day chaos, slab versus raw. Ewulu uses those specifics as joke engines, not as walls. Die-hard fans feel seen, casual viewers are never lost.
TV craft with internet timing: Crisp dialogue coverage, confessionals that end on a button, room tone that keeps it real. Clips are framed, captioned, and cropped to travel, then send you back to the full episode. The feed recruits; the season satisfies.