How Matt Dinniman’s ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ Became a Blockbuster NYT | Top Stories By: Alexandra Alter 12 December 2025 at 23:49 Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold. © Dolly Faibyshev for The New York TimesMatt Dinniman signing books at New York Comic Con this fall.