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Important Information Regarding Programs and Autographs at WonderCon
Celebrity appearances and program schedule are subject to change.
All event and program rooms have limited capacity as set by the Fire Marshal. Even though your badge
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capacity. We do not clear rooms between events. Most autograph signings are of a limited nature.
Your badge does not guarantee autographs at any event.
Please...absolutely no recording of the video footage or images presented by the studios on the screens.
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WonderCon 2012 Special Guests
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Excitement is building for WonderCon's show in Anaheim, CA on March 16-18, 2012. Here's the special guest list - so far! Stay tuned for more special guests to be announced.
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NEW ADDITIONS
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Arthur Adams
artist, Monkeyman and O'Brian, Ultimate Comics: X
Arthur Adams began working in comics at the age of 19, penciling the Longshot limited series published in 1985 by Marvel Comics. He has since worked on many titles for the major comic companies. His own series, Monkeyman and O'Brian, launched in 1993. Arthur is currently working on a fleet of covers for Marvel. He has also done illustrations for trading cards, posters, shirts, magazines, movies, books, and video games and worked in toy design, packaging art, and even label art for X-Men-themed Campbell Soup cans. Arthur lives in Northern California in the woods somewhere, like his hero, Bigfoot.
Sergio Aragonés
cartoonist, Groo, MAD, Sergio Aragonés Funnies
One of MAD magazine's longest-running cartoonists (only Al Jaffee has been around longer) and the creator of dim-witted barbarian Groo the Wanderer, Sergio Aragonés is one of comics' most popular creators. Most recently, the man some call the world's fastest cartoonist launched his own monthly comic book series at Bongo Comics, Sergio Aragonés Funnies.
Ernest Cline
author/screenwriter, Fanboys, Ready Player One
Ernest Cline has worked as a short-order cook, fish gutter, plasma donor, elitist video store clerk, and tech support drone. His primary occupation, however, has always been geeking out, and he eventually threw aside those other promising career paths to express his love of pop culture full-time as a spoken word artist and screenwriter. His 2009 film Fanboys, much to his surprise, became a cult phenomenon. These days Ernie lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, their daughter, and a large collection of classic video games. Ready Player One is his first novel.
Renae De Liz
artist/editor, Womanthology, The Last Unicorn
Renae De Liz has accomplished a lot in her first five years in comics. She illustrated the New York Times bestselling graphic novel adaptation of Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn for IDW, as well as a few other adaptations such as Anne Rice's Servant of the Bones. In 2011 she created and managed Womanthology a 350-page anthology entirely by women with all proceeds going to charity. She raised $109,000 on Kickstarter, becoming the #1 most successful comics project and 25th most successful Kickstarter project of all time. She lives in Maine with her husband, sons, and cats.
Mark Evanier
Writer, Comics Historian, Kirby: King of Comics
Mark Evanier has worked with Jack Kirby; written hundreds of comic books, including Blackhawk, New Gods, Bugs Bunny, The DNAgents, Crossfire, Scooby Doo, and Tarzan; and written dozens of TV shows, both live-action and animated, the latter including most of the animated Garfield shows for the last 20 years. He is the author of several books on comics, including Kirby: King of Comics, which won two Harvey Awards and one Eisner. He has several other Eisners for his work with Sergio Aragonés on Groo the Wanderer and other silly comics. And he's hosted countless panels at both Comic-Con and WonderCon.
Michael Golden
artist, The 'Nam, Micronauts, Bucky O'Hare
Artist/writer/creator Michael Golden, co-creator of the X-Men's Rogue character, Spartan X, and Bucky O'Hare, is known for his groundbreaking work on The 'Nam, Micronauts, G.I. Joe, Dr. Strange, and numerous other characters and titles. He is counted as one of the best cover designers and storytellers in the business. Currently, Golden's work can be seen as the regular cover artist for Spawn, while future work includes a few secret projects for IDW and DC and the Spartan X trade paperback.
Joe Hill
author, Locke and Key, Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hill is the Eisner Award–winning writer of Locke & Key (IDW) and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Horns and Heart-Shaped Box (William Morrow). He lives in New England, where he rules as a cruel snake god, satiated only by a ritual sacrifice of meats and cheeses.
Rebekah Isaacs
artist, Angel & Faith, Magus
Rebekah Isaacs is a penciler/inker best known for DV8: Gods & Monsters with writer Brian Wood and her current work on Angel & Faith with writer Christos Gage and executive producer Joss Whedon. Her career began soon after graduating from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2006, penciling several Devil's Due titles. She landed her first mainstream job with Ms. Marvel #38. Since then she has illustrated several DC and Marvel titles and is having a blast playing in the Buffy universe. She lives in Florida with her fiancée Jon Price, writer of their creator-owned series Magus, and their cat, Fantastic Donut.
Richard Kadrey
author, Sandman Slim, Kill the Dead
Richard Kadrey is the author of seven novels, including Aloha From Hell, Sandman Slim, Kill The Dead, Butcher Bird, and the graphic novel Accelerate. The fourth book in the Sandman Slim fantasy noir series, Devil Said Bang, will be published in October. The Dino De Laurentiis Company is developing Sandman Slim into a feature film. He is also a photographer working under the name Kaos Beauty Klinik.
Carol Lay
cartoonist, WayLay, The Simpsons
Carol Lay's weekly strip, WayLay, ran for almost 20 years in papers in the U.S., including the LA Weekly, NY Press, Salon.com, and Buzzle, and abroad in such places as Tokyo and Hong Kong, Sweden, Norway, and a tiny daily paper on Gibraltar of all places. Lay's strips and illustrations have appeared in Newsweek, MAD magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker. Her books include MYTHOS (Pocketbooks/DC Comics), Goodnight, Irene (Last Gasp), The Big Skinny (Villard/Random House), and three strip collections. She currently writes and draws stories for Simpsons comic books (Bongo). Lay lives in L.A., mostly for the alliteration. For more info visit www.carollay.com.
Jim Lee
artist, Justice League, Batman: Hush; DC Comics co-publisher
Jim Lee is a renowned comic book artist and the co-publisher of DC Entertainment. Prior to his current post, Lee served as editorial director, where he oversaw WildStorm Studios and was also the artist for many of DC Comics' bestselling comic books and graphic novels, including All Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder, Batman: Hush, and Superman: For Tomorrow. He also serves as the executive creative director for the DC Universe Online (DCUO) massively multiplayer action game from Sony Online Entertainment (SOE). As part of DC Comics' The New 52, Lee is drawing Justice League.
Mike Mignola
writer/artist/creator, Hellboy, B.P.R.D.
Mike Mignola is best known as the award-winning creator/writer/artist of Hellboy. He was also visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on both Hellboy and Hellboy 2:The Golden Army. He co-authored (with Christopher Golden) the novel BALTIMORE, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire. Mike lives in southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat.
Todd Nauck
artist, Amazing Spider-Man, Young Justice
Todd Nauck is the artist of the best selling comic book of the last decade, Amazing Spider-Man #583: the Spider-Man/Barack Obama Team-Up. Todd is a well known artist of the comic book industry and works regularly for Marvel and DC Comics, with 17 years of credits including Amazing Spider-Man, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Teen Titans Go, and Young Justice, (now a cartoon on Cartoon Network), as well as countless others. His art was recently prominently featured on the season 8 finale of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition as well as on episodes of ESPN's NFL Sunday Countdown.
Steve Niles
writer/creator, 30 Days of Night, Criminal Macabre, Mystery Society
Steve Niles is best known for such works as 30 Days of Night, Criminal Macabre, Simon Dark, Mystery Society, and Batman: Gotham County Line. He is credited, among other contemporary writers, with bringing horror comics back to prominence, writing and publishing comics and anthologies since the mid 1980s. As a freelance writer, Niles currently works for four of the top American comic publishers: IDW, DC, Image, and Dark Horse. 30 Days of Night was released in 2007 as a major motion picture, and other of his comics are now optioned for film. Niles's zombie comic, Remains, is part of Chiller Network's Chiller Presents series, set to premiere in December.
Eric Powell
writer/artist/creator, The Goon
Eric Powell is a five-time Eisner Award-winning writer and illustrator. He has worked for every major comic publisher but is best known for his dark comedy series The Goon and for pissing off people who don't have a sense of humor. Currently, Eric is collaborating with acclaimed director David Fincher, Blur Animation, and Dark Horse Entertainment to bring The Goon to life on the big screen as an animated feature film.
Humberto Ramos
artist, Amazing Spider-Man, Impulse, Crimson
Humberto Ramos has been drawing comics since 1993, when he began at Milestone Media, followed by Impulse for DC. In 1998 at WildStorm, he co-founded the Cliffhanger imprint with Joe Madureira and J. Scott Campbell, and published the creator-owned series Crimson and Out There. In 2005, he released the creator-owned Revelations through Dark Horse. At Marvel, Ramos has worked on Peter Parker, Spectacular Spider-Man, Wolverine, New X-Men, X-Men, and Runaways. His most recent work includes the "Big Time" and "Spider Island" story arcs in Amazing Spider-Man and the creator-owned Fairy Quest Book 1.
Bob Schreck
editor-in-chief, Legendary Comics
Bob Schreck is the editor-in-chief at Legendary Comics, which recently entered the marketplace with the successful release of Frank Miller's Holy Terror graphic novel. He is currently developing many other new projects for Legendary, including The Tower Chronicles, written by Matt Wagner and illustrated by Simon Bisley. Schreck is a 30-year veteran of the comic book and entertainment industry. He worked for Marvel Comics and Comico: The Comic Company in the 1980s, worked for Dark Horse Comics during the early 1990s, and then started Oni Press in 1997 with business partner Joe Nozemack. In this century, he spent nearly 10 years at DC Comics, where he was in charge of the company's Batman franchise and worked under DC's Vertigo banner.
Scott Snyder
writer, Batman, American Vampire, Swamp Thing
Scott Snyder started his writing career with a collection of his short stories, Voodoo Heart, which was hailed as a "Hot Debut" by Kirkus Reviews in 2006. He soon turned his attention to comics, with early work for Marvel (Iron Man: Noir), and his co-creation of the Vertigo title American Vampire, with artist Rafael Albuquerque, which won both the Eisner and Harvey Awards for Best New Series of 2010. He also wrote an acclaimed run of Detective Comics before launching the new Batman and Swamp Thing titles as part of DC's New 52 line.
Ryan Sook
artist, The Spectre; cover artist, Justice League Dark, DCU Presents
Ryan Sook has been working in comics for the last 15 years as a penciler, inker, and cover artist. His work has appeared in some of comics' most popular titles and alongside some of today's greatest creators, including The Spectre with J. M. DeMatties, B.P.R.D. Hollow Earth with Mike Mignola, Arkham Asylum: Living Hell with Dan Slott, X-Factor with Peter David, Seven Soldiers: Zatanna, and The Return of Bruce Wayne with Grant Morrison, and Wednesday Comics: Kamandi with Dave Gibbons. Currently Ryan is the cover artist for two titles in DC's New 52 line, Justice League Dark and DCU Presents.
Fiona Staples
artist, Mystery Society, SAGA
Fiona Staples is a Canadian artist known both for her covers, which earned her a Joe Shuster award in 2011, and her interior artwork. She's dabbled in everything from horror to superheroes, illustrating series such as Mystery Society and the Eisner-nominated North 40, and doing covers for Superman/Batman, DV8, and T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents. She's currently working on the fantasy epic SAGA with Brian K. Vaughan, due out in 2012 from Image.
Richard Starkings
writer/letterer/designer, Elephantmen
Eisner Award winner Richard Starkings started out as a cartoonist and self-publisher in the UK. He contributed gag strips to Tardis and published four Doctor Who fanzines of his own. He landed work as a lettering artist on the latter issues of Dez Skinn's Warrior, Detective Comics, and Batman: The Killing Joke. Starkings became group editor of the Boys' Adventure titles at Marvel UK, where he broke in Bryan Hitch, Doug Braithwaite, Dan Abnett, Liam Sharp, and Andy Lanning. In the U.S., Starkings created the Comicraft studio, whose fonts are now the mainstay of the lettering industry. But it was always his intention to create and publish his own comic. Image Comics' sleeper hit Elephantmen is that comic.
J. Michael Straczynski
writer, Superman: Earth One
Winner of the Inkpot, Eisner, Hugo, Saturn, and Ray Bradbury Awards, J. Michael Straczynski wrote 2010's wildly popular Superman: Earth One graphic novel, with volume 2 due out in 2012. His current film credits include the story for the first Thor movie (he also wrote the comic), the screenplay for Underworld: Awakening (coming in 2012), and several new movie projects, including Shattered Union and Vanishing Point, both for Bruckheimer/Disney.
Mark Waid
writer/editor, Kingdom Come, Irredeemable, Daredevil
Comics professional Mark Waid has, at one time or another over the past 25 years, held pretty much every job the industry has to offer, from publisher to PR flack to editor to colorist. He is best known, however, as a writer, creator of the Eisner Award-winning Kingdom Come graphic novel with artist Alex Ross, and over 1,200 comics besides, including long runs on The Flash, Fantastic Four, Captain America, Irredeemable, Ruse, and Justice League of America. A well-known comics historian, Waid looks to the future - and the past - with his upcoming line of digital comics, launched in late 2011.
Wil Wheaton
actor/author, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Big Bang Theory
Wil Wheaton's successful acting career began in 1986 with acclaimed roles in Stand By Me and Toy Soldiers. In his teen years, he played wunderkind Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Currently, he plays Evil Wil Wheaton on The Big Bang Theory, notorious hacker Cha0s on Leverage, Doctor Isaac Parrish on Eureka, and Axis of Anarchy leader Fawkes on The Guild. But Wil is much more than just an actor; he's an author, blogger, voice actor, widely followed original Twitter user, and a champion of geek culture. Wil currently splits his time between acting and writing.
Marv Wolfman
writer/editor, New Teen Titans, Tomb of Dracula
Marv Wolfman has created more characters that have gone on to television, animation, movies, and toys than any other comics creator since Stan Lee. Marv is the writer/creator of Blade, the Vampire Hunter and creator of Bullseye, the prime villain in the 2003 Daredevil movie, and he was the writer/creator of the New Teen Titans, a runaway hit show on the Cartoon Network. Marv also writes video games for many companies, including Warners, Sony, Disney, and others. His adaptation of Superman Returns won the industry's "Scribe" award, and his nonfiction book Homeland, The Illustrated History of The State of Israel won the National Jewish Book Award among others.
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