Comic-Con 2014 Special Guests

Jae Lee is a Korean-American comic book artist, known for his dark and elegant style. In 1990, he became one of the youngest artists ever to work for a major publisher. He is an Eisner Award winner for his work on Marvel's The Inhumans. The art from his collaboration with writer Grant Morrison on Fantastic Four: 1234, was featured in an exhibition at the Society of Illustrators in New York City. In 2007, Lee was handpicked by Stephen King for a six-year journey that began with Marvel's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born and culminated with illustrating the Grant edition of Stephen King's The Wind Through the Keyhole novel. Lee has recently completed Before Watchmen: Ozymandias, the prequel to the bestselling graphic novel of all time. He is currently the ongoing artist for one of DC's bestselling titles, Batman/Superman.

Paul Levitz has been a comics fan (The Comic Reader, winner of two Best Fanzine Comic Art Fan Awards), editor (Batman), writer (Legion of Super-Heroes), and executive (38 years at DC, ending as president & publisher). He has received the Inkpot, Clampett Humanitarian, and ComicsPro Industry Appreciation Awards, and he serves on the board of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. His Eisner Award-winning book, 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking, was published by Taschen. Paul is currently updating and revising this book into new separate editions devoted to the Golden Age, Silver Age, and Bronze Age of DC. His recent comics writing appears in World’s Finest, as well as collected editions.

Mike Mignola is best known as the award-winning creator/writer/artist of Hellboy, now celebrating it’s 20th anniversary! He was also visual consultant to director Guillermo del Toro on both Hellboy and Hellboy 2: The Golden Army films. He also co-authored (with Christopher Golden) two novels, BALTIMORE, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, and Joe Golem and the Drowning City. Mignola lives in southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat.

Michelle Nolan has been a journalist and comics/pop cultural historian for nearly 50 years. She has written more than 1,000 articles and columns on comics, pulps, movies, series books, and sports and has published more than 10,000 articles in more than 100 publications. She is the author of Love on the Racks, the definitive history of American romance comics, and Ball Tales, a history of team sports fiction in all media from the 1930s to the 1960s, both published by McFarland. Michelle was a featured columnist in Comic Book Marketplace and Comics Buyer’s Guide, and she occasionally contributes to Alter Ego, the Eisner Award-winning publication edited by Roy Thomas.

One of comics' most acclaimed writers, Denny O'Neil worked briefly in journalism, then moved to New York and comics. Denny brought social consciousness to the medium with the groundbreaking Green Lantern/Green Arrow series. His work on Batman—as writer and editor—returned that character to its dark, gothic roots.