Comic-Con 2025
Fifth Wave of Comic-Con 2025 Guests Announced
In addition to the 20 names already announced, Comic-Con is pleased to welcome Michael Cho, Max Allan Collins, Nick Dragotta, Liniers, and Bianca Xunise as Special Guests for 2025.
Michael Cho
Michael Cho is a Toronto-based cartoonist and illustrator whose bold, vintage-inspired artwork regularly appears on covers for Marvel, DC Comics, and others. His illustrations have also been featured in everything from Star Wars and Star Trek to Fortnite, Disney, and the Joe Biden presidential campaign. He’s received several awards for his work, and his art book Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes was published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2012. His debut graphic novel Shoplifter (Pantheon, 2014) was a New York Times bestseller, and his newest project, The Avengers in the Veracity Trap, a Silver Age–style graphic novel created with Chip Kidd for Abrams’ MarvelArts line, is set to hit shelves in August.
Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and four-time winner of the PWA Shamus Award for his Nathan Heller novels. His graphic novel Road to Perdition became an Academy Award–winning film, and his produced screenplays include Mommy and The Last Lullaby, based on his Quarry novels, also the basis of a Cinemax series. He completed 14 Mike Hammer novels from Mickey Spillane’s files, and (with his wife Barbara) he writes the Antiques mysteries. Max’s comics credits include Dick Tracy, Batman, and co-creations Ms. Tree and Wild Dog.
Nick Dragotta
Nick Dragotta is one of the most dynamic stylists and storytellers in comics today. His fluid, high-energy artwork captured readers’ attention on various Marvel projects, eventually leading to his breakout success on Fantastic Four with writer Jonathan Hickman. They reunited for the apocalyptic sci-fi Western East of West at Image Comics, a series nominated for multiple Eisner Awards that highlighted his talent for creating iconic characters, intense action, and breathtaking landscapes. He’s since co-written and illustrated Ghost Cage with Caleb Goellner. He is now co-creating and drawing the hit series Absolute Batman with writer Scott Snyder for DC Comics.
Liniers
Born in Argentina in 1973, Ricardo Liniers Siri (a.k.a. Liniers) is the creator of the daily strip Macanudo and graphic novels for younger readers, including the Eisner Award–winning Good Night, Planet. The Macanudo strip has been syndicated in the U.S. since September 2018 by King Features and received the National Cartoonists’ Society Reuben Award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip in 2021. It has been nominated as a finalist for the 2025 Reuben Awards. Liniers has also received a nomination in the 2025 Eisner Awards for Best Publication for Early Readers: Night Stories (Astra Books/Toon Books). Coming from Papercutz in September is The Ghost Of Wreckers Cove, in which Liniers and writer Angelica del Campo re-create the world of 19th-century lighthouse keepers in a delightful supernatural tale about ghosts and shipwrecks.
Bianca Xunise
NAACP Image Award winner Bianca Xunise is an illustrator, writer, and educator based out of Chicago. With two Ignatz Awards under their belt, Bianca enjoys being a voice for those who march to the beat of their own drum. In 2020, Bianca became the first nationally syndicated non-binary cartoonist when they joined the comic strip Six Chix. When Bianca isn’t doodling away, they are usually at an underground DIY punk show dancing with friends by the Chicago riverside. Their graphic novel Punk Rock Karaoke debuted in 2024 with rave reviews.