Announcing the Final Group of Special Guests for Comic-Con 2024
Comic-Con welcomes Paul Levitz, Tim Powers, Scott Shaw!, and Maggie Thompson as Special Guests, joining the previously announced 46 creators.
Paul Levitz
Paul Levitz has been a comics fan (The Comic Reader), editor (Batman), writer (Legion of Super-Heroes), executive (decades at DC Comics, ending as President & Publisher), and historian (Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel) and now teaches subjects related to comics and transmedia at Pace University and Columbia University. His 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking won an Eisner Award and international awards, and he has been inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Hall of Fame. A new edition of his acclaimed collaboration with Keith Giffen, Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga, is being published by DC in August.
Tim Powers
Tim Powers is the author of 18 science fiction and fantasy novels, including The Anubis Gates, My Brother’s Keeper, and On Stranger Tides, which was the basis of the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have won the World Fantasy Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, the Prix Apollo (France), and the Gigamesh Award (Spain). Powers lives in San Bernardino, California, with his wife, Serena.
Scott Shaw!
For over 50 years, Scott Shaw! has written and drawn underground comix (Gory Stories, Fear and Laughter), mainstream comics (Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!, Sonic the Hedgehog, Simpsons Comics), children’s books (the Marooned Lagoon series), syndicated strips (Bugs Bunny, Woodsy Owl), graphic novels (Shrek, Annoying Orange), TV cartoons (Jim Henson’s Muppet Babies, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, Camp Candy), toys (McFarlane Toys’ Hanna-Barbera and Simpsons figures), trading cards (Garbage Pail Kids, Oddball Comics), advertising (Post Pebbles cereal featuring the Flintstones), T-shirts (MeTV’s Svengoolie), and music album art (The Monkees’ A Barrel Full of Monkees and Just Us and San Diego’s Staring at the Sun and Spice Train). Current projects include Scott’s Kilgore Home Nursing for David Lloyd’s Aces Weekly, Scott Shaw!s Comix & Stories (a collection of early material), and Image’s Li’l Dragon, his spinoff of Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon. For TwoMorrows, Scott writes a regular column for Retrofan magazine and is finishing his 200-page Oddball Comics book. Scott has received Emmys, an Eisner Award, and a Humanitas Award for his work.
Maggie Thompson
When she was four years old, Maggie’s parents encouraged her to love and collect comic books. Years later, she met another pop culture fan, and she and Don Thompson were soon collecting, writing, and editing comics-connected material together. Thirty years after Don’s death, she describes herself as a “celebrity-adjacent award-winning pop culture nerd” with a career that includes early comics fanzine publishing and 30 years as editor of Comics Buyer’s Guide. These days, she provides a weekly post for Gemstone Publishing’s Scoop newsletter and information for Fantagraphics’ Pogo reprints. She was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Hall of Fame in 2020. She encourages kids to enjoy comics old and new!