Announcing the First Group of Special Guests for Comic-Con 2025!
Special Guests for 2025 will include J. M. DeMatteis, Emil Ferris, Daniel Warren Johnson, J. G. Jones, and Paul Karasik.
J. M. DeMatteis
Eisner Award winner J. M. DeMatteis was a musician and rock music journalist before launching a long career writing novels, television, film and, of course, comic books. He has created a variety of memorable projects, from the superheroics of Spider-Man and Captain America to the personal visions of Brooklyn Dreams and Moonshadow and his celebrated collaborations with Keith Giffen on Justice League, Hero Squared and other titles. Recent projects include the novellas The Excavator and The Witness; Amazon Prime’s animated Batman: Caped Crusader; and the DeMultiverse line of comics: Godsend, Anyman, Wisdom, and Layla in the Lands of After.
Emil Ferris
Emil Ferris is the author and artist of the acclaimed My Favorite Thing Is Monsters series. Among other honors, she has received multiple Eisner Awards, multiple Ignatz Awards, the Lambda Literary Award, the Grand Prix de la Critique ACBD, the Fauve d’or at FIBD, and the 2025 Whiting Award. She was recently appointed to the rank of Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters. She grew up in Chicago during the turbulent 1960s, where she still lives, and is consequently a devotee of all things monstrous and horrific. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Daniel Warren Johnson
Daniel Warren Johnson is a Chicago-based comic book writer, artist, and illustrator who has worked with Image, Skybound, DC, Marvel, Wizards of the Coast, and many other clients. His work includes such titles as Beta Ray Bill, The Ghost Fleet, Murder Falcon, Space-Mullet, Wonder Woman: Dead Earth, The Moon Is Following Us, the Eisner Award–nominated Extremity, and the Eisner Award–winning Do a Powerbomb and Transformers.
J. G. Jones
J. G. Jones is celebrating his 30th year as an illustrator and author of comic books. A three-time Eisner Award nominee, he is best known for his work on Black Widow, Marvel Boy, Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia, WANTED, 52, Final Crisis, and, most recently, Dust to Dust.
Paul Karasik
Two-time Eisner Award winner Paul Karasik is an internationally recognized cartoonist and teacher who began his career as the associate editor of Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly’s RAW magazine. His works include the graphic novel adaptation of Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy (with David Mazzuchelli and Lorenzo Mattotti), How To Read Nancy (with Mark Newgarden), The Complete Fletcher Hanks, and The Ride Together, a Memoir of Autism in the Family (with Judy Karasik). Paul’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Vineyard Gazette, and The New Yorker.