Announcing the Second Wave of Comic-Con 2025 Guests!
In addition to the five names announced previously, Comic-Con is pleased to welcome Julio Anta, Alison Bechdel, Eddie Campbell, Todd Klein, and Jonathan Maberry as Special Guests for 2025!
Julio Anta
Julio Anta is the author of many graphic novels, including the Eisner Award–nominated Frontera, This Land Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story, Speak Up Santiago, Home, and Si, Se Puede. He is the recipient of the Children’s Book Council’s Young Adults’ Favorites Award and a New York State Council on the Arts grant. His work has been published by DC, Marvel, Image, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and more. Julio was born and raised in Miami, Florida and currently resides in New York City, where he works to tell narratively rich stories for audiences of all ages.
Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel’s work includes the pioneering comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For (1983–2008), and the graphic memoirs Fun Home, Are You My Mother? and The Secret to Superhuman Strength. Fun Home was adapted into a musical in 2015 that received five Tony Awards. In her work, Bechdel is preoccupied with the overlap of the political and the personal spheres. She is the recipient of Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, as well as an Eisner Award. She was inducted into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame in 2020. Her newest book, Spent: A Comic Novel, is hot off the press.
Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell is best known as the artist of From Hell, written by Alan Moore. He also writes his own stuff, including the two volumes of Bacchus; Alec: The Years Have Pants, which collects 30 years of his autobiographical comics; and the latest in that line, The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell. Lately he has been dabbling in writing about the history of cartooning, as in The Goat Getters and Kate Carew: America’s First Great Woman Cartoonist. Eddie has been living in Chicago since 2016.
Todd Klein
Todd Klein’s comics career began in 1977 when he was hired to work in the DC Comics production department. During ten years on staff there, he tried many kinds of freelance work, including writing, inking, and coloring, but lettering suited him best, and he developed a freelance career as a letterer and logo designer. After leaving staff in 1987, Todd continued to work mainly for DC, but also for Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, and Disney, among others. He has lettered over 75,000 comics pages and covers and designed over 800 logos. He has won 16 Eisner Awards for Best Letterer.
Jonathan Maberry
Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author of over 50 novels, a five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and a four-time Scribe Award winner. He writes comics (Marvel, IDW, Dark Horse, IPI) and is an executive producer and writing teacher. His V-Wars was a Netflix original series; Rot & Ruin is in development for film with Alcon Entertainment; and his Joe Ledger thrillers are being developed for TV by Chad Stahelski (director, John Wick). He writes horror, sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, thrillers, and more. He’s president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and the editor of Weird Tales Magazine.