Comic-Con 2025
Comic-Con 2025 Announces Seventh Wave of Special Guests
In addition to its previously announced 30 names, Comic-Con welcomes Mark Evanier, Marcos Martin, Frank Miller, Scott Sigler, and Maggie Thompson as Special Guests for 2025.
Mark Evanier
Mark Evanier attended his first San Diego Comic-Con in 1970 and has been to every one of these annual events ever since. He was then an assistant to the great Jack Kirby, whom he wrote about in his book Kirby, King of Comics. Mark has also written for live-action TV shows, animated TV shows (including various Garfield cartoons) and tons of comic books. The comics include working with Sergio Aragonés for 40 years on Groo the Wanderer, and many more. He is also a historian of comic books and animation.
Marcos Martín
Marcos Martín is a Catalan comic book artist whose work at Marvel and DC includes such titles as Batgirl: Year One, Breach, Absolute Batman, Dr.Strange: The Oath, Amazing Spider-Man, and Daredevil. In 2013 he founded the online platform Panel Syndicate together with writer Brian K. Vaughan and illustrator/colorist Muntsa Vicente in order to distribute their creator-owned comic, The Private Eye, which went on to win an Eisner Award for Best Digital/Webcomic and the Harvey Award for Best Online Comics Work. Friday, his latest series with acclaimed comics writer Ed Brubaker (collected into three books published by Image Comics) has earned them two more Eisner Awards.
Frank Miller
Frank Miller is regarded as one of the most influential creators in the entertainment field today. He began his career in comics in the late 1970s, first gaining notoriety as the artist and later writer of Daredevil for Marvel Comics. Next came the science fiction samurai drama Ronin, followed by the groundbreaking Batman: The Dark KnightReturns and Batman: Year One with artist David Mazzuchelli. Following these seminal works, Miller fulfilled a lifelong dream by doing an all-out crime series, Sin City, which spawned two blockbuster films that he co-directed with Robert Rodriguez. Miller’s multi-award-winning graphic novel 300 was also adapted into a successful film by Zack Snyder. In 2015 Miller was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame for his lifetime of contributions to the industry.
Scott Sigler
New York Times bestselling author Scott Sigler is the creator of 20 novels, 7 novellas, and dozens of short stories. Scott began his career by narrating his unabridged audiobooks and serializing them in weekly installments. He continues to release free episodes every Sunday. Launched in March of 2005, “Scott Sigler Slices” is the world’s longest-running fiction podcast. His fans fervently anticipate their weekly story fix, so much so that they dubbed themselves “Sigler Junkies” and have downloaded over 55 million episodes. An inaugural inductee into the Podcasting Hall of Fame, Scott is a co-founder of Empty Set Entertainment, which publishes his Galactic Football League series. A Michigan native, he lives in San Diego with his wife and their wee little Døgs of Døøm.
Maggie Thompson
When she was 4 years old, Maggie Thompson began collecting comic books, and her parents encouraged her. When she was 18, she and Don Thompson co-edited the pioneering fanzine Comic Art and went on to co-edit and publish a monthly Newfangles comics newsletter. In 1976, the first year they attended Comic-Con, she and Don received Inkpot Awards for Achievement in Fandom Service. Eventually, they became co-editors of Comics Buyer’s Guide and attended Comic-Con every year, as they wrote both for comics and about comics. Following Don’s death in 1994, Maggie continued to collect, write, research, and edit a variety of comics-oriented projects. She edited Comics Buyer’s Guide for three decades and sums up her identity these days as being a “celebrity-adjacent award-winning pop-culture nerd.” She indexes Fantagraphics’ Pogo reprints, puts digest comics into Little Free Library boxes, and encourages everyone to spread the delights of comics old and new to readers young and old.