Comic-Con 2026
Fifth Wave of Comic-Con 2026 Guests Announced
In addition to the 20 names already announced, Comic-Con is pleased to welcome Steven Butler, Matt Dinniman, Jim Lee, Shawn Martinbrough, and LeUyen Pham as Special Guests for 2026.
Steven Butler
Steven Butler is a 37-year veteran comic book creator who has worked for a wide variety of companies on many well-known titles, including The Badger for First Comics; Web of Spider-Man, Silver Sable and the Wildpack, and Punisher War Journal for Marvel Comics; Superman for DC Comics; Sonic The Hedgehog and Betty and Veronica: The New Look for Archie Comics, many stories for Disney Adventures Magazine, and more. Currently, Steven is teaming up with his daughter Lily Butler to work as a daddy-daughter team for Archie on comics featuring stories of the classic Archie gang as well as creating new and original comics for their DUO Publishing imprint.
Matt Dinniman
Matt Dinniman is a writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Washington. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series, along with several other books about the end of the world. He doesn’t really hate cocker spaniels, and he plays bass in one band.
Jim Lee
Jim Lee, the world-renowned comic book artist, writer, editor, and publisher, is currently president, publisher, and chief creative officer of DC. He leads creative efforts to integrate DC’s publishing portfolio of characters and stories across all media, supporting Warner Bros. Discovery’s family of brands and studios. Jim joined DC in 1998 and has overseen many of the company’s highly successful publishing programs, including the Rebirth line of comics and The New 52 initiative that relaunched the entire line of monthly superhero comic books. As part of the revamp, Lee designed and reimagined the new, more contemporary costumes for some of the DC Universe’s most iconic characters, including Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. Jim holds a BA in psychology from Princeton University and started his professional career at Marvel Comics, where his work on the X-Men continues to hold the all-time sales record for single-issue sales.
Shawn Martinbrough
Shawn Martinbrough is an Eisner Award–nominated artist whose comic book projects include Batman: Detective Comics, Luke Cage Noir, The Black Panther, Hellboy, Thief of Thieves, Promethee 13:13, Anansi Boys, and the NAACP Image Award–nominated, bestselling kid’s book Like Lava in My Veins (published by Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Kids). He is the writer of Red Hood: The Hill for DC Comics, is co-author of Judge Kim and the Kids’ Court for Simon & Schuster, and is currently writing and illustrating original graphic novels for Megascope/Abrams Books, Image Comics, Ignition Press and First Second/23rd Street Books.
LeUyen Pham
LeUyen Pham is the artist of over 120 books for adults and children. Her graphic novels include the multi-Eisner Award–winning Lunar New Year Love Story with Gene Yang, the Eisner Award–nominated Templar, and the bestselling Friends series with Shannon Hale. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Caldecott Honor, The Society of Illustrator’s Bronze Medal, and the Fay B. Kaigler Southern Miss Medallion. She is the creator of the Vampirina book series, which has been adapted to both animation and live action with Disney. Her latest graphic novel is As I Dream of You, written by Jenn Lee, the creator of Frozen.