WonderCon 2025
Final Wave of WonderCon Guests Announced
WonderCon 2025 is delighted to welcome Denys Cowan, Mitch Gerads, Derek Kirk Kim, Nicholas Meyer, and Neville Page as Special Guests, joining the 16 guests previously announced.
Denys Cowan
A co-founder of Milestone Media, which sold over 10 million copies of groundbreaking comic books, Denys Cowan has numerous credits to his name, including Black Racer, Deathstroke, Black Lightning & Hong Kong Phooey, Batman: Lovers & Madmen, Blind Justice, Black Panther: Flags of Our Fathers, The Question, Hardware, and Static. Static became one of the most beloved characters in the Milestone Universe, spawning a hugely successful animated series, Static Shock. Denys directed and produced the series, which was nominated for an Emmy. As senior vice president of animation at BET, Cowan was responsible for the creation, development, and production of animated programming, which included the development and production of the Black Panther animated series. Serving as senior vice president of Motown Animation and Filmworks, he created and developed a number of shows with Fox, ABC, Disney and Nickelodeon. More recently, Denys illustrated the Django Unchained graphic novel, which was inspired by the Oscar-winning film by Quentin Tarantino.
Mitch Gerads
Mitch Gerads is a comics artist who has made a career out of bringing humanity and realism to the superhuman and unreal. Best known for his much-lauded work at DC Comics with writer Tom King on Mister Miracle, Batman, Strange Adventures, and The Sheriff of Babylon, he lives and draws in Phoenix, Arizona, with his Catwoman, Lauren, and his Robin, West.
Derek Kirk Kim
Derek Kirk Kim is an award-winning writer, artist, and director. He is the creator of The Last Mermaid from Image Comics and the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Award–winning graphic novel Same Difference and Other Stories. He garnered his second Eisner Award with The Eternal Smile, a collaboration with Gene Luen Yang. In television, Kim has worked as a director, storyboard artist, and character designer for numerous shows, including Amphibia, Adventure Time, and Green Eggs and Ham on Netflix. He eats chips with chopsticks.
Nicholas Meyer
Nicholas Meyer’s Sherlock Holmes novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution was a New York Times bestseller for 40 weeks and won the British Gold Dagger award for crime fiction. His screenplay for the film was nominated for an Academy Award. Six other Sherlock Holmes novels followed. Meyer made his directing debut from his own screenplay, Time After Time (1979). He wrote and/or directed Star Treks II, IV, and VI and directed The Day After (1983), the most-watched movie ever made for television, with 100 million viewers in a single night. His memoir, The View from the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood, was published by Viking in 2009. His miniseries Houdini (2014) was based on the Houdini biography written by his father, Bernard C. Meyer. His seventh Holmes novel, Sherlock Holmes and The Real Thing, will be published this summer by the Mysterious Press.
Neville Page
Neville Page is an Emmy Award–winning designer, concept artist, and educator whose work has shaped some of Hollywood’s most iconic films, including Avatar, Star Trek, Tron: Legacy, and Cloverfield. Originally from England, he studied at the Art Center College of Design before forging a career that blends artistry with evolutionary biology. A former judge on Face Off, his expertise extends to education, inspiring the next generation at Gnomon and ArtCenter. His exhibitions, including The Beauty in the Beast, highlight his passion for creature design. With innovation at his core, Page continues to push the boundaries of film, design, and storytelling.