Comic-Con 2025
Announcing the Final Group of Special Guests for Comic-Con 2025
Comic-Con welcomes Bilquis Evely, Jonathan Hickman, Jim Lee, Scott Shaw! and Jen Sorensen as Special Guests, joining the previously announced 35 creators.
Bilquis Evely
Bilquis Evely, originally from São Paulo, began her career with the Brazilian comic Luluzinha Teen e Sua Turma. She then ventured into the American market, contributing to Dynamite’s Doc Savage and Shaft. In 2015 she started working with DC Comics, illustrating such titles as Sugar & Spike, Wonder Woman, and The Dreaming. In 2020 she collaborated with Tom King and Matheus Lopes on the acclaimed miniseries Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. Following that, the same creative team developed the limited series Helen of Wyndhorn. Evely’s work has earned her a Rudolph Dirks Award and multiple Eisner Award nominations across several categories.
Jonathan Hickman
Jonathan Hickman is a bestselling and award-winning writer best known for his work at Marvel (Secret Wars, Fantastic Four, Avengers, House of X) and Image Comics (East of West, Manhattan Projects, Decorum, Black Monday Murders). He resides in the southeast United States, where he also runs an agricultural co-op and is a board member of the Burnley-Smith Foundation.
Jim Lee
Jim Lee, the world-renowned comic book artist, writer, editor, and publisher, is currently president, publisher, and chief creative officer of DC. 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.
Scott Shaw!
For over 50 years, Scott Shaw! has worked on underground comix, mainstream comics, children’s books, syndicated strips, graphic novels, TV cartoons, toys, trading cards, advertising, T-shirts, and music album art. Scott’s recent books include Kilgore Home Nursing, Scott Shaw!’s Comix & Stories, and Dinosaurs Unleashed. His current projects include Li’l Dragon for Image, “Packratt and the Scroungers” for the tabloid A Kid and a Comic, his regular column for TwoMorrows’ Retrofan magazine, and his “Oddball Comics” online column for 13th Dimension, as well as his longtime project, an Oddball Comics book for TwoMorrows.
Jen Sorensen
Jen Sorensen’s weekly comic strip appears in alternative newspapers throughout the United States, in The Nation and In These Times, and in such online publications as Daily Kos, GoComics, and formerly The Nib. Sorensen has also created commissioned comics for NPR, the ACLU, Nickelodeon Magazine, and MAD. She was a graphic journalism editor for Univision. In 2023, Jen received the Berryman Award from the National Press Foundation. She has been named a Pulitzer finalist and is the recipient of the Herblock Prize and Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.