WonderCon
Second Wave of WonderCon Guests Announced
WonderCon 2025 is delighted to welcome Yaya Han, Sean Murphy, Brian Posehn, and Dan Veesenmeyer as Special Guests!
Yaya Han
Yaya Han is a cosplayer, designer, and author with more than 20 years of activity in the fandom world. Yaya has made over 400 costumes and has been featured in two U.S. network TV shows, countless magazines, books, newspapers, and online media. Yaya’s work has impacted cosplay profoundly and has helped shape it into a commercial industry. She is the first cosplayer to bring branded cosplay-focused sewing/crafting products to mass retail, and she chronicled the evolution of modern cosplay in the book Yaya Han’s World of Cosplay.
Sean Murphy
Sean Murphy is a comic book creator known for work on such books as Joe the Barbarian with Grant Morrison, Chrononauts with Mark Millar, American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest and The Wake with Scott Snyder, Tokyo Ghost with Rick Remender, and the miniseries Punk Rock Jesus. In 2024 he successfully licensed Zorro to create a new book titled Zorro: Man of the Dead, which became a big success on Kickstarter as well in stores. He is also the creator of the Murphyverse, a subcontinuity that serves as the setting for stories featuring Batman that is separate from the main DC Universe continuity. These titles include Batman: White Knight and its sequels, Curse of the White Knight and Beyond the White Knight, which Murphy wrote and illustrated. He’s planning more expansions for his Batman titles in the next few years, one which will feature Batman teaming up with Superman, as well as other JLA members.
Brian Posehn
Brian Posehn is a writer/actor/stand-up comic. His credits include Disney+’s The Mandalorian, Netflix’s Lady Dynamite, and FX’s You’re the Worst, along with recurring roles on The Big Bang Theory and New Girl. He was one of the stars of Comedy Central’s The Sarah Silverman Program. He also appeared on such seminal sitcoms as Seinfeld, NewsRadio, Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, The Neighborhood, and Just Shoot Me. His voice-acting gigs have included everything from Scooby Doo and The Simpsons to Adventure Time, American Dad, Bob’s Burgers, and Steven Universe. He also produced and hosted the popular D&D comedy podcast Nerd Poker and co-wrote 45 issues of the bestselling Marvel comic book series Deadpool. In 2018 he released his first book, Forever Nerdy.
Dan Veesenmeyer
Dan is an artist with over 30 years of experience working in the worlds of animation, toys, comics, and video games, perhaps most noted for his work with X-Men The Animated Series and X-Men ’97. Starting out as a TV animation storyboard artist on X-Men The Animated Series, he continued to work on many shows throughout the 1990s. Transitioning to licensing, he’s worked with several studios and brands including Star Wars Prequels, Batman Animated, and Lego Marvel and DC video games. Currently he is associated with X-Men–related projects for Marvel, Mondo, and Hasbro, producing artwork for toys and apparel.