Comic-Con 2025
Announcing the Third Wave of Comic-Con 2025 Guests!
In addition to the 10 names announced previously, Comic-Con is pleased to welcome Terry Kavanagh, Chip Kidd, Greg Evans, Karen Evans, and Erica Schultz as Special Guests for 2025!
Greg Evans
Inspired by his family and the antics of his young daughter, Greg Evans created the nationally syndicated comic strip Luann in 1985. He received the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in 2003. In 2015, his daughter Karen joined him as co-writer, making his dream job even better! Now celebrating 40 years, Luann entertains fans worldwide in newspapers and online with humor, drama, and a beloved cast of characters.
Karen Evans
Daughter of cartoonist Greg Evans, Karen Evans never imagined his nationally syndicated comic strip Luann would become part of her adult life. After a career in education, she’s now delighted to work alongside her dad, co-writing stories for the characters she grew up with. Karen is proud to celebrate Luann’s 40th anniversary and to serve as Board President of the National Cartoonists Society, supporting a community of over 500 professional cartoonists.
Terry Kavanagh
Terry Kavanagh was a Marvel Comics editor from 1985 to 1997, overseeing Marvel Comics Presents (including the original Weapon X storyline), Namor, Speedball, and other titles. He also wrote Moon Knight, Avengers, Iron Man, Web of Spider-Man, X-Man, and more through the mid-2000s. He was one of the writers on the Maximum Carnage story arc, and he pitched a storyline involving the return of Spider-Man’s clone, which then formed the basis of the long-running Spider-Man maxi-series The Clone Saga. Terry is now executive editor for 247 Comics, as well as being head of development for inksmyth, producing custom comics as high-end gifts.
Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd is the three-time Eisner Award–winning author and designer of Batman Collected, Batman: Animated, and Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz. As an editor of graphic novels for Pantheon Books for the last 25 years, he has worked with the best in the industry, inclluding Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Charles Burns, David Mazzucchelli, Frank Miller, Alex Ross, Gengoroh Tagame, and Michael Cho. He is the author of the graphic novels Batman: Death by Design (DC Comics) and the forthcoming The Avengers in the Veracity Trap (Abrams ComicArts/Marvel) with artist Michael Cho.
Erica Schultz
Erica Schultz is a Ringo Award–nominated comic book writer. She started her career as an animator for the Astonishing X-Men motion comic “Gifted” with Continuity Studios. While there, she lettered, provided ink and color assists, and worked on backgrounds for multiple projects, including Batman: Odyssey, The First X-Men, The New Avengers #16.1, and others. Erica is a graduate of the DC Comics Talent Development Workshop pilot program with Scott Snyder, and she has gone on to write for several series for Marvel and Image, including Spawn: Rat City. She was previously the writing instructor at The Joe Kubert School.