More Comic-Con 2025 Guests Announced

Kia Asamiya

Kia Asamiya is a veteran Japanese manga artist and designer who is best known for Silent Möbius. He debuted in 1986 and expanded his reach internationally in 1999, working on titles such as Batman, X-Men, and Star Wars with DC and Marvel. His dynamic art spans manga, anime storyboards, and illustration. In 2024 he received the prestigious Japanese Nebula Award for his contributions to science fiction. 2025 marks his return to Comic-Con after 25 years, as he continues to captivate audiences worldwide with his fusion of visual storytelling and sci-fi imagination.

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Dan Jurgens

Dan Jurgens began his career in comics over 40 years ago as artist on The Warlord for DC Comics and quickly established himself as a writer as well. While he is best known for creating Booster Gold and writing and drawing the record-setting Death of Superman, he has written and/or drawn a wide variety of titles, including Justice League America, Green Arrow, Zero Hour, The Sensational Spider-Man, Thor, Captain America, DC vs. Marvel, Tomb Raider, Action Comics, and Batman Beyond, along with numerous  Superman projects. His most recent works include Superman: Hero for All, Superman: The World, and The Bat-Man: First Knight.

Jim Krueger

Jim Krueger is the former creative director of Marvel Comics and a New York Times bestselling author, best known for his work on such iconic comic book titles as Earth X, Justice, Avengers, Foot Soldiers, and Star Wars. Jim’s ideas about world-building have been a major influence in shaping popular culture through comics, TV, and film. His groundbreaking Earth X trilogy became the basis for much of the Marvel Universe continuity, influencing movies and TV shows such as Black Panther, Eternals, Moon Knight, Fantastic Four, Captain Marvel, and Loki.In addition to his work in comics, Jim has written for film, television, and video games, contributing to projects such as the Spider-Man 2 video game, Dracula, Mortal KCombat and the animated series Justice League.

Janice Shapiro

Janice Shapiro is the author of Bummer and Other Stories (Soft Skull Press, 2010). Her stories and comics have been published in The Rumpus, Catapult, The North American Review, Electric Literature, The Santa Monica Review, and Everyday Genius, among other periodicals and journals. Her graphic essay “Good Grief” was included in The Peanuts Papers (Library of America, 2019); another graphic essay, “Crushable-Neil Young,” appeared in Crush: Writers Reflect on Life, Longing and the Power of Their First Celebrity Crush (HarperCollins, 2016). Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship (Fantagraphics 2025) is her debut graphic novel. Janice lives in Berkeley, California with her husband and dog.

William Stout

Artist William Stout has worked with Russ Manning, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Jean “Moebius” Giraud, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, and Al Williamson. His studiomates included Dave Stevens and Paul Chadwick. Bill co-founded the Comic Art Professional Society and was their tenth president. He created the iconic Wizards movie poster, then worked on over 70 movies, including Return of the Living Dead and Masters of the Universe. He helped Pan’s Labyrinth win two Oscars. Michael Crichton claimed Stout’s dinosaur reconstructions inspired Jurassic Park. Bill’s 50-year career overview, Fantastic Worlds: The Art of William Stout (2018) precedes a Flesk Publications box set collecting Stout’s comics-related work. Upcoming is a volume on his work in underground comix, to be published by Last Gasp.