{"id":3169,"date":"2024-05-29T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/toucan\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2024-08-15T12:25:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T19:25:59","slug":"announcing-the-fourth-wave-of-comic-con-2024-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/toucan\/announcing-the-fourth-wave-of-comic-con-2024-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Fourth Wave of Comic-Con 2024 Guests!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull cc-post-subheader is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--default);padding-right:0;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--default);padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-ac92f820 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--default);padding-right:0;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--default);padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center cc-post-subheader__content has-global-padding is-content-justification-right is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-column-is-layout-cd9a8c13 wp-block-column-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--default);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--default);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">\n<p class=\"cc-post-subheader__overline is-style-overline has-brand-secondary-color has-text-color\" style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading cc-post-subheader__title\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--default);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--default);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--default)\">Announcing the Fourth Wave of Comic-Con 2024 Guests!<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"cc-post-subheader__description\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--default);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--default);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--default)\">In addition to the 18 names announced previously, Comic-Con is pleased to welcome Bill Amend, Lea Seidman Hernandez, Joe Jusko, Tom Sito, Ken Steacy, and Zoe Thorogood as Special Guests for 2024!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center cc-post-subheader__image-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><figure class=\"cc-post-subheader__featured-image wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1132\" height=\"1116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-26-2.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-26-2.png 1132w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-26-2-300x296.png 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-26-2-1024x1010.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-26-2-768x757.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1132px) 100vw, 1132px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"841\" height=\"841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Amend.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Amend image\" class=\"wp-image-3181 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Amend.jpg 841w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Amend-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Amend-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Amend-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Amend-376x376.jpg 376w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Amend-650x650.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-medium has-brand-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-02440f681f8d4be5a24f2c9dc213c24b\">Bill Amend<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Amend is the creator of the <em>FoxTrot<\/em> comic strip, syndicated since 1988 by Andrews McMeel Universal. <em>FoxTrot<\/em>&#8216;s numerous book collections have combined sales of more than 3.5 million copies. Amend received the 2006 Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and the Inkpot Award for Comic Arts from Comic-Con in 2012. He has a BA in physics from Amherst College and currently lives in the Midwest.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Hernandez-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3188 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Hernandez-1.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Hernandez-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Hernandez-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Hernandez-1-376x376.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-medium has-brand-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ace664d5d6c431410604b867cc685bec\">Lea Seidman Hernandez<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Known for her unabashedly feminine art and writing, Lea has a career of firsts: first woman with an original graphic novel at Image (<em>Cathedral Child,<\/em> 1998; <em>Clockwork Angels,<\/em> 1999), first creator to take a comic from print to web (<em>Rumble Girls,<\/em> 2002), and one of the first U.S. comickers publishing in a manga-influenced style, As editor of the website Girlamatic, Lea presented then-new comics creators like Raina Telgemeier (<em>Smile<\/em>). Lea gives entertaining drawing demos at conventions and schools, using skills honed as an artist\/writer for DC&#8217;s <em>Teen Titans Go!<\/em> She is launching a line of prints and enamel pins at Comic-Con.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Jusko-1.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Jusko smiling\" class=\"wp-image-3183 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Jusko-1.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Jusko-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Jusko-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Jusko-1-376x376.jpg 376w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Jusko-1-650x650.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-medium has-brand-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-73c81a0a526f50a8061ae4dd35375893\">Joe Jusko<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Jusko\u2019s career as a fantasy, pin-up, and comics artist has spanned over 45 years, starting with the sale of his very first cover for <em>Heavy Metal<\/em> magazine in 1977. Joe has worked for almost every major comic book publisher, producing hundreds of images for both covers and interiors. His work has appeared on paperback book covers, calendars, posters, T-shirts, toy packaging, and innumerable trading cards, most memorably the multi-award-winning 1992 Marvel Masterpieces Trading Cards. His hardcover <em>Art of Joe Jusko<\/em> book was released by Desperado Publishing in 2009. Joe is currently painting new covers for The Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library, a lifelong goal and an endeavor that will make him the first artist to cover every book written by the legendary author.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Sito-by-EdWexler-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cartoon of Tom Sito by Ed Wexler\" class=\"wp-image-3184 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Sito-by-EdWexler-1.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Sito-by-EdWexler-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Sito-by-EdWexler-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Sito-by-EdWexler-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Sito-by-EdWexler-1-376x376.jpg 376w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Sito-by-EdWexler-1-650x650.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-medium has-brand-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1e4fd1f9057413d16c84ad2556f916fe\">Tom Sito<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tom Sito<\/strong> is an animator and animation historian. He teaches animation at the University of Southern California. He has lectured on animation around the world and served as president of The Animation Guild Local 839 Hollywood. His movie credits include Walt Disney\u2019s <em>Beauty and the Beast<\/em>, <em>The Lion King, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid<\/em>, and <em>Aladdin <\/em>(1992); Dreamworks\u2019 <em>Shrek<\/em> and <em>The Prince of Egypt<\/em>; and Warner Bros.\u2019 <em>Osmosis Jones. <\/em>His TV credits include <em>He-Man and the Masters of the Universe<\/em>, <em>She-Ra Princess of Power,<\/em> and <em>The Superfriends<\/em>. His books include <em>Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson<\/em>; <em>Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation<\/em>; and <em>Eat, Drink, Animate, An Animator\u2019s Cookbook<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Art by Ed Wexler<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"739\" height=\"739\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Steacy-1.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Steacy wearing a headset\" class=\"wp-image-3185 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Steacy-1.jpg 739w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Steacy-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Steacy-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Steacy-1-376x376.jpg 376w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Steacy-1-650x650.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-medium has-brand-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-54b3831a69e4c7eeed0a6b4846a76e6d\">Ken Steacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken&#8217;s visual storytelling career spans a half century, as a writer, artist, art director, editor, and publisher. He has chronicled the exploits of Astro Boy, Iron Man, Harry Potter, and the Star Wars gang; and, in addition to producing his own IP, he has collaborated with Margaret Atwood, Harlan Ellison, and Trina Robbins. The recipient of an Eisner Award and an Inkpot Award, in 2009 Ken was inducted into the Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Hall of Fame, a lifetime achievement award for contributions to the industry. He\u2019s currently working on a graphic novel that explores the invisible subculture of military brats.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Thorogood-1.jpg\" alt=\"Zoe Thorogood about to eat\" class=\"wp-image-3186 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Thorogood-1.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Thorogood-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Thorogood-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Thorogood-1-376x376.jpg 376w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/Thorogood-1-650x650.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-medium has-brand-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6e78ee1f18e5d35bc1764bdfd4cf25a2\">Zoe Thorogood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Zoe Thorogood is the creator of the Eisner Award\u2013nominated <em>It\u2019s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth <\/em>and<em> The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott<\/em>. She also illustrated Joe Hill\u2019s <em>Rain,<\/em> for which she earned an Eisner Award nomination. Her latest projects are <em>Hack\/Slash: Back to School <\/em>and<em> Life Is Strange: Forget-Me-Not.<\/em> She is currently working on a new graphic novel titled <em>I Think I Might Be Evil<\/em>. Zoe received Comic-Con\u2019s Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing the Fourth Wave of Comic-Con 2024 Guests! In addition to the 18 names announced previously, Comic-Con is pleased to welcome Bill Amend, Lea Seidman Hernandez, Joe Jusko, Tom Sito, Ken Steacy, and Zoe Thorogood as Special Guests for 2024! 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