{"id":4313,"date":"2025-05-07T09:57:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/toucan\/?p=4313"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:58:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T02:58:27","slug":"announcing-the-second-wave-of-comic-con-2025-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/toucan\/announcing-the-second-wave-of-comic-con-2025-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Second Wave of Comic-Con 2025 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 Second Wave of Comic-Con 2025 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 five names announced previously, Comic-Con is pleased to welcome Julio Anta, Alison Bechdel, Eddie Campbell, Todd Klein, and Jonathan Maberry as Special Guests for 2025!<\/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=\"675\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design.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\/Untitled-design.png 675w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-376x376.png 376w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/Untitled-design-650x650.png 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/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=\"647\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Anta.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4314 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Anta.jpg 647w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Anta-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Anta-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Anta-376x376.jpg 376w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Anta-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Anta-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/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-a9931f31ec334edff8c27aa00d6a8212\">Julio Anta<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Julio Anta is the author of many graphic novels, including the Eisner Award\u2013nominated <em>Frontera<\/em>, <em>This Land Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story<\/em>, <em>Speak Up Santiago<\/em>, <em>Home<\/em>, and <em>Si, Se Puede<\/em>. He is the recipient of the Children&#8217;s Book Council&#8217;s Young Adults&#8217; Favorites Award and a New York State Council on the Arts grant. His work has been published by DC, Marvel, Image, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and more. Julio was born and raised in Miami, Florida and currently resides in New York City, where he works to tell narratively rich stories for audiences of all ages.<\/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 is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Bechdel-by-Elena-Seibert.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4315 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Bechdel-by-Elena-Seibert.jpg 474w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Bechdel-by-Elena-Seibert-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Bechdel-by-Elena-Seibert-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Bechdel-by-Elena-Seibert-376x376.jpg 376w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Bechdel-by-Elena-Seibert-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by: Elena Seibert<\/figcaption><\/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-240d25255afc98d2be0d035371d38a9a\"><strong>Alison Bechdel<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Alison Bechdel\u2019s work includes the pioneering comic strip <em>Dykes to Watch Out For<\/em> (1983\u20132008), and the graphic memoirs <em>Fun Home<\/em>, <em>Are You My Mother?<\/em> and <em>The Secret to Superhuman Strength<\/em>. <em>Fun Home<\/em> was adapted into a musical in 2015 that received five Tony Awards. In her work, Bechdel is preoccupied with the overlap of the political and the personal spheres. She is the recipient of Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, as well as an Eisner Award. She was inducted into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame in 2020. Her newest book, <em>Spent: A Comic Novel<\/em>, is hot off the press.<\/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 is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Campbell.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4316 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Campbell.jpg 668w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Campbell-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Campbell-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Campbell-376x376.jpg 376w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Campbell-650x650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Campbell-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Campbell-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/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-8a6597777e855c673df2dfa2293d0982\">Eddie Campbell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Eddie Campbell is best known as the artist of <em>From Hell,<\/em> written by Alan Moore. He also writes his own stuff, including the two volumes of <em>Bacchus; Alec: The Years Have Pants<\/em>, which collects 30 years of his autobiographical comics; and the latest in that line, <em>The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell.<\/em> Lately he has been dabbling in writing about the history of cartooning, as in <em>The Goat Getters<\/em> and <em>Kate Carew: America&#8217;s First Great Woman Cartoonist<\/em>. Eddie has been living in Chicago since 2016.<\/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=\"550\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Klein.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4317 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Klein.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Klein-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Klein-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/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-acc36840f631be063238e4314de12f0b\">Todd Klein<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Todd Klein\u2019s comics career began in 1977 when he was hired to work in the DC Comics production department. During ten years on staff there, he tried many kinds of freelance work, including writing, inking, and coloring, but lettering suited him best, and he developed a freelance career as a letterer and logo designer. After leaving staff in 1987, Todd continued to work mainly for DC, but also for Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, and Disney, among others. He has lettered over 75,000 comics pages and covers and designed over 800 logos. He has won 16 Eisner Awards for Best Letterer.<\/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 is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Maberry.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4318 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Maberry.jpg 344w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Maberry-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Maberry-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/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-8f86bcb73ac6a1aecb648066a72f84d5\">Jonathan Maberry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Jonathan Maberry is a <em>New York Times <\/em>bestselling author of over 50 novels, a five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and a four-time Scribe Award winner. He writes comics (Marvel, IDW, Dark Horse, IPI) and is an executive producer and writing teacher. His <em>V-Wars<\/em> was a Netflix original series; <em>Rot &amp; Ruin<\/em> is in development for film with Alcon Entertainment; and his Joe Ledger thrillers are being developed for TV by Chad Stahelski (director, <em>John Wick<\/em>). He writes horror, sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, thrillers, and more. He\u2019s president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and the editor of <em>Weird Tales Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing the Second Wave of Comic-Con 2025 Guests! In addition to the five names announced previously, Comic-Con is pleased to welcome Julio Anta, Alison Bechdel, Eddie Campbell, Todd Klein, and Jonathan Maberry as Special Guests for 2025! 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