{"id":4342,"date":"2025-05-21T09:59:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/toucan\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:58:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T02:58:26","slug":"announcing-the-fourth-wave-of-comic-con-2025-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/toucan\/announcing-the-fourth-wave-of-comic-con-2025-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Fourth 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\"><span class=\"has-wide-text\">Comic-COn 2025<\/span><\/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 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 15 names announced previously, Comic-Con is pleased to welcome ChrisCross, Jae Lee, Paul Levitz, Stephanie Phillips, and Steven T. Seagle 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=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/ToucanComicBlogImage.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Comic-Con Toucan blog image.\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/ToucanComicBlogImage.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/ToucanComicBlogImage-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/ToucanComicBlogImage-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/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=\"670\" height=\"816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/ChrisCross.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4343 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/ChrisCross.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/ChrisCross-246x300.jpg 246w\" 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-2c1dffa0ebd6b1f0a756be38c6c0eb02\">ChrisCross<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>ChrisCross has worked in comics for 35 years. His introduction to professional comics was working with Milestone Media, where he worked on both iterations of <em>Blood Syndicate<\/em> and a stint on a book called <em>Heroes<\/em>. He then worked for DC comics and Marvel on such books as <em>Xero<\/em> (which was picked up for film<em>), Captain Marvel, Green Lantern Corps, JLA, M-man, Supergirl, Green Lantern<\/em> (John Stewart), <em>Batman &amp; Superman,<\/em> and <em>Superboy,<\/em> among others. He also did work with the SpiderVerse (where he introduced a new character named Headline) and on the Star Wars character Mace Windu, as well as Marvel\u2019s <em>Weapon X-Men<\/em>. He is currently in the middle of a creator-owned project with writer Joseph Illidge called <em>The Winterfields<\/em>, to be published by FairSquare Comics.<\/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=\"677\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Lee-Jae.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4344 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Lee-Jae.jpg 677w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Lee-Jae-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Lee-Jae-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Lee-Jae-376x376.jpg 376w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Lee-Jae-650x650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Lee-Jae-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Lee-Jae-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/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-660276bffaa5321917343615310ab65c\">Jae Lee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Jae Lee is a Korean American comic book artist known for his dark style. In 1990 he became one of the youngest artists ever to work for a major publisher. He is an Eisner Award winner for his work on Marvel&#8217;s <em>The Inhumans<\/em>. His art can also be seen in Stephen King&#8217;s <em>Dark Tower<\/em> and <em>Batman\/Superman.<\/em> Jae is also the co-creator of The Sentry for Marvel Comics.<\/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=\"865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Levitz.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4345 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Levitz.jpg 739w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Levitz-256x300.jpg 256w\" 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-3015fb7dfab1993811ce0033bb309817\">Paul Levitz<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul Levitz has been a comic fan (<em>The Comic Reader),<\/em> editor (<em>Batman<\/em>),<em> <\/em>writer (<em>Legion of Super-Heroes<\/em>)<em>,<\/em> executive (decades at DC Comics, ending as President &amp; Publisher), historian (<em>Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel<\/em>) and now teaches subjects related to comics and transmedia at Pace University and Columbia University. His <em>75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking<\/em> won an Eisner Award and international awards, and he has been inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Hall of Fame. A new edition of his acclaimed collaboration with Keith Giffen, <em>Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga,<\/em> is being published by DC in August.<\/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=\"519\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4346 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Phillips.jpg 519w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Phillips-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Phillips-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Phillips-376x376.jpg 376w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Phillips-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/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-95d81af051023164e1bd3c62a7ddf459\">Stephanie Phillips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephanie Phillips is a comic book writer known for her work on such titles as <em>Spider-Gwen<\/em>, <em>Harley Quinn<\/em>, <em>Phoenix<\/em>, <em>Wonder Woman<\/em>, and <em>GRIM<\/em>. 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Stephanie also holds a Ph.D. in rhetoric and composition and is a founding creator of DSTLRY, a new publishing venture focused on creator-owned comics.<\/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=\"688\" height=\"759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Seagle.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4347 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Seagle.jpg 688w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Seagle-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/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-89ad2ba893fc83fdb9d4b0a434748f95\">Steven T. 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