{"id":4409,"date":"2025-06-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/toucan\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T02:57:01","slug":"announcing-the-final-group-of-special-guests-for-comic-con-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/toucan\/announcing-the-final-group-of-special-guests-for-comic-con-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Final Group of Special Guests for Comic-Con 2025"},"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\">Comic-Con 2025<\/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 Final Group of Special Guests for Comic-Con 2025<\/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)\">Comic-Con welcomes Bilquis Evely, Jonathan Hickman, Jim Lee, Scott Shaw! 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Jim joined DC in 1998 and has overseen many of the company\u2019s highly successful publishing programs, including the Rebirth line of comics and The New 52 initiative that relaunched the entire line of monthly superhero comic books. As part of the revamp, Lee designed and reimagined the new, more contemporary costumes for some of the DC Universe&#8217;s most iconic characters, including Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. Jim holds a BA in psychology from Princeton University and started his professional career at Marvel Comics, where his work on the X-Men continues to hold the all-time sales record for single-issue sales.<\/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=\"594\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Shaw.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4413 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Shaw.jpeg 594w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Shaw-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Shaw-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Shaw-376x376.jpeg 376w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Shaw-400x400.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/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-2d518bef40ee824043407903e69a8472\">Scott Shaw!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For over 50 years, Scott Shaw! has worked on underground comix, mainstream comics, children\u2019s books, syndicated strips, graphic novels, TV cartoons, toys, trading cards, advertising, T-shirts, and music album art. Scott&#8217;s recent books include <em>Kilgore Home Nursing<\/em>, <em>Scott Shaw!\u2019s Comix &amp; Stories,<\/em> and <em>Dinosaurs Unleashed. <\/em>His current projects include <em>Li&#8217;l Dragon<\/em> for Image, \u201cPackratt and the Scroungers\u201d for the tabloid <em>A Kid and a Comic,<\/em> his regular column for TwoMorrows\u2019 <em>Retrofan <\/em>magazine, and his \u201cOddball Comics\u201d online column for 13<sup>th<\/sup> Dimension, as well as his longtime project, an <em>Oddball Comics<\/em> book for TwoMorrows.<\/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=\"655\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Sorensen-by-Nipp.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4414 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Sorensen-by-Nipp.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Sorensen-by-Nipp-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Sorensen-by-Nipp-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Sorensen-by-Nipp-376x376.jpg 376w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Sorensen-by-Nipp-650x650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Sorensen-by-Nipp-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/Sorensen-by-Nipp-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by: Lisa Nipp\/National Press Foundation<\/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-8ce7030d752d51c03b86379ac34ed757\"><strong>Jen Sorensen<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Jen Sorensen&#8217;s weekly comic strip appears in alternative newspapers throughout the United States, in <em>The Nation <\/em>and<em> In These Times<\/em>, and in such online publications as Daily Kos, GoComics, and formerly The Nib. 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