Special Guests

Dan Jurgens began his comics career over 35 years ago as an artist on DC Comics’ The Warlord. He then created, wrote and drew Booster Gold and added Legion of Super-Heroes, Flash Gordon, Green Arrow, and Justice League America to his resumé. Most notably, he logged a ten-year-plus run as writer/artist on Superman including the best-selling “Death of Superman” story arc for which he won the National Cartoonists Society Award. Jurgens followed up with the mega-hit crossover Zero Hour, which redefined the DC Universe.

More recently, he wrote the acclaimed Superman: Lois and Clark mini-series, which repositioned Superman in the DC universe and helped to set up the company’s Rebirth effort. He is currently writing Batman Beyond and Action Comics Starring Superman as it builds toward its iconic issue #1,000.

David Petersen was born in 1977 in Flint, Michigan and received a BFA from Eastern Michigan University in 2000. He is the creator of the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed graphic novel series Mouse Guard, which has been published in 17 languages.

David was the 2007 Russ Manning Award recipient for Promising Newcomer. He has since gone on to win three Eisner Awards and two Harveys for his continued work on the Mouse Guard series. In 2016 the Mouse Guard series was optioned by 20th Century Fox for feature film adaptation.

Matthew Rosenberg is a comic book writer from New York City. He is best known for his series 4 Kids Walk into a Bank, and We Can Never Go Home for Black Mask, The Archies for Archie, and The Punisher, Phoenix Resurrection, Rocket Raccoon, Tales of Suspense, Kingpin, and Secret Warriors for Marvel. He's pretty nice. You should go say hi if you see him.

Victoria “V.E.” Schwab is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including the acclaimed Shades of Magic series, This Savage Song, Our Dark Duet, and Vicious. Her work has received critical acclaim, has been featured in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Washington Post, and more, has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and has been optioned for television and film. When she’s not haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides, she lives in Nashville and is usually tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up monsters. Her new book, Vengeful, will be released in fall 2018.

A multiple award-winning, critically acclaimed writer of comics and animation, Gail Simone began writing as a columnist for comicbookresources.com before making the leap to writing comics with Deadpool and The Simpsons. She has since had fan favorite runs on such books as Batgirl, Wonder Woman, Tomb Raider, Secret Six, Birds of Prey, and the creator-owned Clean Room, Leaving Megalopolis, and Welcome to Tranquility. She is currently writing her first book for Image, Crosswind, and is returning to superheroes with several projects, including Wonder Woman/Conan from DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics. She remains a fierce advocate for diversity in comics.