San Diego Comic-Con 2025 Special Guests [UPDATE June 18]

Comic-Con International has begun unveiling this year’s list of Special Guests, the invited guests who appear at San Diego Comic-Con and are featured in a special “Spotlight” panel during the convention, so attendees have a chance to hear their favorite authors and artists speak live.

From their site, here’s the list of the Special Guests headed to SDCC 2025:

[NEW] Bilquis Evely • Comic book artist, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, Wonder Woman, The Dreaming, Doc Savage, and Helen of Wyndhorn
[NEW] Jonathan Hickman • Writer and creator, Secret Wars, House of X, East of West, Fantastic Four, and The Black Monday Murders
[NEW] Jim Lee • Artist and DC President, X-Men, Batman: Hush, Justice League, The New 52, and Rebirth
[NEW] Scott Shaw! • Cartoonist and writer, Kilgore Home Nursing, Scott Shaw!’s Comix & Stories, Dinosaurs Unleashed, Li’l Dragon, and Oddball Comics
[NEW] Jen Sorensen • Editorial cartoonist, The Nation, In These Times, Daily Kos, The Nib, and GoComics
Mark Evanier •Writer and historian, Groo the Wanderer, Garfield, Kirby: King of Comics, The New Scooby-Doo Movies, and Blackhawk
Marcos Martín • Comic book artist, Daredevil, Batgirl: Year One, The Private Eye, Amazing Spider-Man, and Friday
Frank Miller • Legendary creator, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City, 300, Ronin, and Daredevil
Scott Sigler • Author and podcaster, Galactic Football League, Infected, Earthcore, The Rookie, and Scott Sigler Slices
Maggie Thompson • Comics historian and editor, Comics Buyer’s Guide, Comic Art, Newfangles, and Pogo indexing for Fantagraphics
Kia Asamiya • Manga artist and designer, Silent Möbius, Batman, X-Men, and Star Wars
Dan Jurgens • Writer/artist, The Death of Superman, Justice League America, Green Arrow, Zero Hour, The Sensational Spider-Man, Thor, Captain America, DC vs. Marvel, Tomb Raider, Action Comics, and Batman Beyond
Jim Krueger • Former creative director of Marvel Comics and a New York Times bestselling author, Earth X, Justice, Avengers, Foot Soldiers, and Star Wars
Janice Shapiro • Author, Bummer and Other Stories
William Stout • Artist, cofounder of the Comic Art Professional Society
Michael Cho • Arist, writer, Shoplifter, Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes, Avengers: The Veracity Trap, cover artist for Marvel & DC, Star Wars, Fortnite, Disney
Max Allan Collins • Writer, Road to Perdition, Nathan Heller, Mike Hammer, Dick Tracy, Batman, Ms. Tree, Wild Dog, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master
Nick Dragotta • Artist, writer, East of West, Fantastic Four, Ghost Cage, Absolute Batman
Liniers • Writer, Macanudo, Good Night, Planet, Night Stories, The Ghost of Wreckers Cove
Bianca Xunise • Cartoonist, writer, Six Chix, Punk Rock Karaoke, NAACP Image Award winner
ChrisCross • Arist, Blood Syndicate, Captain Marvel, Supergirl, Green Lantern (John Stewart), Spider-Verse, Mace Windu, Weapon X-Men, The Winterfields
Jae Lee • Arist, Inhumans, Batman/Superman, The Dark Tower, The Sentry, Eisner Award winner
Paul Levitz • Writer, editor, executive, Legion of Super-Heroes, Batman, 75 Years of DC Comics, Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel, former DC President & Publisher, Eisner Hall of Fame
Stephanie Phillips • Writer, Spider-Gwen, Harley Quinn, Wonder Woman, Phoenix, GRIM, co-founder of DSTLRY
Steven T. Seagle • Writer, producer, X-Men, It’s A Bird…, Sandman Mystery Theater, co-creator of Ben 10 and Big Hero 6, Man of Action Studios, nine-time Eisner nominee
Terry Kavanagh • Editor, writer Moon Knight, Avengers, Iron Man, Web of Spider-Man, X-Man
Chip Kidd • Author, designer Batman Collected, Batman: Animated, Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz, Batman: Death by Design, The Avengers in the Veracity Trap
Greg Evans • Cartoonist, Luann
Karen Evans • Cartoonist, Luann
Erica Schultz • Writer, Animator, Astonishing X-Men, Spawn: Rat City
Julio Anta • Author, Frontera, This Land Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story, Speak Up Santiago, Home, Si, and Se Puede
Alison Bechdel • Eisner Award-winning cartoonist, Dykes to Watch Out For, Fun Home, and Spent: A Comic Novel
Eddie Campbell • Comic book artist/author, From Hell, Bacchus; Alec: The Years Have Pants, and The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell.
Todd Klein • Eisner Award-winning comic letterer, logo designer, DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, and Disney
Jonathan Maberry • New York Times best-selling author, V-Wars, Rot & Ruin; editor of Weird Tales Magazine
J.M. DeMatteis • Eisner Award-winning author, The Excavator and The Witness; Amazon Prime’s animated Batman: Caped Crusader; and the DeMultiverse line of comics: Godsend, Anyman, Wisdom, and Layla in the Lands of After
Emil Ferris • Eisner Award-winning author, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters series
Daniel Warren Johnson • Comic book writer, artist, and illustrator, Beta Ray Bill, The Ghost Fleet, Murder Falcon, Space-Mullet, Wonder Woman: Dead Earth, The Moon Is Following Us, the Eisner Award–nominated Extremity, and the Eisner Award–winning Do a Powerbomb and Transformers
J.G. Jones • Comic book illustrator/author, Black Widow, Marvel Boy, Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia, WANTED, 52, Final Crisis, and, most recently, Dust to Dust
Paul Karasik • Cartoonist and teacher, Graphic novel adaptation of Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy (with David Mazzuchelli and Lorenzo Mattotti), How To Read Nancy (with Mark Newgarden), The Complete Fletcher Hanks, and The Ride Together, a Memoir of Autism in the Family (with Judy Karasik)