Guests of Honor
Peter David
Guest of Honor, Eisner Award-winning writer of The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man 2099, Young Justice, X-Factor, Star Trek: New Frontier Series.
Gregory Benford
Science Fiction Guest of Honor, Into the Ocean of Night, Across the Sea of Suns, Great Sky River, Tides of Light, Furious Gulf and Sailing Bright Eternity.
Guests
Ben Templesmith
Eisner Award-Winning Artist of 30 Days of Night, Fell, Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse, Dead Space, Groom Lake, Welcome to Hoxford and Singularity 7.
Rob Salkowitz
Writer on pop culture for Forbes and ICv2, communications educator, and author of Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture
Chris Ryall
Publisher Syzygy Publishing, Writer and Editor of Locke & Key, ROM, Onyx, Groom Lake and Zombies vs. Robots.
Jonathan Maberry
NY Times Bestseller, 5-time Bram Stoker Award winner, creator of V-WARS, the Joe Ledger thrillers, the Rot & Ruin series, and the Dead of Night series
Greg Preston
Author of The Artist Within
Jim Krueger
Eisner Award-Winning Writer of Justice, The Earth X Trilogy and Project Superpowers
Willie Ito
Animator for Disney (starting with the spaghetti-kissing scene in Lady and the Tramp), Warner Bros. Cartoon’s (working with Chuck Jones and Fritz Freleng), Bob Clampett Cartoons (The Beany and Cecil Show), and Hanna-Barbera (The Jetsons, The Flintstones, and The Yogi Bear Show)
Michael Ravine
Michael Ravine is the Advanced Projects Manager at Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, CA. In that capacity, he managed the development of three cameras currently orbiting the Moon, three orbiting Mars, four on the surface of Mars, one orbiting Jupiter and three at the asteroid Bennu.
Juanele Tamal
Físico y autor de cómics (monero) / Physicist and cartoonist. He really like tamales!
Trina Robbins
Award-winning herstorian and writer Trina Robbins has been writing books, comics, and graphic novels for over forty years.
Dustin Nguyen
New York Times Bestselling and multiple Eisner Award winning comic creator, best known for his work on the creator owned series Descender and his various iterations of Batman for the past 20 years.
Dr. Jamie Molaro
Jamie Molaro is a Research Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and an Affiliate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She earned her BS in physics at San Francisco State University and her MS and PhD in planetary science at the University of Arizona.
Paul M. Sammon
Paul M. Sammon is an author, filmmaker, Hollywood insider and one of the most respected and knowledgeable writers on film working today.
Pete Von Sholly
Pete has written and illustrated three quasi-fumetti graphic novels: Morbid, Morbid Volume 2 and Extremely Weird Stories, (Dark Horse Comics) and three satiric magazines for TwoMorrows, Crazy Hip Groovy Go Go Way Out Monsters (2 issues) and Comic Book Nerd.
Mark Badger
I started in comics with The Gargoyle mini-series in the mid-eighties. Along with Greenberg the Vampire and Martian Manhunter, I bounced around Marvel and DC. My run on American Flagg is remembered fondly by a few.
Brian Haberlin
An award-winning comic book artist, writer, editor and producer, Brian began his career in comics working at Top Cow Productions, where he co-created the Witchblade franchise. He co-founded Avalon Studios, which published many successful fantasy and sci-fi titles, including: Stone, Aria and Area 52.
Mark Evanier
An American comic book and television writer, known for his work on the animated TV series Garfield and Friends and on the comic book Groo the Wanderer. He is also known for his columns and blog News from ME, and for his work as a historian and biographer of the comics industry, such as his award-winning Jack Kirby biography, Kirby: King of Comics.
Bruce Simon
A cartoonist, writer and archivist living in Berkeley, CA. Growing up in Los Angeles in the 60’s, Bruce emigrated to Berkeley in 1972 and joined the Underground Comix movement. Bruce has written numerous articles on comic and pop-culture related subjects for MINESHAFT Magazine.
Joe Phillips
Inkpot Award-winning artist of Mister Miracle, The Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, Fleer Ultra: X-Men and Marvel Masterpieces.
Scott Shaw!
Cartoonist and Animator of Sonic The Hedgehog, The Flintstones, Camp Candy, Captain Carrot, Muppet Babies and The World Famous Oddball Comics Show.
William Stout
Multi-talented artist and designer of Jurassic Park, Conan the Barbarian, Pan’s Labyrinth, Masters of the Universe and The Myst.
Michael Dooley
Comics and Animation History Professor at Pasadena's Art Center, author of hundreds of features about comics, and 2020 Comic-Con Eisner Awards judge.
Jackie Estrada
She runs the Eisner Awards, started Comic-Con’s Artists’ Alley, and is editor and co-publisher of Exhibit A Press
Ricardo Delgado
Eisner Award-Winning creator of Age of Reptiles, Storyboard Artist of Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Incredibles, How to Train Your Dragon and Men in Black.
Buzz Dixon
Writer for Animation Classics such as G.I. Joe, Transformers, Thundarr The Barbarian, Batman: The Animated Series and Tiny Toon Adventures.
Steve Leialoha
Steve Leialohais best known for his inking and penciling on Fables from the first issue to the last, garnering five Eisner Awards. Since the mid 70’s, he has also drawn Dr. Strange, Iron Man, the X-Men, New Mutants, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Star Trek.
Phil Yeh
Phil Yeh started drawing and writing his own comic books in elementary school and formed his own publishing company in 1970, after attending the first San Diego Comic-Con.
David M. Booher
GLAAD-nominated writer of Canto, Rain, Killer Queens and All New Firefly.
Christopher Sequeira
Editor of CAPED FEAR: SUPERHUMAN HORROR STORIES, Editor-in-Chief and anthologist for IFWG Publishing’s SF parallel universe books and ‘Cthulhu Deep Down Under.’
Hugo A. Castro
Hugo has been one of the top promoters of the Mexican game development industry and founded and leads the creative media production house BC Media Lab.
Frank Santana
Frank Santana is the Herpetology Collections Manager at the San Diego Natural History Museum. He is a biologist with a passion for conservation and sharing his love of nature with his friends and family.
Dr. Linda Hirst
Linda Hirst is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Merced where she has been a faculty member since 2008 after spending three years on the faculty in the Physics Department at Florida State University.
Sydney Heifler
Sydney Heifler is a comic book historian who specializes in romance comics. She is a graduate of the MSt in Women’s Studies from the University of Oxford. She is a Distinguished University Fellow and a current Ph.D. student in the history department at the Ohio State University.
Pearl Stickler
Pearl Stickler was elected President of S.T.A.R. San Diego in 1975, holding that position for numerous years. Pearl created and chaired both America's Quincentennial Celebration in 1976 and Whattacon '79.
Jeff Burns
Jeff is the creator of superhero comedy series Super Knocked Up and host of improv comedy show Super Geeked Up. He’s one of the authors of the Dragons of a Different Tail anthology and writes comedic, geeky erotica as Riley Rose. He loves being part of Comic Fest!
Larry Niven
Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Larry Niven is a legend in the field of science fiction.
Tony Benedict
Writer and animator known for Santa and the Three Bears (1970), The Jetsons (1962) and Daffy Duck's Easter Show (1980).