Baltimore Comic-Con’s 25th anniversary event will be held on September 20-22, 2024, at the Baltimore Convention Center. The guest list is continuing to grow with the additions of Cliff Chiang, Mitch Gerads, Andrew Pepoy, Don Simpson, Babs Tarr, and Marv Wolfman.
Chiang began his career in editorial on Disney Adventures Magazine and at DC’s Vertigo imprint before moving into freelance illustration. His previous work includes runs on Human Target, Green Arrow & Black Canary, Wonder Woman with Brian Azzarello, and the Eisner Award-winning Paper Girls, co-created with Brian K. Vaughan. His recent work was writing and drawing Catwoman: Lonely City.
Gerads is an Eisner and Ringo award-winning illustrator who has made a career out of bringing humanity and realism to the superhuman and unreal. He is best known for his critically acclaimed work at DC Comics with writer Tom King on Mister Miracle, Batman, and The Sheriff of Babylon.
Pepoy has worked on hundreds of comics, such as The Simpsons, Fables, Batman, The X-Men, Iron Man, Star Wars, Scooby Doo, Betty & Veronica, and Uncle Scrooge. He redesigned Little Orphan Annie and drew the newspaper strip, and wrote and drew Archie’s Katy Keene. His recent work includes inking Simpsons comics, providing art for MAD Magazine, and doing covers for Doctor Who, Archie vs. Predator II, and Red Sonja.
Simpson is best known for creating the satirical superhero series Megaton Man, the sci-fi Border Worlds, and Marvel’s one-shot CRAZY! reboot. He has worked on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at Mirage Studios, Splitting Image at Image, King Kong at Fantagraphics, and Flash Annual, Secret Origins, and Action Comics at DC. Under his Fiasco Comics imprint, he has published Bizarre Heroes. His recent work included the weekly prose novel The Ms. Megaton Man Maxi-Series.
Tarr is an artist known for her run on Batgirl, becoming the first female artist to work long-term on a Bat-family title. She has worked on DC’s Young Animal imprint, as well as at Marvel and Image as an interior and cover artist. She has been featured in Motor Crush, Black Canary, Justice League, Doom Patrol, Stranger Things, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink, Young Gotham Sampler, and others.
Wolfman got his start in comics in the 1960s by writing and editing for fanzines. His professional career started at DC in Blackhawk, Teen Titans, Showcase, and Weird Mystery Tales. Moving over to Marvel, he would rise to become Editor in Chief. He had an extensive run on Tomb of Dracula, and created characters like Blade, Bullseye, Nova, and Black Cat. Returning to DC, Wolfman relaunched New Teen Titans, co-creating Raven, Cyborg, and Starfire. He worked on Action Comics, Dial H for Hero, Green Lantern, and the iconic limited series, Crisis on Infinite Earths. He was an editor and wrote for Disney Comics, and went back to DC for Nightwing, Convergence: Adventures of Superman, and Convergence: New Teen Titans.
“This is so exciting,” Baltimore Comic-Con show promoter Marc Nathan said. “We’re bringing some of the biggest names in comics to our fans this year, from titans (no pun intended) whose work dates back to the ‘60s through some of the biggest names working in comics today. This year is going to be huge. Huge.”
