Baltimore Comic-Con has announced six returning guests to the list of creators attending the convention on October 17-19, 2025. The latest additions are John Beatty, Jim Cheung, José Luis García-López, Shawn Martinbrough, Adriana Melo, and Craig Rousseau.

Beatty started working for DC and Marvel when he was 19 years old, and his early work was as the finisher on JLA and inker on Captain America. Then he and Mike Zeck provided the art on Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars and they paired again on The Punisher miniseries and graphic novel. At DC, Beatty was the inker on Batman: Year 3 and early issues of Legends of the Dark Knight. He moved into DC Licensing, producing vector ink and color for style guides for movies, animated series, and licensed products.

Cheung’s comic art career began with Marvel UK in the mid-1990s, then he transitioned to Iron Man, X-Force, and co-created Scion for Crossgen Comics in the US. At Marvel he created titles like Infinity and Young Avengers, and has worked on Justice League, Avengers vs. X-Men, New Avengers, and Original Sin.

García-López began drawing comics professionally when he was 13 years old. Since the early ‘70s he worked for DC on titles like Superman, Batman, Hawkman, Tarzan, and Jonah Hex, and did notable work on Atari Force, Deadman, New Teen Titans, and On The Road to Perdition. In the early ‘80s, he famously designed and penciled the definitive looks for Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman, among other DC characters, for the DC style guides.

Martinbrough is the author of How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling. The creator-artist has worked with DC Comics, Marvel, and Dark Horse Comics projects include Batman: Detective Comics, Luke Cage Noir, Captain America, The Black Panther, and Hellboy. Characters co-created by Martinbrough have been featured in the feature film Deadpool, the animated Batman: Gotham Knights, the FOX television series Gotham, The Gifted, and the Justice League feature film. He is also the artist of the popular Thief of Thieves series, published by Skybound/Image Comics, written by Robert Kirkman.

Melo is a penciler and artist who has worked with DC, Marvel, Image, and Titan. Her work has been featured in Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Silver Surfer, Amazing Spider-Man, Star Wars: Empire, Rose & Thorn, Witchblade, Miss Marvel, Birds of Prey, Catwoman, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, Female Furies, Plastic Man, Dr. Who: New Adventures of the Ninth Doctor, Marvel Voices, and Trial of the Amazons. Some of her recent work has been in Wonder Girl and Superman: Action Comics.

Rousseau’s art talents have been utilized in Batman Beyond, Harley Quinn, and Batman ’66 at DC, and Iron Man & the Iron Wars, Captain America & the Korvac Saga, and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane. He has recently worked on Young Hellboy and his creator-owned The Perhapanauts.

“These guests have worked on everything from major indie comics characters to Marvel and DC’s biggest characters,” Baltimore Comic-Con show promoter Marc Nathan said. “Their collective resume is amazing, as is their impact on the landscape of the comics industry. We’re thrilled to have them join us, and fans are going to be excited to meet them this year at the Baltimore Comic-Con!”