First 20 Special Guests Announced for San Diego Comic-Con 2014!
And so it begins. With the first actual announcement of details for the San Diego Comic-Con 2014, the snowballing of regular updates is surely imminent.
Before the first Badge Sale has even been scheduled, we have our first twenty confirmed names for the Con next year – a fantastic and wide selection of top-shelf creative talent if ever I saw one.
Highlights of the announcement include: Amanda Conner (coming to the fore with some stand-out work on the Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre title), Jane Espenson (more television credits to list here but currently writing for ‘Once Upon A Time’ and ‘Husbands’), Scott Snyder (writing for DC Comics on their ‘Batman’ and ‘Superman Unchained’ titles) and the wonderful Fiona Staples (multi-awarding winning artist, most recently of course for ‘Saga’).
The full list consists of:
Amanda Conner
Artist: Power Girl, Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre
Brian Crane
Cartoonist: Pickles
Eleanor Davis
Cartoonist/illustrator: Stinky, How to Be Happy
Jane Espenson
Writer/producer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Husbands
Raymond Feist
Author: Riftwar Saga
Drew Friedman
Illustrator: RAW, Old Jewish Comedians, Heroes of the Comic Books
Michael T. Gilbert
Writer/artist: Mr. Monster
Willie Ito
Animator/cartoonist: Disney, WB, Hanna-Barbera
Caitlin R. Kiernan
Author: The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, Alabaster: Wolves
Lucy Knisley
Writer/artist: Relish, French Milk
David Lasky
Artist: The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song
Graham Nolan
Artist: Detective Comics, The Phantom, Joe Frankenstein
Jimmy Palmiotti
Writer: All-Star Western, Painkiller Jane
Benoît Peeters
Writer: The Obscure Cities, The Leaning Girl
Don Rosa
Cartoonist: Uncle $crooge, Donald Duck
Jim Rugg
Artist/illustrator,: Supermag, Afrodisiac
François Schuiten
Artist: The Obscure Cities, The Leaning Girl
Scott Snyder
Writer: Batman, Superman Unchained, American Vampire
Fiona Staples
Artist :Saga
Gene Luen Yang
Writer/artist: Boxers & Saints, American Born Chinese
More details as they they announced. Anyone you’d like to see appear at SDCC this year? Comments below, as always…