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The Definitive Guide

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Dragon Con welcomes guests from around the globe – with new people announced all the time! Take a look at the inventive minds, luminaries, and celebrities you’ll be spending the weekend with.

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For a list of guests, performers, and attending professionals ordered by confirmation date:

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  • Don Aguillo

    Don Aguillo is a comic artist and illustrator whose work includes projects with DC, Image, Marvel, Boom, Dark Horse, Disney/Ravensburger, Upper Deck, and indie creators.

  • Jarrod C Alberich

    Independent comic book creator. Creator/writer of Hamilton vs. Burr: A Werewolf Tale. Published comic writer for Z2 Comics. Trading card artist for Marvel Comics & Upper Deck Trading Cards. Cover artist & inker for White Rocket Books. US Air Force combat veteran.

  • Kevin J. Anderson

    Kevin J. Anderson has written in the Dune, Star Wars, and X-Files universes, Clockwork Angels with legendary Rush drummer Neil Peart, and the Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. series. He has edited anthologies, written comics and games, and served as co-producer on Dune: Part Part Two and the Dune: Prophecy TV series.

  • Jon Armstrong

    Jon Armstrong stars in Magicians: Life in the Impossible. You have seen him amaze on The Today Show, cause Penn on CW's Penn and Teller's Fool Us to exclaim his act as “the most original I've ever seen!”, and wow Jay Leno on The Tonight Show.

  • Paris K Arrowsmith

    Paris Arrowsmith's career has spanned stage, voice acting, and screen. After moving to LA, he started working as a podcaster on No Latency and freelance TTRPG writer for R. Talsorian Games.

  • Eric R. Asher

    Eric R. Asher is the author of over 30 titles, including Steamborn, the Vesik series, and The Theme Park at the End of the World. He is currently living in St. Louis, Missouri, where the local folklore often finds its way into his Mason Dixon: Monster Hunter rural fantasy series.

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  • Andy Belanger

    Andy Belanger works as a freelance cartoonist/illustrator. He does work in the mainstream comic market, plus a wide variety of work for the Canadian Film and Television industry. In the mainstream comic market, Belanger has worked for such comic publishers as DC Comics, Wildstorm, Devil's Due, and Boom!

  • BREED

    BREED is a professional artist whose work has been featured by Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Zenescope Entertainment, 20th Century Studios, IDW, Source Point Press, Counterpoint Comics, Stranger Comics, Action Lab Entertainment, Mountaineer West Productions, UpperDeck Co./MCU, Kymera Press, Entity Eye Entertainment, Warrant Publishing, and various film/TV production companies.

  • Patricia L. Briggs

    Patricia Briggs is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson and Alpha and Omega urban fantasy series.

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  • Jack Campbell

    Jack Campbell (John G. Hemry), retired U.S. Navy officer, writes the series Doomed Earth, New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet, Genesis Fleet, Lost Stars, and Pillars of Reality. His latest books are Destiny's Way, In Our Stars, The Empress of the Endless Sea trilogy, and Rendezvous with Corsair.

  • Lipwei Chang

    Lipwei Chang is a comic artist and illustrator from Malaysia. He has been actively involved in several projects of illustrations and comic pages, with his comic art style.

  • Wesley Chu

    Wesley Chu is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 14 published novels, including The Art of Prophecy, Time Salvager, The Rise of Io, and The Walking Dead: Typhoon. He won the Astounding Award for Best New Writer.

  • Freddy F Clements

    Freddy Clements is a distinguished professor emeritus of costume and make-up design and technology at Jacksonville State University. He holds a MFA in costume design from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has designed costumes for various regional theatres and has extensive experience in early twentieth century corsetry and kilt making.

  • Joe Corroney

    Joe Corroney has been illustrating Star Wars artwork for Disney and Lucasfilm and Star Trek artwork for CBS Studios since 1997, as well as a host of other properties. New Star Wars artwork and various other licensees are in the works for publication later this year.

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  • Delilah S Dawson

    Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Phasma, Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade, Bloom, Guillotine, The Violence, the Minecraft: Mob Squad series, the Blud series, the Shadow series (written as Lila Bowen), and the Tales of Pell, written with Kevin Hearne.

  • Keith R.A. DeCandido

    Keith R.A. DeCandido has written tons of novels, short fiction, and comics in licensed universes from Alien to Zorro, and also in worlds of his own creation. His new series, Supernatural Crimes Unit, will debut in 2025 from Weird Tales Presents. He also writes about pop culture for Reactor magazine.

  • Darrin Lee Drader

    Darrin Drader is a professional tabletop role-playing game designer with 25 years of experience in the field. He has written for Wizards of the Coast, Paizo Publishing, Legendary Games, Bastion Press, and many other publishers.

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  • Matt Frank

    Matt Frank is known in both Japan and America as the "Kaiju King," working on Godzilla comics for IDW since 2011. Frank has also worked on Ultraman, Gamera, Power Rangers, Transformers, Mothra: Queen of the Monsters, as well as pinball machines, Blu-Ray releases, and more!

  • Chandra Free

    Chandra Free is the creator of The God Machine graphic novel series and co-founder of Machina Corpse imprint. She illustrated on books like John Carpenter's Tales For A Halloween Night, Fraggle Rock, and The Graphic Canon. She has also worked on TTRPG books like Carbon Grey and Planet of the Apes.

  • Esther Friesner

    Multiple Nebula Award winner Esther Friesner has published over 40 novels, more than 200 short stories, plus poetry and nonfiction. She has edited 11 anthologies including the Chicks in Chainmail series for Baen Books. Her YA credits include the Princesses of Myth series for Random House.

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  • Brianna Garcia

    Brianna is an illustrator and comic artist currently working on My Little Pony comics and the Disney Lorcana trading card game. She has worked on interiors for Disney Princess comics, covers for Captain Marvel, Feral, and illustrations for Butterbean's Café, Disney Imagineering, and done storyboard work for Warner Bros Animation.

  • Bill Golliher

    Bill Golliher has been a writer and artist for Archie Comics for 30 plus years. Golliher has worked on scripting and illustrating quite a diverse set of titles for the company: Betty and Veronica Friends Forever, Veronica, Jughead's Diner, Archie 3000, Dilton's Strange Science, and many more.

  • Michael A. Gordon

    Michael Gordon is a writer, editor, publisher, and podcaster. His creator-owned comic, Tiki Zombie, has been running for over a decade. He can also be regularly found saying “Howdy!” on the BatChums, Earth Station Who, and Dragon Con Report podcasts.

  • Kevin Grazier

    Kevin Grazier Ph.D. is a planetary physicist and was a scientist on the Cassini Mission to Saturn team. He has served as the science advisor for several television series and feature films and is the co-author of the Hollyweird Science series of books.

  • Jen L. Grey

    Jen L. Grey is a USA Today bestselling author of urban fantasy, romantic fantasy, and paranormal romance. Known for angsty fated mate stories packed with action, she has published over 60 novels, with several series translated into foreign languages.

  • Andrew Lee Griffith

    Andrew Lee Griffith is a pop culture artist best known for his stints as the lead artist on books such as Transformers, G.I. Joe, Star Wars, and Micronauts. He is currently working on Godzilla and the creator-owned comic SIGNA, as well as Magic the Gathering.

  • Clay Shepard Griffith

    Clay Griffith is the co-author of fantasy fiction with his wife, Susan, including the Vampire Empire series, the Crown & Key trilogy, and The Flash and Arrow. He is a comic book writer for characters such as The Tick, The Simpsons, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

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  • Robert E Hampson

    Dr. Robert E. Hampson is a neuroscientist by day, science fiction author by night, and a brain wrangler 24/7. When he is not decoding how memories work or building brain-computer tech, he is busy imagining futures where science fiction becomes reality.

  • AJ Hartley

    A.J. Hartley is the international bestselling author of 26 novels in various genres. Recent work includes Hideki Smith, Burning Shakespeare, Cold Bath Street, Impervious, Cathedrals of Glass, and Sekret Machines with Tom DeLonge. He is Professor Emeritus of Shakespeare at UNC Charlotte and hosts a J-rock focused YouTube channel.

  • John G. Hartness

    John G. Hartness is an author, publisher, and editor from Charlotte, NC. He is the author of multiple series, including the award winning Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter series. He is also the publisher of Falstaff Books and founder of the SAGA Genre Fiction Writers' Conference.

  • Tom Heintjes

    Tom Heintjes is the co-founder and publisher of Hogan's Alley magazine, one of the leading magazines on contemporary and classic cartooning. He is a former managing editor of The Comics Journal and for years wrote biographical essays for Will Eisner's Spirit magazine for Kitchen Sink Press.

  • Kenneth Hite

    Kenneth Hite has written 100+ TTRPGs, including Trail of Cthulhu, The Dracula Dossier, Bubblegumshoe, and Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition. Half of the multiple-award winning podcast Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff, he lives in Chicago with two cats and his wife, Sheila.

  • Bill Holbrook

    Bill Holbrook is the creator of three daily comic strips: On the Fastrack seen through the eyes of Dethany, the corporate Goth. Safe Havens is a science fiction fantasy set in a genetics lab. In 1995 he began a strip called Kevin & Kell, the internet's longest running daily webcomic.

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  • Les Johnson

    Les Johnson is a physicist, author, and chief technologist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. His recent books include Crisis at Proxima (Baen), A Traveler's Guide to the Stars (Princeton University Press), and the forthcoming Pluto: The Dark World (completing Ben Bova's Grand Tour series, Tor).

  • E.K. Johnston

    E.K. Johnston is the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of 17 books for YA readers, including Star Wars: Ahsoka, Titan Of The Stars, and Sky On Fire.

  • Dan Jolley

    Dan Jolley has written comic books, media tie-in novels, original novels, video games, TV pilots, and dramatic podcasts for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Harper-Collins, Simon & Shuster, Activision-Blizzard, Ubisoft, and Sega. He wrote the main story for the world-wide bestselling game Dying Light.

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  • Richard Kadrey

    Richard Kadrey is the NYT bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series, which was included in Amazon's 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime. He has been nominated for the Locus and BSFA awards, appeared in Year's Best Horror, and written for comics, film, and games.

  • Bill Keel

    Astronomer Bill Keel is the author of The Sky at Einstein's Feet and The Road to Galaxy Formation. He hosts overnight live astronomy sessions and has spoken on cosmology, extrasolar planets, citizen discovery in astronomy, science in the Firefly and Avatar universes, spy satellites, and astronomical tourism.

  • Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Defying odds is what #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon does best. She has placed more than 80 novels on the NYT list in all formats and genres. With more than 70 million books in print, her series include: Dark-Hunters®, Chronicles of Nick®, Deadman's Cross™, and The League®.

  • Nancy Knight

    Nancy Knight authored novels, short stories, produced plays, film scripts, and edited anthologies. She served as director of Writers' Track for 26 years. She was awarded the Hank Reinhardt Award. Georgia Romance Writers named an award after her for mentoring writers. She received the Polaris lifetime achievement from Falstaff Books.

  • Gini Koch

    Gini Koch writes the fast, fresh, and funny Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series for DAW Books, as well as many other novels, novellas, novelettes, and short stories in all the genres and under a variety of pen names, including G.J. Koch, Anita Ensal, Jemma Chase, A.E. Stanton, and J.C. Koch.

  • Mike Kunkel

    Mike Kunkel is a cartoonist known, among other things, for his work on Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! and for his creator-owned Herobear and the Kid, for which he has won two Eisner awards.

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  • Creees Lee

    Creees Lee is a variant cover artist and is the interior artist for Black Mask's Lab Raider. He has worked for Image, Dynamite, and Chapterhouse Comics.

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  • Jonathan Maberry

    Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling multi-genre novelist, comic book writer, anthology editor, executive producer, and editor of Weird Tales Magazine.

  • Erin Macdonald

    Erin Macdonald, PhD is known for her work as the Star Trek franchise science advisor. In addition, she is a writer, speaker, producer, voice actor, and has written on Star Trek: Adventures, a baby board book Star Trek: My First Book of Space, and has voiced her own character.

  • Annette Marie

    Annette Marie is the author of 30+ fantasy books, including The Guild Codex, Steel & Stone, and Red Winter series. A Goodreads Choice Awards finalist and an Amazon Charts bestseller, Marie has sold two million books featuring her unique blend of fast-paced adventure, addictive slow-burn romance, and unforgettable characters.

  • Gail Z Martin

    Gail Z. Martin writes urban fantasy, epic fantasy, steampunk, and more. Urban fantasy series include Deadly Curiosities and Night Vigil. Epic fantasy series include Darkhurst, Chronicles of the Necromancer, The Fallen Kings Cycle, The Ascendant Kingdoms Saga, and Assassins of Landria.

  • Todd J McCaffrey

    New York Times bestselling author Todd J. McCaffrey has collaborated with Anne McCaffrey (his mother) on five Dragonriders of Pern novels and has written three Pern novels on his own.

  • Mark McDonagh

    Mark McDonagh is a physicist and retired Navy submarine force Captain who has been running the National Security Decision Making Game since 1990. He lectures on emerging technology, modern weapons, geopolitical topics, and military history with expertise in the American Revolution, WWII, the Cold War, and history of submarine warfare.

  • Amy Mebberson

    Comic artist and toy designer for Disney and Hasbro. Best known for Disney Princess and My LittlePony comics. Also the creator of viral Disney fancomic Pocket Princesses.

  • Mark Meer

    Mark Meer is known for his work on Bioware's Mass Effect trilogy, voicing Commander Shepard, Blasto, the Vorcha, and Niftu Cal. Other voice credits include the Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age series, Hinterland Studio's The Long Dark, ChaosForge's Jupiter Hell, Beamdog's MythForce, and Starro the Conquerer in WB Games' Gotham Knights.

  • John Jackson Miller

    John Jackson Miller is a New York Times bestselling author of novels and comics for Star Wars, Star Trek, Batman, Battlestar Galactica, and Marvel. His new novel tying into the Tim Burton Batman movies, Batman: Revolution, releases in 2025 from Random House Worlds.

  • Andrea Lorenzo Molinari

    Andrea Lorenzo Molinari, Ph.D. is co-writer of The Shepherd graphic novel series. Molinari is editorial director for Scout Comics and was submissions editor/editor for Caliber Comics, an editor for Amigo Comics, and has edited books published by Action Lab Entertainment, Behemoth, Second Sight, Cosmic Times, and New Friday Comics.

  • James C Mulligan

    James Mulligan has been a Disney artist for over two decades, with properties featuring everything from the classics to recent favorite Frozen. His design, fine art, and gallery work includes Playboy, Coca-Cola, Fox, Dreamworks, Warner Brothers, the Chuck Jones family, Marvel, DC, Lexus, and the Elvis Presley Estate.

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  • Bobby Nash

    Bobby Nash is an award winning author, artist, and actor. He writes novels, comic books, short stories, screenplays, audio dramas, and more. Nash is a member of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, International Thriller Writers, and Southeastern Writers Association.

  • Jody Lynn Nye

    Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as "spoiling cats". When not engaged in this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction. She has published over 50 books and more than 200 stories. Nye teaches writing seminars and is coordinating judge for the Writers of the Future Contest.

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  • Justin Christopher Orr

    Justin Orr aka “JUSSCOPE” is a concept artist and animator from Northern California. He has worked in numerous artistic fields including animation, gaming, and advertising. He has worked with companies such as Nickelodeon, MTV, Wild Brain, and TBS, and has spent time in Japan as a concept artist.

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  • Diana Peterfreund

    Diana Peterfreund is the author of over a dozen for adults, teens, and kids, including Secret Society Girl, the Killer Unicorn books, Omega City, and the Clue mysteries. Her latest YA mystery kicks off a series about a teenage detective descended from Edgar Allan Poe.

  • Van Allen Plexico

    Van Allen Plexico is a multi-award winning writer best known for the Sentinels illustrated superhero novels and comics, 1960s crime novels, and The Shattering space opera universe. His White Rocket Entertainment network features multiple video and podcast channels covering James Bond, Babylon 5, The Avengers, and more.

  • Robert Pope

    With over 35 years in comics, animation, and children's books, Robert Pope has drawn a who's who of cartoon favorites, including the Peanuts gang, Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo, Batman, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Johnny Bravo, and many more for DC, BOOM, IDW, Simon and Schuster, Disney Publishing, and others.

  • Cherie M. Priest

    Cherie Priest is the author of about 30 books and novellas, most recently It Was Her House First, The Drowning House, and Cinderwich - but also including the Booking Agents mysteries, an assortment of southern gothics, acclaimed alt-history Maplecroft, and the award winning Clockwork Century series, beginning with Boneshaker.

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  • Livio J Ramondelli

    Livio Ramondelli's art credits include a longtime run illustrating Transformers for IDW publishing. He also created the acclaimed original science fiction series The Kill Lock, published at the same studio. He is currently illustrating variant covers for the new era of Transformers in the Skybound/Image Comics era.

  • Aaron Reynolds

    Aaron Reynolds is the four-time Webby award winning author of Effin' Birds, a comic strip pairing intricate artwork with mundane daily frustrations read by over a million people every day. His first book, Effin' Birds: A Field Guide to Identification, hit bookstores in 2019 and is a bestseller.

  • Afua Richardson

    Afua Richardson is an American illustrator, author, musician, singer, songwriter, and mentor. In 2007, she made history as one of the first Indigenous Afro-American female artists to work for Marvel Comics as a penciler, inker, and colorist, earning the Nina Simone Award for artistic excellence.

  • Corinne Roberts

    Corinne Roberts is an illustrator working in comics and children's books (Bug Bites, Drawing Dragons, and the Out and About series). Her other illustration projects include the Wanderlust Deck and Dragon Calendar series.

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  • Steve Saffel

    Steve Saffel edited SF, fantasy, and horror for Random House, Marvel, and Titan, with creators like Eric Flint, N.K. Jemisin, Stan Lee, Robert McGinnis, Scott Sigler, and Alex White. He has worked on Alien, Halo, Conan, Mass Effect, Spider-Man, Star Wars, and more.

  • Robert J. Sawyer

    Robert J. Sawyer has won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial awards; all for best science fiction novel of the year. The ABC TV series FlashForward was based on his Aurora Award winning novel of the same name, and he was one of the writers for that program.

  • TJ Sterling

    TJ Sterling is a former Marvel and DC creator that has worked in several spaces within the comic industry, as well as the indie space with his fan favorite comic company RAE Comics. Sterling is also a teacher at the Joe Kubert School of Comic and Cartoon art.

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  • Adam Bryce Thomas

    Adam Bryce Thomas is a comic artist and illustrator, most notably for IDW's Sonic the Hedgehog, DC's recent Sonic/ Justice League crossover, and many other titles.

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  • Jean Marie Ward

    Jean Marie Ward writes fiction, nonfiction, and everything in between. Her credits include a multi-award nominated novel, numerous short stories, and two popular art books. The former editor of CrescentBlues.com, she is the author interviewer for BookBale.com and a frequent contributor to the online convention ConTinual. Learn more at JeanMarieWard.com.

  • Michael Watkins

    CEO and EIC of Highburn Studios, Michael Watkins is a creator and illustrator with over 20 years experience in the comics industry. He is known as creator of Guardians and for his work on Transformers and Sonic the Hedgehog. Additionally, he is also a voice actor and avid martial artist.

  • Keith Williams

    Keith Williams, comic book inker. Assistant editor of Spider-Man group of books. As an inker, he has worked for Marvel, DC, King Features Syndicate, Valiant, Dark Horse, Avatar Press, Moonstone, and now Power Comics, inc., A Kid and a Comic, and Green Archer Comics.

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  • Thomas Zahler

    Thom Zahler is a comic creator who created the Cupid's Arrows and Warning Label webtoons and Love and Capes and Time and Vine. His latest is The Ghost Whiskerers for Storm King, about cats that see ghosts. He also works for My Little Pony and is drawing Rocketship's Angry Birds.

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The following previously confirmed guests are unfortunately not able to attend this year’s Dragon Con.

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