The latest round of guests added to Baltimore Comic-Con include Cliff Chiang, Mike Hawthorne, Adriana Melo, Bob McLeod, Bill Morrison, and Joseph Schmalke. The comic-focused convention will return to the Baltimore Convention Center on September 25-27, 2026.

Chiang began his career as an assistant editor 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. Chiang recently wrote and drew Catwoman: Lonely City.

Hawthorne provided art on a record setting run of Deadpool, as well as Daredevil, Spider-Man, Hulk, and Superman. In addition to comics, he has done storyboard and conceptual art for Epic Games, Marvel, Fox, Illumination, and Universal. Archaia/BOOM! Studios recently published his autobiographical comic Happiness Will Follow.

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, 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.

McLeod is best known for co-creating and illustrating Marvel’s The New Mutants. Throughout his career, he has penciled or inked major titles for Marvel and DC, including Spider-Man, X-Men, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, GI Joe, Star Wars, The Hulk, and Conan. He also wrote and illustrated the Superhero ABC children’s book, edited and wrote articles for Twomorrow’s Rough Stuff magazine, and taught art at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design.

Morrison is a cartoonist, writer, and illustrator who painted dozens of movie posters, including The Little Mermaid, Bambi, Peter Pan, and Cinderella. He did a lot of work for The Simpsons by creating illustrations for t-shirts, video games, posters, toy packaging, and books. When The Simpsons jumped into comics, Morrison became the art director of the book and later edited all of Bongo’s titles. He did character design for Futurama and was an artist and designer on Disenchantment. He has written and drawn his own comics like Roswell and Little Green Man, and co-created Heroes Anonymous, Dead Vengeance, and Lady Robotika.

Schmalke is a comic creator, writer, illustrator and publisher of Midnight Factory. His work has been featured in Seven Years in Darkness, We Don’t Kill Spiders, Murder Hobo, One Last Trick, Prophets of Doom, The Infernal Pact, Cherry Blackbird, Phantom Starkiller, and The Electric Black. He has also produced variant covers for Image, BOOM!, Vault Comics, Mad Cave, Archie, IDW, and others.

“As a comics fan, there is such a wide variety of content from which to choose,” Baltimore Comic-Con show promoter Marc Nathan said. “These guests offer everything from kids comics to horror and everything in between. We’re going to have a great 2026 event!”