Baltimore Comic-Con is building a large guest list of comic creators for the show on September 25-27, 2026. The latest round of guests set to appear at the Baltimore Convention Center are Keith Champagne, Randy Green, Bob Hall, Phil Noto, Khoi Pham, and Afua Richardson.

Champagne is a writer, artist, and inker known for his work at DC on JSA, Green Lantern, and Superman. His creator owned titles include The Mighty with Peter J. Tomasi, The Switch: Electricia, Stranger Things, Neon Future, and Frank N. Stein: Private Eye.

Green started his art career in advertising agencies while also working at Dark Horse and Image. His first long run in comics came in Top Cow’s Witchblade, then Tomb Raider, his creator owned Dollz, then he worked on Emma Frost and New X-Men Academy X. In recent years, Green worked behind the scenes for Disney Parks, contributed to books at Dark Horse and Aspen Comics, and Stopwatch written by Beau Smith.

Hall has had a long association with Marvel as the artist on many of their major books and characters. His work has been seen in The Champions, Spider-Man, Conan, Thor, The Fantastic Four, The Sub-Mariner, Captain America, The Avengers, and The New Mutants. He was the artist on the West Coast Avengers miniseries and main artist on the original Squadron Supreme. He drew movie adaptations of Willow and the original Captain America movie. At Valiant, he wrote and penciled Shadowman, wrote Timewalker, and created Armed and Dangerous. His DC work included writing and drawing Batman DOA, I Joker, and It’s Jokertime. Recently, he has created educational comics about measles, mosquitoes, COVID-19, and vaccine hesitancy.

Noto is a comic artist, painter, and illustrator known for his work in Black Widow and Star Wars comics. His career began at Walt Disney Feature Animation on films like Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan, and Lilo and Stitch. He moved to comics in 2001 as a cover artist for Birds of Prey, followed by work in Danger Girl, Jonah Hex, Avengers, Uncanny X-Force, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Daredevil, Cable, and X-Men. Outside of comics, he has illustrated middle grade novels for Lucasfilm Publishing, and he’s done work for Time magazine, and Entertainment Weekly.

Pham’s art has appeared in Teen Titans, Mighty Avengers, X-Men Legacy, Scarlet Spider, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Chaos War, Gambit, Mighty Thor, X-Factor, and Cyberforce. He has done cover art for various publications, and before he became an artist, Pham was an attorney and venture capitalist.

Richardson is known for her work on Marvel’s Black Panther: World of Wakanda, along with work on The Wild Storm, Attack on Titan, X-Men ’92, Captain Marvel, and All-Star Batman. She is also a musician, voice actor, activist, and recipient of the Nina Simone award.

“We’re so happy to have these folks joining us in 2026,” Baltimore Comic-Con show promoter Marc Nathan said. “With some truly spectacular works under their belt, and being nice people on top of that, we are privileged to welcome to this year’s convention.”