San Diego Comic-Con is busy building their guest list for the comic and pop culture extravaganza scheduled for July 24-27, 2025. Last week, they named the first wave of special guests, and now they have added Julio Anta, Alison Bechdel, Eddie Campbell, Todd Klein, and Jonathan Maberry.

Anta has written many graphic novels, like the Eisner-nominated Frontera, This Land is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story, and Speak Up Santiago. He has written for DC, Marvel, and Image, and won the Children’s Book Council’s Young Adults’ Favorites Award.

Bechdel is a writer and cartoonist known for the Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip that ran from 1983 to 2008, and the graphic memoirs Are You My Mother?, The Secret to Superhuman Strength, and Fun Home, which was adapted into a five-time Tony winning musical. She is in the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame and her newest book, Spent: A Comic Novel, was recently published.

Campbell is best known as the artist of the From Hell graphic novel by Alan Moore. He wrote two volumes of Bacchus; Alec: The Years Have Pants, collecting 30 years of his autobiographical comics. More recently, he has written about the history of cartooning in The Goat Getters and Kate Carew: America’s First Great Woman Cartoonist.

Klein has been working in comics since 1977 when he was in DC’s production department. He worked as a writer, inker, and colorist, before finding his calling as a letterer. He has worked for DC, Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, and Disney, lettering over 75,000 comic pages and covers and he designed over 800 logos. He has won 16 Eisner Awards for lettering.

Maberry has written over 50 novels, is a New York Times bestselling author, and a five-time Bram Stoker Award winner. He has written comics for Marvel, IDW, and Dark Horse, is the president of the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, and editor of Weird Tales Magazine. His V-Wars was a Netflix series, Rot & Ruin is being developed as a film, and his Joe Ledger thrillers are being developed for television.