Baltimore Comic-Con Announces Six Guests

The Baltimore Comic-Con is building an impressive group of guests for the convention on September 20-22, 2024. The previously announced Jim Lee will be joined by Eddie Campbell, Frank Cho, Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Louise and Walter Simonson.

Campbell was an artist on Alan Moore’s From Hell and recently made a digitally colored edition of the book. He is known for the omnibus editions of Alec: The Years Have Pants and Bacchus, and his latest work is The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell.

Cho’s career began with work in his college’s newspaper on the strip University2, which was the predecessor of his creator-owned Liberty Meadows. His art has appeared in New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Shanna the She-Devil, New Ultimates, X-Men: Schism, Jungle Girl, and for his covers on Harley Quinn.

Conner’s comics career began with art in Marvel’s Barbie line and Disney’s Gargoyles comics, which led to work on X-Men, Vampirella, and her creator-owned one-shot, The Pro. Her art has appeared in Supergirl, Painkiller Jane, Wonder Woman, Power Girl, and Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre. She co-wrote the highly successful Harley Quinn series with her husband, Jimmy Palmiotti, and wrote her creator owned series BOOM-POW for their company, Paperfilms.

In addition to his body of work in comics, Palmiotti has worked in advertising, screenwriting, film production, video game development, and more. He co-founded Event Comics, Black Bull Media, and the Marvel Knights imprint, acting as a supervisor on Black Panther, Daredevil, and other film and TV projects. At DC, he wrote Jonah Hex, Power Girl, Batman, Superman, and co-wrote Harley Quinn with his wife, Amanda Conner. He co-owns Paperfilms, which creates titles in a wide range of genres, and is currently writing the monthly series, Deadly Tales of the Gunslinger for Todd McFarlane.

Louise Simonson worked as an editor at Warren Publishing then moved on to Marvel as editor on X-Men, New Mutants, and Star Wars. She has written for Marvel Team-Up, Web of Spider-Man, and Red Sonja, and introduced Apocalypse in X-Factor. She also worked on Superman: The Man of Steel and The Adventures of Superman at DC.

Walter Simonson is a writer and artist who has worked on titles like Weird War Tales, Manhunter, Metal Men, Orion, Wonder Woman, Hawkgirl, Vigilante, and Hercules Unbound. At Marvel, he had notable runs on The Rampaging Hulk magazine, X-Factor, Fantastic Four, and Thor, on which he introduced Beta Ray Bill and Thor as a frog.