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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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  • Lynn Abbey

    Lynn Abbey has been writing science fiction and fantasy stories since the 1980s. She was a guest-of-honor at the first Dragon Con.

  • 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 Image and Z2 Comics. Trading card artist for Marvel Comics and Upper Deck Trading Cards. Cover artist and inker for White Rocket Books. US Air Force combat veteran.

  • Kevin J Anderson

    Kevin J. Anderson is a #1 international bestselling author of nearly 200 books written in the Dune, Star Wars, X-Files, Batman, and other universes. His original work includes the steampunk Clockwork trilogy with legendary Rush drummer Neil Peart, his humorous Dan Shamble Zombie P.I. series, and his Saga of Seven Suns.

  • Emily Andras

    Emily Andras is the showrunner and executive producer of SyFy's new hit series Wynonna Earp. She spent three seasons as showrunner and executive producer of Lost Girl, and worked as supervising producer on Killjoys. Most recently she wrote and produced Summer's Last Resort.

  • Jon Armstrong

    Jon Armstrong tours around the world and is a headliner for Disney. He has amazed 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 wowed 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.

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  • Kat Barrell

    Katherine (Kat) Barrell has shot over 100 episodes of scripted television and 14 feature films. She is best known for her series regular roles in Wynonna Earp, Workin' Moms, and Good Witch. She has two E! People's Choice Awards as part of the Wynonna Earp cast and two individual awards.

  • Davey Beauchamp

    Davey is an ex-librarian turned full time artist. He has worked for BBC, BBCA, and Penguin UK on the Doctor Who property. Beauchamp has done cover art for Falstaff Books and various other publishers. He is currently working with Tavern Publishing writing pen and paper RPG adventures and art.

  • Ryan Benjamin

    Ryan Benjamin is a comic book artist best known for Brothers Bond, Batman Beyond, WildCats, Grifter, Uncanny X-Men, and more. Benjamin worked as a 3D artist on DC Universe Online, and the Marvel MOBAs. His TV and movie credits include ThunderCats, Ultimate Spider-Man, Pacific Rim, and more.

  • 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.

  • Jennie Breeden

    Jennie Breeden is the creator of the autobiographical webcomic The Devil's Panties. She has a BFA in sequential art from Savannah College of Art and Design. Ms. Breeden has been updating her comic daily since 2001 with over 3,000 comic strips online and multiple graphic novels.

  • Patricia Lynne Briggs

    Patricia Briggs is the #1 NYT bestselling author of both the Mercy Thompson series and the Alpha and Omega series. She has also written many high fantasy novels and short stories.

  • Greg Burnham

    Greg Burnham is a writer based in Norcross, Georgia. He and artist Marcus Williams teamed to produce two children's books, and then in 2016 produced the very successful indie sci-fi action-adventure Tuskegee Heirs. As part of the Milestone initiative, he has worked on a couple of DC Comic properties.

  • Jim Butcher

    Jim Butcher is the author of The Dresden Files, the Codex Alera, and his new steampunk series, The Cinder Spires. His resume includes a laundry list of skills which were useful a couple of centuries ago.

  • Richard Lee Byers

    Richard Lee Byers has written numerous fantasy and horror novels as well as short fiction, material for tabletop and computer games, and graphic novels. The Plague Knight, an animated sword-and-sorcery feature he wrote, is currently in production.

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  • Jack Campbell

    Jack Campbell (John G. Hemry), retired U.S. Navy officer, writes the Doomed Earth series, New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet, Genesis Fleet, Lost Stars, and Pillars of Reality. His latest books are Squad Kill, Destiny's Way, Rendezvous with Corsair, and the new Isekai/portal fantasy Champion of the Goddess of Cats.

  • Catieosaurus

    Writer-educator Cate “Catieosaurus” Osborn has collaborated with Wizards of the Coast, Critical Role, Kobold Press, Chaosium, and Foundry VTT while pushing accessibility at every table. Her upcoming book, The ADHD Field Guide for Adults, builds on bylines in Playboy and The New York Times.

  • Jonathan Chaffin

    Jonathan Chaffin: a designer who loves horror literature, pop culture, and Polynesian/pop art. He has designed tiki mugs, apparel, barware, environments, and events through Horror In Clay. Clients include Hooters of America, Netherworld, and Rumba Seattle. He and Allison produce Inuhele: Atlanta's Tiki Weekend and The Atlanta Tiki Homebar Tour.

  • Freddy Clements

    Freddy Clements is a distinguished professor emeritus at Jacksonville State University where he taught classes in costume/make-up design and technology for 35 years. He holds an MFA in costume design from Virginia Commonwealth University and has extensive experience in early 20th century corsetry and kilt construction.

  • Dave Cook

    Dave Cook is a local illustrator of various talents. You may have seen his work as the official poster artist for the Atlanta Rollergirls, in promotional art for Netherworld Haunted House, or gotten a zombie portrait at Dragon Con in past years.

  • Peter L Cutler

    Peter Capn, Cutler artist for New Legends' Tiki Zombie. Done over the last 30 years for ABS inc., Con-Tees, Galactic Press, East Cobber, and Guy Gilchrist production. Also working on his own Spookie Kookies art, books, and many other items.

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  • Fon H Davis

    Fon Davis appears on Battlebots, The Movies that Made Us, Cake Masters, and Superfan Builds. In his three decade career, Davis has worked on 50+ feature films including The Nightmare Before Christmas and the Star Wars series. Recently, Davis worked on Godzilla, Mandalorian, Fly Me to the Moon, and Interstellar.

  • Delilah S Dawson

    Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Star Wars: Phasma, Bloom, The Violence, the Shadow series (as Lila Bowen), the Arcadia Falls series (as Isla Jewell), and the Tales of Pell, written with Kevin Hearne. With Terry Brooks, she is continuing the Shannara series.

  • 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 latest novel series are Supernatural Crimes Unit: NYPD and The Inflictors. He also writes about pop culture for Reactor Magazine.

  • Francine (Fran) Delgado

    Francine Delgado is a Costa Rican-Canadian artist with over a decade of experience. Art director, character designer, and cover artist, she has worked with MARVEL, Disney, and IDW. Inspired by manga and European comics, her bold storytelling and intricate designs bring characters to life in feature films, TV, and comics.

  • Matt Dinniman

    Matt Dinniman is the author of the New York Times bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl book and manga series.

  • Tony DiTerlizzi

    Tony DiTerlizzi is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator known for co-creating The Spiderwick Chronicles. His sci-fi trilogy WondLa is now streaming on Apple TV+. A Caldecott Honor recipient, DiTerlizzi has also illustrated for Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering.

  • Dan dos Santos

    Creating covers for Brandon Sanderson, Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, and more, Dan dos Santos is one of the most recognized artists in his field. With hundreds of book covers to his credit, his vision has helped shape what the fantasy market is today.

  • Tim P Doyle

    Tim Doyle is a pop-art/gig-poster silkscreen print artist working out of Austin, Tx. He founded NAKATOMI in 2009, and has produced art for Marvel, Metallica, and Yo Gabba Gabba!

  • Darrin L Drader

    Darrin Drader has been in the roleplaying business for a quarter century, has worked as a freelancer for major publishers in the industry including Wizards of the Coast, Paizo Publishing, and Legendary Games. He is currently the publisher at Darrin Drader Designs, acting as writer, editor, and almost everything else.

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  • Jennifer Leigh Estep

    Jennifer Estep is the New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author of more than 50 fantasy and science fiction books, who prowls the streets of her imagination in search of her next fantasy idea.

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  • Tehani Farr

    Tehani Farr is an award winning Mexican-British artist celebrated for powerful, female-driven visions of heroes, gods, and mythical beings. Her clients include Heavy Metal, Magic: The Gathering, Conan the Barbarian, Marvel, Assassin's Creed, and WoW. Farr draws inspiration from history, ancient mythology, film, music, and the natural world.

  • Bill Fawcett

    Bill Fawcett is a writer, editor, anthologist, and game designer. Fawcett has also written historical non-fiction books. He founded Mayfair Games and designs board and computer games. Bill Fawcett & Associates has packaged over 400 science fiction novels. His newest fiction is the Blood and Armor Mil SF novels.

  • Scott M Fischer

    Scott M Fischer is a fantasy art wizard, with over 200 Magic the Gathering cards to his credit. Other credits: Dungeons and Dragons, Witcher, Wheel of Time, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He was guest of honor at two Magic Cons and Gen Con last year, in 2025.

  • Stephan Franck

    Award nominated animator/writer/director/comic book creator, who supervised the animation of Marvel Studio's What If...? season 1, and is currently directing new episodes. He was a supervising animator on the The Iron Giant, and contributed story to Despicable Me. His graphic novel earned a Russ Manning Award.

  • Matt Frank

    Since 2011, Matt Frank has been known as "Kaiju King." He has worked with the Godzilla franchise for over 15 years, including works such as the Eisner-winning Godzilla 70th Anniversary Anthology. He has also worked on the Transformers, Ultraman, and Gamera franchises.

  • Chandra Free

    Chandra Free is the creator of The God Machine YA novel series and co-founder of Machina Corpse imprint. She has illustrated on John Carpenter's Tales For A Halloween Night, Fraggle Rock, and Four Seasons of Fear. She has also worked on TTRPG books 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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  • Charles E Gannon

    Dr. Charles E. Gannon's bestselling books have won the Dragon, ALA Choice, and Compton Crook Awards. Two of his series, Caine Riordan (hard SF) and Vortex of Worlds (epic fantasy), have multiple Nebula and Dragon Awards nominations, and he is the showrunner for Eric Flint's 1632 series.

  • Richard "Lord British" Garriott

    Richard “Lord British" Garriott is a founding father of both the video game industry and commercial spaceflight industry. He is the originator of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) genre through his pioneering Ultima series and is the first 2nd generation American astronaut.

  • Annie Stegg Gerard

    Annie Stegg Gerard is an oil painter based in Georgia, deeply inspired by the 18th-century Rococo masters. Their imaginative spirit have profoundly shaped her artistic approach. Gerard admires how these painters sought to transport viewers to fantastical realms, and she strives to evoke that same sense of wonder in her art.

  • Justin Gerard

    Inspired by nature and mythology, Justin Gerard has made a career out of painting imaginative creatures, dragons, monsters, and the heroes. His narrative-driven work includes classics like Beowulf, King Arthur, St. George, and The Hobbit, as well as the modern fantasy worlds of Magic the Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons.

  • Tommy Gofton

    Tommy Gofton is best known for the series Legacy of Worlds and The Gamers: Natural One, and designing Lynnvander's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dragon Ball Z, The World of Imaria, Cowboy Bebop, Dr. Who: Don't Blink, Evil Dead 2, Star Trek Alliance, Munchkin 5e, and Battletech: Aces.

  • Christopher Golden

    Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling author of many high-concept horror novels. He is the co-creator of two cult favorite comic book series, Baltimore and Joe Golem: Occult Detective. He is also the editor of anthologies and the co-host of the popular podcast Three Guys with Beards.

  • Bill Golliher

    Bill Golliher has been a writer and artist for Archie Comic Publications for over 30 years. Golliher has worked on scripting and illustrating quite a diverse set of titles for the company during his tenure. Golliher has also enjoyed doing cover design illustration for the company over the years.

  • Michael A. Gordon

    Michael Gordon is the creator of the Tiki Zombie comic series. He has contributed to various books including the anthologies Dragon Tales and Jukebox Thrillers. Gordon can also be heard saying “Howdy!” on the podcasts New Legend Lounge, Earth Station Who, BatChums, Three Grog Night, and The Dragon Con Report.

  • Jeff Granito

    Jeff Granito is a Southern California artist and designer infusing every creation with a splash of tiki, vintage aloha, and tropical storytelling. After 20+ years designing for major corporations, he now dreams up vibrant art for aloha shirts, accessories, home decor, collectible tiki mugs, and more for his own brand.

  • Keron Grant

    Keron Grant is a comic book illustrator known for his work on Iron Man, Spider-Man, Superman, and The Fantastic Four, among others. He has contributed designs and concepts to major motion pictures such as Black Panther, Eternals, Shang-Chi, Transformers, The Matrix series, GI Joe, and many blockbuster games like Infamous.

  • Kevin R. Grazier

    Kevin Grazier, Ph.D., is a planetary physicist, presently at the U.S. Military Academy, specializing in space weather. A veteran science advisor for film and television, he co-authored the Hollyweird Science book series, which examines the portrayal of science and scientists in popular media.

  • Kevin Grevioux

    Kevin Grevioux is a 20 year veteran of the film and comic book industries. As a director, screenwriter, actor, producer, and comic book creator, his name has been associated with projects such as Underworld, I, Frankenstein, King of Killers, Darkstorm, The Blue Marvel, New Warriors, Spider-Man, Face-Off, and Young Justice.

  • Andrew Lee Griffith

    Andrew Lee Griffith is a comic book and card artist (MtG) known for Transformers RID for IDW. Griffith drew GIJoe: ARAH and wrote and drew for Star Wars: Adventures, and properties such as Godzilla, Micronauts, and ROM. Griffith is currently co-creating his own series SIGNA and Power Rangers comics for Boom!

  • Clay Griffith

    Clay Griffith writes fantasy and comic books. With his wife, Susan, he is the co-author of the Vampire Empire series, the Crown & Key trilogy, and The Flash and Arrow team-up. Their licensed fiction includes Kolchak, The Phantom, the Thrones & Bones rpg universe, and comics include The Simpsons and The Tick.

  • Susan Griffith

    Susan Griffith writes fiction and comics. She co-authored the Vampire Empire series, the Crown & Key trilogy, and The Flash/Arrow team-up with Clay Griffith. They have written licensed fiction for Kolchak and The Phantom, comics for The Tick and The Simpsons, and contributed to the Throne & Bones RPG universe.

  • Luke Gygax

    Luke Gygax is an Ennie Award winning designer, founder of Gary Con®(garycon.com), Gygax Ink, and the son of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) creator, Gary Gygax. He has authored numerous RPG products and two novels since retiring from the Army. He resides in Southern California with his family.

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  • Chris Urbnpop Hamer

    Chris Hamer aka Urbnpop has been a professional artist for over 20 years working on comic books, trading cards, concert posters, and his own original art.

  • Amanda Hamon

    Amanda Hamon is a senior designer working on Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast. An award winning tabletop game designer and developer with more than a decade of experience, Hamon leads the creation of Fifth Edition books from conception through publication and beyond.

  • Robert E Hampson

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

  • Yaya Han

    Yaya Han is a cosplayer, designer, and author with 400+ costumes, two US Network TV shows, countless magazines, books, newspapers, and appearances under her belt. Han is the first cosplayer to bring branded cosplay-focused sewing and crafting products and a Yaya Han sewing machine to the mass retail market.

  • Chad Hardin

    Chad Hardin has worked with major comic publishers, including Marvel (Web of Spider-Man and Antivenom), DC Comics (Harley Quinn, Zatanna, Warlord, Wonder Woman, and Justice League Giant), and Boom Studios (Farscsape and Stan Lee's: The Traveler). Hardin makes his own creator owned books (Temerity, Hellbringers, The Hunters, and Death Watch).

  • A. J. Hartley

    A.J. Hartley is the bestselling author of 28 novels in various genres. Recent work includes Hideki Smith, Burning Shakespeare, Cold Bath Street, Steeplejack, and—with Tom DeLonge of Blink-182—Sekret Machines and Time Rider. He is Professor Shakespeare at UNC Charlotte, and hosts a J-rock YouTube channel. More: www.ajhartley.net

  • 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.

  • Thomas Jay Heintjes

    Tom Heintjes is the co-founder and publisher of the Eisner Award winning 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.

  • Leanna Renee Hieber

    Actress, ghost tour guide, and author, Leanna's Strangely Beautiful saga won numerous awards and her nonfiction, A Haunted History of Invisible Women was a Bram Stoker Award finalist. America's Most Gothic was an instant USA Today bestseller. She has been featured on Mysteries at the Museum and Beyond the Unknown.

  • Bill Holbrook

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

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  • Takumi Ito

    Takumi is a renowned Japanese artist who masterfully combines traditional sumi-e ink techniques with his own innovation, while retaining a traditional style.

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  • D.B. Jackson

    D.B. Jackson/David B. Coe is an award winning fantasy author and has edited several anthologies. As D.B. Jackson, he writes the Thieftaker Chronicles. As David B. Coe, he has recently published The Chalice War Celtic fantasy series. He has a PhD in US History from Stanford University.

  • Steve Jackson

    Steve Jackson lives in Atlanta. He has been designing games for 50 years and has no plan to stop. His creations include Munchkin, Illuminati, the GURPS and Fantasy Trip RPGs, Ogre, Car Wars, and Zombie Dice. He was a GoH at the Dublin Worldcon and is still walking on air.

  • Tim Jacobus

    Tim Jacobus, original illustrator for the iconic R.L. Stine Goosebumps book series, is responsible for the creation of more than 100 Goosebumps Classic Series, Series 2000, and special edition cover illustrations. Jacobus' art was instrumental in making Goosebumps the second largest-selling book series in publishing history.

  • John Jennings

    John Jennings is a professor, award winning author, and graphic novelist, known for The Parable of the Sower, The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art, and co-creating the superhero, Ghost Light. Jennings's latest publications include The Adventures of Lion Man and Parable of the Talents.

  • Les Johnson

    Les is a physicist, author, Chief Technologist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (retired) where he led multiple robotic space flight missions, and CEO of Infinite Frontiers Consulting. His books include Crisis at Proxima (Baen), Pluto (Tor), and Monster Hunter International – The Alien Files (forthcoming / Baen).

  • Sebastian A. Jones

    Sebastian Jones is the owner of Stranger Comics and the creator of the world of Asunda, a shared fantasy comic universe with an emphasis on representation that is coming soon to HBO, where Jones will write and produce. Jones' flagship character Niobe was honored with a foreword by Viola Davis.

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  • Hiroshi Kanatani

    Hiroshi Kanatani is a professional comic artist in Japan, an accomplished Kaiju comic artist. His lauded works have been released in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, and America. He is an official artist of Godzilla (TOHO), Ultraman (Tsuburaya), and Gamera (Kadokawa) with plenty more projects to come.

  • 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®.

  • Gini Koch

    Gini Koch writes the bestselling Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series formerly for DAW Books and now for Ginger Blue Publishing, and much more, in all lengths and genres, and under a variety of pen names, including G.J. Koch, Anita Ensal, Jemma Chase, A.E. Stanton, and J.C. Koch.

  • Mike Krome

    Mike Krome is an Australian artist whose work has been featured in magazines, computer games, film promotions, and comics. His illustrated covers can be seen featured by the likes of Dynamite, Coffin Comics, Zenescope Entertainment, Image, Aspen Comics, Valiant Entertainment, and BOOM!

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  • Cheralyn Lambeth

    Cheralyn "Cher" Lambeth is a professional costume, prop, and puppet builder, whose work includes films (The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Hunger Games), television (Dinosaurs!, Homeland), live properties (Star Trek: The Experience, Avenue Q), video games (Fortnite: Battle Royale), and books (Haunted Theaters of the Carolinas, Introduction to Puppetry Arts).

  • Eloy Lasanta

    Eloy Lasanta is an RPG creator (i.e. Part-Time Gods 2E, Pip System). He has also contributed to other TTRPGs like the Firefly RPG, Into the Motherlands, and video games like Subterrain: Mines of Titan and Dream Tactics. He has undoubtedly left his mark on the tabletop and video game industry.

  • Leo Leibelman

    Leo Leibelman has worked as a comic artist for several companies and has worked in the film/tv industry on many movies.

  • Leighann Lord

    Leighann Lord is a stand-up comedian who has performed at Dragon Con. She is the author of Dict Jokes and Real Women Do it Standing Up. Lord has also been a co-host on StarTalkRadio, with Neil de Grasse Tyson. She has been seen on Comedy Central, HBO, and Showtime.

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  • Erin Macdonald

    Erin Macdonald is an award winning writer, science communicator, producer, and science advisor. She is known for her advising work on Star Trek and has played her own character across multiple iterations of the franchise. As a science communicator she has also appeared on NPR, BBC, CBS, and StarTalk Live.

  • Mari Mancusi

    Mari Mancusi is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over 40 sci-fi/fantasy books for kids, teens, and adults, including many Disney tie-in books.

  • 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. As Morgan Brice, she writes urban fantasy MM paranormal romance.

  • 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.

  • Travis Scott Merrill

    Travis Scott Merrill currently works as a specialty costumer and break-down artist on some of the largest productions in the world. A proud member of IATSE local 479, you can see his art in professional theater, television, and film, with upcoming projects in the DC Universe.

  • 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 latest novel tying into the Tim Burton Batman movies, Batman: Revolution, is now available from from Random House Worlds.

  • Andrea Lorenzo Molinari

    Andrea Lorenzo Molinari is co-writer of The Shepherd series, with Caliber Comics, then Scout Comics. From 2020-25, Molinari was editorial director for Scout. Previously, he was submissions editor for Caliber Comics and staff editor for Amigo Comics. He has edited books published by Action Lab, Sumerian, Magma Comix, Antarctic, etc.

  • Monkey Minion

    Dane Ault is the artist behind Monkey Minion Press, an art company he runs with his wife and business partner, Ashlie Hammond. Monkey Minion Press has been publishing art books, kid's books, and all manner of POPaganda, science, and space-related art prints and posters for over a decade.

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  • Bobby Edward Nash

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

  • Larry Niven

    Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Larry Niven is a legend in the field of science fiction. Among his many stories and novels are Ringworld and The Magic Goes Away. He co-authored such bestsellers as The Mote in God's Eye, Lucifer's Hammer, Footfall, and the Bowl of Heaven novels.

  • 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 200+ stories. Nye teaches writing seminars and is coordinating judge for the Writers of the Future Contest.

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  • Justin JUSSCOPE Orr

    Justin Orr is an illustrator and animator from Northern California. He has worked in numerous artistic fields including animation and advertising. He has worked with companies such as Nickelodeon and Wild Brain and spent time in Japan as a concept artist.

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  • Jamie Pearce

    Jamie Pearce PhD has been involved in the paranormal for 30+ years. She is the founder of Historic Haunts Investigations and has investigated in 26 states and eight countries, has published seven books in her Historic Haunts book series, and is the host of her podcast, Speaking of the Paranormal.

  • Harrison Giles Pink

    Harrison Pink has had a varied career in the video games industry, working on groundbreaking narrative titles such as Telltale's The Walking Dead and Tales from the Borderlands alongside designing and writing for genre-defining franchises such as Diablo IV and MYST.

  • Van Allen Plexico

    Van Allen Plexico is a grand master of pulp literature. He is best known for the Sentinels illustrated superhero novels and comics, 1960s crime novels, and military SF such as Alpha/Omega. His White Rocket Entertainment podcasts cover James Bond, Babylon 5, The Avengers, and more.

  • Robert Pope

    Cartoonist/animator Robert Pope currently draws the Peanuts gang for Simon and Schuster. He has drawn Scooby-Doo, Looney Tunes, Batman, Powerpuff Girls, and more for DC, IDW, as well as animating for CN classics Space Ghost Coast to Coast, ATHF, ANIMANIACS, The Brak Show, and others!

  • Ashley Poston

    Ashley Poston is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Dead Romantics, The Seven Year Slip, A Novel Love Story, and Sounds Like Love.

  • Dominique Provost-Chalkley

    Dominique Provost-Chalkley is an activist, philanthropist, musician, dancer, and actor, best known for their role as Waverly Earp on the Wynonna Earp. Other credits include 12 Monkeys, Murdoch Mysteries, and Avengers: Age of Ultron. Provost-Chalkley wrote, directed, and scored their first short film, MAGIC.

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  • Benjamin Radford

    Benjamin Radford, MPH, M.Ed., is a folklorist with Skeptical Inquirer magazine and has written on urban legends, mysterious phenomena, and critical thinking. He is author of over 20 books and has won awards for his books, films, and podcasts.

  • Trina L. Ray

    Trina Ray retired from NASA/JPL after 36 years working various outer planet missions. Started on Voyager (Neptune encounter), decades on Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn (specializing in Titan), and finished out working development through launch of the Europa Clipper Mission.

  • 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.

  • Naomi "Nao" Romero

    Naomi Romero is a character designer for animation and illustrator for children's literature. They have worked for DreamWorks, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, Sesame Workshop, Illumination Studios, Hasbro, Spin Master, and more. Romero is the current artist for the new baby dragon plush for Dragon Con.

  • Tim Rozon

    Tim Rozon's first major role was playing heartthrob Tommy Quincy on the teen drama series Instant Star. Recent series leads include two seasons playing Mutt Schitt on Schitt's Creek, charismatic gambler Doc Holliday in Wynonna Earp, and Luke Roman, a real estate agent specializing in haunted homes, on SurrealEstate.

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  • Steve Saffel

    At Marvel, Random House, Perseus Books, and Titan Books, Steve Saffel worked with N.K. Jemisin, Drew Struzan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Stan Lee, Douglas Adams, and more. He has developed projects for Alien, Mass Effect, Marvel and DC, Conan, Star Wars, and others. He now helps independent authors develop their story-driven concepts.

  • Varun Saranga

    Varun Saranga appeared in How to Be Indie, Schitt's Creek, Nurses, Endlings, and had regular roles on Burden of Truth, Carter, Total Drama Island: Reboot, and the People's Choice Award winning Wynonna Earp. Saranga will next appear in the horror comedy Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.

  • Gregg Schigiel

    Gregg Schigiel is the creator, author, and illustrator of the Zooperhero Universe chapter book series and Pix graphic novels. He has done character design for SpongeBob SquarePants and The Patrick Show, was a regular contributor to SpongeBob Comics, and worked as a penciller, writer, and assistant editor for Marvel Comics.

  • Brian Shearer

    Brian is known for his work on Transformers, G.I. Joe, and Doctor Who. He also writes and illustrates his creator-owned graphic novels, Gunship Thunderpunch and William the Last. In addition to his creative work, Shearer is a black belt in Krav Maga and teaches MMA and self-defense.

  • Cory Smith

    Cory Smith is an American comic artist and illustrator who has worked on some of the industry's biggest titles, such as IDW'S TMNT, Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Conan the Barbarian, Star Wars, Spider-man, Fantastic Four, and Guardians of the Galaxy.

  • Anne Sowards

    Anne Sowards is an executive editor at Penguin Random House, where she primarily acquires and edits fantasy and speculative fiction for the Ace and Berkley imprints. The talented authors she works with include New York Times bestsellers Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, Kim Harrison, Louis Sachar, and K. X. Song.

  • Sozomaika

    SOZOMAIKA is a self-taught illustrator, concept artist, and creative director, renowned for her integration of fashion illustration within character art. Her work is distinguished by a strong influence from noir and grindhouse movies, and Eastern design aesthetics. She has collaborated with DC Comics, Wired, Image Comics, and Riot Games.

  • T. Alexander Stangroom

    T. Alexander Stangroom is chief operations officer of the ENNIE award winning TTRPG publisher Kobold Press. Stangroom is a TTRPG designer whose credits include titles by Modiphius and Wizards of the Coast, as well as a professional GM with over two decades of experience.

  • Kim Steadman

    Kim Steadman is a systems engineer working in the space industry with over 27 years of experience in spacecraft operations. Currently she is a surface mission planner for the Dragonfly Mission to Titan. She has also worked on Opportunity, Curiosity, Cassini, and Perseverance.

  • 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.

  • Yale Stewart

    Yale Stewart is an award winning independent cartoonist best known for his webcomic JL8, as well as work for publishers like Marvel, Image, Dynamite, Boom!, and more. He resides in St. Louis, MO, with his wife and pets, working on JL8, and developing his new series Forward, The Horizon.

  • Stephen Michael Stirling

    S.M. Stirling was born in France in 1953, and has lived in Europe, Canada, Africa, and the US. He published his first novel Snowbrother in 1984. Recent books are To Turn the Tide (summer 2024), Baen Books, The Winds of Fate (summer 2025), and The Hammer of Destiny (summer 2026).

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  • Eric Talbot

    Eric Talbot is a comic book writer and artist known for his work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series under Mirage Studios. He co-created the graphic novel The Melting Pot along with Kevin Eastman and Simon Bisley, which was used as the basis for the film Heavy Metal 2000.

  • The Friggatriskaidekaphobia Treatment Nurese

    Downey enjoys acting and costuming. She is the organizer of the yearly Skeptic Parade Entry at Dragon Con. She created a character known as “The Friggatriskaidekaphobia Treatment Nurse” to teach critical thinking skills every Friday-the-Thirteenth.

  • Lauren Thoman

    Lauren Thoman is the author of the speculative mysteries I'll Stop the World and You Shouldn't Be Here. She lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and two children.

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  • David F Walker

    David F. Walker is an award winning comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator, known for his work in comics, including Big Jim and the White Boy, The Black Panther Party, Bitter Root, Naomi, Luke Cage, Occupy Avengers, Power Man and Iron Fist, Nighthawk, Fury, Deadpool, Cyborg, and Young Justice.

  • 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.

  • Toni Weisskopf

    Toni Weisskopf has been the publisher of Baen Books since 2006. Weisskopf has been a guest speaker at many writers workshops and science fiction conventions across the country. She is also interested in space science and serves on the Board of Advisors of the Interstellar Research Group.

  • 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.

  • Marcusthevisual Williams

    Stationed in Atlanta Ga, he spends most of his time toiling away late nights on everything from illustrating comic art, fan art, children's books, to random character commissions. He is excited about the direction of his comic properties, and looks forward to creating more forms of visual entertainment and stories.

  • Skip Williams

    Skip Williams hails from Lake Geneva, also the birthplace of the D&D game. In a 40 year career in tabletop gaming, Williams has accumulated many credits, including Gen Con, Dragon magazine, the RPGA Network, Polyhedron newsine, and four versions of the D&D game, the Planescape, Greyhawk, Ravenloft, and Dragonlance worlds.

  • Robert Wilson

    Robert Wilson IV is a comic artist and illustrator living in Dallas, TX. He is the co-creator and artist of Heartthrob at Oni Press with writer Christopher Sebela and colorist Nick Filardi. He also co-created Knuckleheads at IDW/Monkeybrain with Brian Winkeler and Like A Virus with Ken Lowery.

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  • Kelly Yates

    Kelly Yates is an illustrator best known for his work on Doctor Who comics. His artwork also inspired the Doctor Who, My Hero Academia, Junji Ito, and Attack on Titan Kawaii TITANS toy lines.

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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.

  • Timothy Zahn

    Dragon Con's 2026 Literature Guest of Honor Timothy Zahn is the author of 16 Star Wars novels, the Cobra, Quadrail, Sibyl's War, and Dragonback series, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil, The Icarus Twin, The Icarus Job, and A Call to Insurrection (with David Weber and Thomas Pope).

Cancellations

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

  • Elias Chatzoudis
  • Ryan A Consell
  • Captain Tomas Quin
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