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Planet Comicon, Kansas City Celebrity List


Jason Aaron

Writer of Star Wars, Thor, and Southern Bastards to appear at Planet Comicon Kansas City 2017 Comic book writer Jason Aaron, known for his work ...

Joel Adams

Television character designer Joel Adams, the eldest son of Neal Adams, graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and after dabbling...

Neal Adams

Legendary comic book artist Neal Adams had legendary “runs” on Batman, X-Men, Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Deadman. Adams rescued Batman from t...

Bill Amend

Award-winning creator of Foxtrot Bill Amend is a Kansas City area cartoonist, best known for his comic strip FoxTrot. He attended high school in...

Sarah Andersen

Sarah's Scribbles is a webcomic by Sarah Andersen since 2011. Andersen initially published the webcomic on Tumblr, but has since released it on var...

Tara Avery (Prism Comics)

Comic creator Tara Madison Avery Tara Madison Avery published her first professional comics in 1990 in the now-defunct Lawrence, Kansas, music n...

Carole Barrowman

Author of Hollow Earth and Arrow: The Dark Archer In collaboration with her brother, Arrow and Torchwood star John Barrowman, Carole E. Barrowma...

Reilly Brown

Comic book artist, writer for Marvel and DC New Jersey native Reilly Brown in a fan-favorite comic book artist and writer for Marvel and DC Comi...

Ryan Browne

Professional comic book artist Ryan Browne is a professional comic book creator responsible for co-creating Curse Words, full-creating God Hates...

Frank Brunner

Legendary artist of Dr. Strange, Elric, Creepy, Red Sonja, Man-Thing, Conan, and Howard the Duck Starting as a writer-artist on Web of Horror, C...

Cullen Bunn

Writer for both creator-owned and mainstream superhero comics Cullen Bunn has gained acclaim as a writer for both creator-owned and mainstream s...

Rick Burchett

Artist of Batman Adventures and Lady Sabre Rick Burchett draws the popular webcomic Lady Sabre & The Pirates of the Ineffable Aether, which is w...

Buzz

Comic book artist for JSA, Atomika, Vampirella, Shi and more A very popular and sought-after commission artist among the art collectors and the ...

Bob Camp

Co-creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show Bob Camp’s work on the groundbreaking animated series The Ren & Stimpy Show was nominated for two Emmys, a C...

Howard Chaykin

American comic book writer and artist Howard Chaykin’s influences include the comic book artist Gil Kane and the mid-20th century book illustrat...

Chris Claremont

Chris Claremont is a British-born American comic book writer and novelist, known for his 1975–1991 stint on Uncanny X-Men, far longer than that of ...

Amanda Conner

CW Cooke

Writer of Solitary, Clock Puncher, and Barrens CW Cooke is a comic book writer living in the Kansas City area who has been working in comics sin...

Shannon Eric Denton

Comics and storyboard artist, producer of Alan Tudyk’s Con Man Shannon Eric Denton is a veteran storyteller and artist with credits at Cartoon Net...

Dan DiDio

Co-publisher of DC Comics.

Colleen Doran

Writer/artist and cartoonist, Colleen Doran has illustrated hundreds of comics, graphic novels, books and magazines, including the autobiographical...

Kevin Eastman

Co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, publisher of Heavy Metal Born in Portland, Maine, in 1962 Kevin Eastman began drawing at a very youn...

Ale Garza

Comic creator Ale Garza began working in comics at 19 for Wildstorm Studios, where he created titles like Ninja Boy and Skye Runner. He’s also h...

Basil Gogos

Legendary artist Basil Gogos has a legendary fan following that just continues to keep growing and growing, as chronicled in the bestselling Van...

Alex Grecian

New York Times bestselling author Alex Grecian is the writer of Image Comics’ Rasputin and Proof and the New York Times bestselling author of th...

Chris Grine

Creator of Chickenhare and Wicked Crispy Chris Grine is the creator of Chickenhare, which was published as an original graphic novel by Dark Hor...

Chad Hardin

Harley Quinn Artist Chad Hardin grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada. He moved to Cedar City, Utah, where he attended Southern Utah University, and late...

Jeremy Haun

Comics creator known for The Beauty, Constantine, and Bad Karma Jeremy Haun is the co-writer and artist of Image Comics’ The Beauty. Jeremy H...

Phil Hester

Artist of Green Arrow and The Flash: Season Zero Phil Hester has been writing and drawing comics for nearly three decades, beginning while still...

Dennis Hopeless

Writer of Spider-Woman, All-New X-Men, and WWE: Then. Now. Forever. Dennis Hopeless’ first published work was on GearHead in 2007 with Arcana Co...

Greg Horn

Marvel Comics cover illustrator Greg Horn arrived at Marvel Comics in 1999 sporting a sensational new form of computer art that had never been s...

Julia Kaye

Julia Kaye is an American artist and illustrator. Kaye currently works on the upcoming Disney Television Animation show Country Club, set to be rel...

Matt Kindt

Writer of Divinity III: Stalinverse, Dept. H, and Ninjak From the creator’s website: “Matt Kindt is the New York Times Best-Selling writer and a...

Tony Kordos

Professional inker Tony Kordos is a professional inker best known for his work on Batman and Robin Eternal and Justice League: Darkseid War Spec...

Greg Land

Professional illustrator Greg Land has been a professional illustrator for 32 years – the past 20 of them as a comic book artist. He is a nat...

Megan Levens

Comic book artist for Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 10 Megan Levens is known not just for the 10th season comic book of Buffy the Vampire Sla...

Joeseph Michael Linsner

Ant Lucia

Artist Very few alternate visions of established characters have captured the imaginations of fandom like the DC Bombshells. When Ant Lucia u...

Darryl McDaniels

Hip-hop pioneer, comic book creator Darryl “DMC” McDaniels is a legendary musician who, for more than 30 years, has been an undeniable influence...

Kevin Mellon

Comics creator and Archer storyboard artist Kevin Mellon’s work includes Gearhead (Arcana Studio) and Lovestruck (Image Comics) with Dennis Hope...

B. Clay Moore

Writer of Hawaiian Dick and Savage B. Clay Moore has written comics for virtually every major publisher, including DC, Marvel, Image, Valiant, T...

Jeffrey Moy

Comic artist Born and raised in the Chicagoland area on a healthy diet of comics and science-fiction, it only seemed right Jeffrey Moy would str...

Philip Moy

Inker and artist Philip Moy has worked as a professional comics artist starting with inking work in 1992 at Comico. He has worked as inker an...

Jai Nitz

Co-creator of Suicide Squad’s El Diablo, writer of Dream Thief Comic book writer, Jai Nitz is the co-creator of El Diablo, featured in the recen...

Jimmy Palmiotti

Award-winning writer of Painkiller Jane, Harley Quinn, and Starfire Jimmy Palmiotti has a wide range of experience and background in advertisin...

Ande Parks

Acclaimed Comics Creator Ande Parks has inked comics for every major American publisher. He’s best known for his run on Green Arrow, with freque...

Stephan Pastis

Stephan Pastis is an American cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. He has begun writing children's chapter books, com...

Seth Peck

Writer of Fear Itself: Wolverine, X-Men, and Bad Karma Volume One Seth Peck’s first comics work was on The Expatriate in 2005 for Image continu...

Don Rosa

Eisner and Harvey Award Winning Cartoonist of Uncle Scrooge Don Rosa, one of the world’s most acclaimed cartoonists, is scheduled to appear at P...

Steven Sanders

Artist of S.W.O.R.D.,Wolverine & the X-Men, and Deadpool Steven Sanders is an artist whose comic work includes Throwaways, Symbiosis, Wolverine ...

Rob Schamberger

A Kansas City born and bred artist with a lifelong love of comic books, illustration, street artists, quality crime dramas, and other hipster thing...

Dan Scott

Dan Scott is a freelance illustrator working out of Kansas City The majority of Dan Scott’s work is full color illustrations but does include co...

Maria Scrivan

Maria Scrivan is a syndicated cartoonist. Her comic “Half Full” appears on GoComics and in newspapers daily, across the US including the LA Times.

Greg Smallwood

Comics artist, co-creator of Dream Theif, currently working on Marvel Comics Moon Knight

Todd Aaron Smith

Animator, storyboard artist, sketch card artist Todd Aaron Smith has worked as a professional animator and storyboard artist for projects like F...

J. David Spurlock

Award-winning author, historian, educator, advocate for artists’ rights, documentary filmmaker J. David Spurlock is an award-winning author, his...

Rick Stasi

Artist, writer, instructor Rick Stasi is an artist, writer, instructor, performer and producer. He’s worked with DC, Marvel, Disney, Warner Bros...

Jim Steranko

Legendary comics creator Jim Steranko is the Twitter sensation and famous Agents of SHIELD comics creator, whose articles for The Hollywood Repo...

Jim Steranko

Legendary comics creator Jim Steranko is the Twitter sensation and famous Agents of SHIELD comics creator, whose articles for The Hollywood Repo...

Kyle Strahm

Artist and co-creator of Spread from Image Comics Kyle Strahm is a Kansas City-based comic book artist. His new book, Spread, became available f...

The Frazetta Girls

Family of legend Frank Frazetta Frank Frazetta, the greatest heroic fantasy painter of all time, not only produced beautiful art, but also beaut...

Frank Tieri

Award-winning writer and creator working in comics, videogames, animation and television Although probably best known to comic book readers for ...

Frank Tieri

Award-winning writer and creator working in comics, videogames, animation and television Although probably best known to comic book readers for ...

Wallace Wood Estate

For the legendary cartoonist Since the passing of the legendary cartoonist, illustrator, author, musician and graphic novelist Wallace “Wally” w...

Freddie E. Williams II

Comic book writer and artist Freddie E. Williams II is best known for his work on DC Comics titles like Robin and also with Marvel’s Legendary S...

Sara Zimmerman

Unearthed Comics: Unearthing Science" is a special compilation of Unearthed Comics' science and science-related comics, celebrating the scientist i...