BCC 2020 Live Announces 1st Panels with Chaykin, Simonson, Cowan, Sienkiewicz, Haspiel, Ennis, and Gibbons!

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – September 28, 2020 – Join us for the 1st annual Baltimore Comic-Con Live this October 23-25, 2020! This will serve as the first of many announcements about our featured programming for our 2020 event.

Howard Chaykin
Denys Cowan
Bill Sienkiewicz
Walt Simonson
Dean Haspiel

 

Comics Time Machine: 1985

From American Flagg! to Hey Kids! Comics!. The Mighty Thor to Ragnarok. The New Mutants the comic book series to The New Mutants the movie. The Vigilante to Milestone. Grab a front-row seat to a historical and hysterical comix clatch 35 years in the making between legendary upstarts Howard Chaykin, Denys Cowan, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Walter Simonson — moderated by their former 17-year-old assistant, award-winning cartoonist and creator of The Red Hook, Dean Haspiel.

Garth Ennis

 

Garth Ennis Spotlight 

Joe Ryband interviews Garth Ennis about many of his triumphant stories. The Boys, Punisher, Nick Fury, War Stories, and more.

Dave Gibbons

 

Dave Gibbons Spotlight

An intimate look at award-winning writer/artist Dave Gibbons‘ career. From his 2000AD work on Rogue Trooper and DC work on Superman and Green Lantern to his Marvel runs on Captain America, and his creation The Originals for Vertigo, plus co-creations with Mark Millar (The Secret Service), Frank Miller (Give Me Liberty) and, of course, his iconic work co-creating Watchmen with Alan Moore.

“This is going to be very different this year, obviously,” said Marc Nathan, show promoter for the Baltimore Comic-Con. “We are getting some REALLY exciting programming together. This first announcement is just skimming the surface of some amazing talents in the industry talking about some amazing topics. This is free to everyone, and we want our fans, guests, retailers, and exhibitors to have an amazing weekend, so mark your calendars for October 23rd through the 25th and keep your eyes on baltimorecomicconlive.com for details as they emerge!”

2021 Guests

 

When we return to our live event on October 22-24, 2021, in addition to on-site CGC grading, next year’s confirmed guests for the show include: Marty Baumann (Disney/Pixar), John Beatty (Secret Wars), Brett Breeding (Superman), Howard Chaykin (Hey Kids! Comics!), Cliff Chiang (Paper Girls), Frank Cho (Harley Quinn), Becky Cloonan (Dark Agnes), Steve Conley (The Middle Age), Katie Cook (Nothing Special), Kristina Deak-Linsner (Vampirella: Roses for the Dead), Garth Ennis (The Boys, Friday and Saturday only), Mitch Gerads (Mr. Miracle), Joe Giella (Green Lantern), Gene Ha (Mae), Dean Haspiel (The Red Hook), Greg Hildebrandt (Wolverine), Jamal Igle (Wrong Earth), Tom King (Batman), Joseph Michael Linsner (Red Sonja), Bob McLeod (New Mutants), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), Frank Miller (Dark Knight III: The Master Race, Saturday only), Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise), Richard Pace (Second Coming), Tom Palmer (Hawkman), James Pascoe (Azrael), Andrew Pepoy (Simone & Ajax), David Petersen (Mouse Guard), Brandon Peterson (Sinestro: Year of the Villain), Tom Raney (Guardians of the Galaxy), Afua Richardson (Omni), Louise Simonson (Power Pack), Walter Simonson (Ragnarok: The Breaking of Helheim), John K. Snyder III (Killers), Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother), Robert Venditti (Hawkman), Mark Waid (Dr. Strange), Gene Luen Yang (Superman Smashes the Klan), and Thom Zahler (Love and Capes).

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