Guest List At BALTIMORE COMIC-CON Continues To Grow

Adams, Cowan, Lee, McNeil, Reis, and Storrie Join Baltimore Comic-Con 2025

from the official Baltimore Comic Con press release . . . . . BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - September 22, 2025 - Make your way to the 2025 Baltimore Comic-Con this October 17-19 at the Inner Harbor's Baltimore Convention Center. The Baltimore Comic-Con announces comics creators Joel Adams, Denys Cowan, Jae Lee, Carla Speed McNeil, Rod Reis, and Paul D. Storrie as guests of our 2025 event. You can get tickets for the show online now!

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Joel Adams is the eldest son of famed comic book legend Neal Adams. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York, in 1988, and moved to Los Angeles to work at Neal’s west coast offices of Continuity Studios. While at Continuity, he dabbled in comic books, helping out on Continuity titles such as Ms. Mystic and Bucky O’Hare. Outside of Continuity, he did covers for Alpha Productions' Blood Thirst and penciled for Penthouse Comix’ Young Captain Adventure. In 1996, Joel went to Marvel Animation to do all the character design for The Hulk animated series. From there, he went to FOX/Film Roman to design the Emmy Award-winning King of the Hill, then to FOX Family to design Nascar Racers. While working for animation companies, Joel was picked up for all of the licensing art for these shows and others by the licensing companies handling them. Joel’s art has appeared on products from The Hulk, Nascar Racers, King of the Hill, Captain Scarlet, The Mask (animation), Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, Power Rangers: Light Speed Rescue, Power Rangers: Wild Force, Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire, and more.

Denys Cowan is an accomplished and celebrated comic and animation creator and illustrator. Founder of Milestone Media, which sold over 10 million copies of groundbreaking comic books, Cowan has numerous credits to his name, including: Black Racer, Deathstroke, Black Lightning & Hong Kong Phooey, Batman: Lovers & Madmen, Blind Justice, Black Panther: Flags of Our Fathers, The Question, Hardware, and Static. Static became one of the most beloved characters in the Milestone Universe, spawning a hugely successful animated series, Static Shock. During its run, the series was the only animated show not produced by Nickelodeon to dominate ratings. Denys directed and produced the series, which was nominated for an Emmy. As Senior Vice President of Animation at BET, Cowan was responsible for the creation, development, and production of animated programming for the network. This included the development and production of the Black Pantheranimated series. Prior to his time at BET, Denys was instrumental in developing and producing the first season of the prime time animated series, The Boondocks. Serving as Senior Vice President of Motown Animation and Filmworks, he created and developed a number of shows with Fox, ABC, Disney, and Nickelodeon. Cowan also co-created the character of Henri Ducard, as played by Liam Neeson in Batman Begins.

Jae Lee is a Korean-American comic book artist, known for his dark style. In 1990, he became one of the youngest artists ever to work for a major publisher. He is an Eisner Award-winner for his work on Marvel's The Inhumans. His art can also be seen in Stephen King's Dark Tower and Batman/Superman. Jae is also the co-creator of The Sentry for Marvel Comics. Official Website: jaeleeart.com Instagram: @jaeleeart Pre-show commission orders may be placed through: JAELEE@aol.com

Carla Speed McNeil is the author and artist of Finder. She started working in comics in 1997 and hasn't stopped since. She has also worked on a variety of projects like providing art for Queen & Country: Operation: Stormfront from Oni Press, adapted and drew Pendragon: The Merchant of Death (based on the prose book by D. J. MacHale) for Simon & Schuster, and drawn fan-favorite Frank Ironwine for Apparat/Avatar, as well as two pages of Transmetropolitan for DC/Vertigo, both by Warren Ellis. Bad Houses was released in 2013 by Dark Horse Comics, after which she began a long series of collaborations with writer Alex De Campi, including Ashes, My Little Pony (IDW), and No Mercy (Image) beginning April 2015. Other smaller projects have included drawing Legends of Red Sonja (Dynamite), the short story "Here. In My Head" (with writer Elizabeth Genco) for Comic Book Tattoo from Image, and shorts in notable anthologies such as The Sleep of Reason and Cautionary Fairy Tales of Africa. She has won an Eisner Award, Ignatz Awards, the Kim Yale New Talent Award from Friends Of Lulu, the L.A. Times Book Prize for graphic novel in 2012, and three Stumptown Comic Arts Awards. Finder, the science fiction series Carla Speed McNeil started in 1996, was "born" in Maryland, and so were her two kids and three cats. She and her husband were born and raised in Louisiana, but they've lived here longer than they ever lived there, which is a funny thought sometimes. She's won an Eisner, several Ignatzes, and the LA Times Book Prize. She teaches comics at MICA in Baltimore, and her COVID hobb-session was making teeny tiny doors.

A colorist since the late 90s for DC Comics titles such as Aquaman and Justice League, Rod Reis started working as a full artist doing interiors in 2015, launching two creator-owned comics at Image, C.O.W.L. and Hadrian’s Wall. Soon after, he did art for several Marvel projects such as Doctor Strange, Winter Soldier, and New Mutants.

Paul D. Storrie has been writing comics since the late '90s, starting with Robyn of Sherwood, about the daughter of Robin and Marian, at Caliber Comics. Since then, he has worked for Moonstone Books, DC Comics, Marvel, IDW Publishing, Lerner Books, and more. His most recent publications are the Eisner-nominated Stanley's Ghost and the follow up, Stanley & The Forgotten Forest. He's perhaps best known for his DC Animated Universe mini-series Gotham Girls, which was reprinted in 2020 as Harley Quinn & the Gotham Girls.

"It is such great fun to bring these amazing talents to the world," said Marc Nathan, show promoter for the Baltimore Comic-Con. "We haven't seen some of these folks in a while, and others are show regulars. They each bring their own unique spin on what is so great about comics, and we know attendees can't wait to see them this year in Baltimore!"

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