BALTIMORE COMIC CON September 25-27: GUEST UPDATE

Baltimore Comic-Con 2026 Welcomes Champagne, Green, Hall, Noto, Pham, and Richardson

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - April 13, 2026 - The Baltimore Comic-Con will be held on September 25-27, 2026 at the Inner Harbor's Baltimore Convention Center. The Baltimore Comic-Con is thrilled to welcome Keith Champagne, Randy Green, Bob Hall, Phil Noto, Khoi Pham, and Afua Richardson as guests of our 2026 event! You can purchase your tickets online today!

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Keith Champagne is a comic book writer and creator best known for several decades of work with DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and many more publishers. From Stranger Things to Superman to Uncanny X-Men, he's provided art and/or stories for countless characters and projects.

After graduating with a BFA in Painting, Randy Green worked for several advertising agencies as an artist/art director and did some comic book work on the side. During this time, he worked mostly for Dark Horse and Image. Eventually, Randy was able to get enough steady work to pursue comic book art full-time, working for Marvel, DC Comics, and others as well. Top Cow's Witchblade was his first long run as an artist on a title and opened the doors to many other opportunities, including Tomb Raider and a short-run creator-owned title, Dollz, which he hopes to do more with in the future. Afterwards, he continued on some more work at Marvel on Emma Frost and New X-Men Academy X, always managing to squeeze in a project or cover for some of the comic companies here and there. In recent years, Randy has been doing most of his work behind the scenes for Disney Parks, and has had several books come out through Dark Horse and Aspen Comics, as well as several indie creators, and is currently working on a title, Stopwatch, written by Beau Smith coming soon from Clover Press. Randy has been working comics full-time for nearly two decades now, and enjoys life in the country with his family, wife Amy, and children Haley and Max.

Bob Hall had a long association with Marvel Comics, where at one time or another he drew most of the major books and characters such as The Champions, Spider-Man, Dr. Doom, Conan, Thor, The Fantastic Four, The Submariner, Captain America, PSI Force, The Avengers, and The New Mutants. He was the artist for the West Coast Avengers mini-series and was the primary artist on the original Squadron Supreme. He drew movie adaptations of Willow, Dark Man, and the notorious first Captain America movie, as well as pencils and inks for the graphic novel, Emperor Doom. Bob was an editor at Marvel in 1979. For Valiant, he wrote and penciled the monthly series Shadowman, wrote Timewalker, and then created Armed and Dangerous, a black and white "comicbook-noir" series. For DC, he wrote and drew the Batman graphic novel projects Batman DOA, I Joker, and It's Jokertime. Recently, he has been creating educational comics that have tackled measles, mosquitoes, COVID-19, and vaccine hesitancy. Bob is a member of the National Cartoonists Society, Actors Equity Association, and the Society for Directors and Choreographers. His work can be seen at www.bobhall.com. Commissions and original art are available through www.catskillcomics.com. He can be messaged on Facebook.

Phil Noto is a comic book artist, painter, and illustrator best known for his work on Marvel Comics’ Black Widows series and numerous Star Wars projects. He attended Ringling College of Art and Design. After college, he began a career in animation at Walt Disney Feature Animation where he worked on such films as Lion King, Pocahontas, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan, and Lilo and Stitch. In 2001, Phil started his comic career as the cover artist for DC Comics' Birds of Prey. Some of his projects over the past 20 years are Danger Girl, Jonah Hex, Avengers, X-23, Uncanny X-Force, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Infinite Horizon, Poe Dameron, Daredevil, Cable, and X-Men. Besides doing comic art, Phil has illustrated middle grade novels for Lucasfilm Publishing and done work for Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, and the Criterion Collection. He also does retro fine-art paintings with numerous shows at Stranger Factory Gallery in Albuquerque, NM and, most recently, Outre Gallery in Fitzroy.

Khoi Pham is an artist and mentor. His artworks include DC’s Teen Titans, Marvel’s Mighty Avengers, X-Men Legacy, Scarlet Spider, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Chaos War, Incredible Hercules, Gambit, Mighty Thor, and X-Factor, and Top Cow’s Cyberforce. He has done numerous cover illustrations for various publications. Khoi was an attorney and venture capitalist prior to switching to art and mentoring. He has a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Saint Joseph’s University.

Afua Richardson (pronounced "ah-FOO-wah") is an award-winning American comic book illustrator best known for her work on Marvel's Black Panther: World of Wakanda. Some of her other works include The Wild Storm, Attack on Titan, X-Men '92, Captain Marvel, and All-Star Batman to name a few. Afua is also a musician, voice actor, activist, and mentor. As a recipient of the Nina Simone award, she is aptly called a Jane of All trades.

"We're so happy to have these folks joining us in 2026," said Marc Nathan, show promoter for the Baltimore Comic-Con. "With some truly spectacular works under their belt, and being nice people on top of that, we are privileged to welcome to this year's convention."

Tickets that are now on sale include: Weekend Friday only Saturday only Sunday only VIP Creator Fan Packages As always, children 10 and under are free with a paid adult admission!

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