Comic-Con International: San Diego returns to the San Diego Convention Center, beginning with Preview Night on Wednesday, July 19th, and running Thursday, July 19th through Sunday, July 22nd.

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Panels of interest

Marvel Games Panel (Thurs)
Marvel Comics: Spider-Man (Fri)
Sony Pictures Panel (Fri)
Marvel Comics: Next Big Thing (Sat)
Marvel Comics: Meet the Editor-in-Chief (Sat)
Marvel Animation Presents (Sun)

Head here to the official site for the full list of panels and guests

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Special Guests

Veronica Fish

Artist, Archie, Silk, Howard the Duck

Veronica Fish is an illustrator and comic book artist. Her work includes Archie for Archie Comics, Spider-Woman, Silk, Howard the Duck for Marvel, Slam! for BOOM! Studios, Pirates of Mars (self-published), and the graphic novel The Wendy Project for Papercutz. She is a frequent cover artist for IDW, Valiant, Dynamite and BOOM! Studios.

Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries across the US, and she’s done some fun stuff like storyboarding for commercials, illustrating for clothing companies and magazines, and character design.

She is currently working on a new project for Dark Horse Comics with Evan Dorkin. She lives in New England with her husband and fellow artist Andy Fish.

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Larry F.Houston

Producer, director, The X-Men Animated series

Larry F. Houston is the Emmy-nominated producer/director of The X-Men animated show, the phenomenally successful 1990s series that was part of the foundation that helped launch Marvel’s multi-billion-dollar franchises. Hired by Filmation Studios as the first African American Saturday Morning storyboard artist, he storyboarded and directed some of the favorite ’80s and ’90s classic shows such as Thundarr, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe The Movie, Mr. T, Batman, Jonny Quest, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Captain Planet, Fantastic Four, Mighty Orbots, and Bionic Six. Houston pencilled He-Man Mini-Comics and promises new stories for The Vanguards, his creator-owned super-heroines first published through Charlton Bullseye.

Thursday 19th

What Marvel Means to Me!

10:30am – 11:30am
Room 24ABC

The name “Marvel” immediately brings to mind eye-popping visuals and superhero slugfests, but beneath the widescreen trappings and cosmic adventure, there’s an innate humanity that resonates with audiences and a legacy of storytellers who bring this universe to life. Here, co-moderators Professor Ben Saunders(Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes exhibit at MoPop) and Patrick A. Reed (Depth of Field) speak with an all-star group of panelists about the stories, characters, and people that make Marvel so enduring.

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Spotlight on Larry Houston

11:00am – 12:00pm
Room 5AB

Comic-Con guest Larry F. Houston is the Emmy Award-nominated producer/director of The X-Men animated show, the phenomenally successful ’90s series that was part of the foundation that helped launch Marvel’s multi-billion-dollar franchises. Hired by Filmation Studios as the first African American Saturday morning cartoon storyboard artist, he storyboarded and directed some of the most popular ’80s and ’90s classic shows, including Thundarr, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, G.I. JOE, Jonny Quest, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Captain Planet, Fantastic Four, Mighty Orbots, and Bionic Six. Hear all the inside info on his career in this spotlight.

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Making Comics the Marvel Way

12:00pm – 1:00pm
Room 25ABC

Editor-in-chief C. B. Cebulski and talent scout Rickey Purdin join a multitude of Mighty Marvel panelists to take you behind the scenes and show you how a Marvel comic book is made. Learn about every aspect of production, including writing, penciling, inking, coloring, lettering, editing, and more, with creators on hand to offer personal insights and anecdotes.

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Marvel Games Panel

1:00pm – 2:00pm
Hall H

Get an inside look at the latest and greatest from Marvel Games. Attendees will see exciting sneak peeks of Marvel’s Spider-Man, Marvel Powers United VR, and Marvel Battle Lines, with many unannounced surprises and panel exclusives. Host Greg Miller (loudmouth at KindaFunny.com) will be joined by Mike Jones (vice president & executive producer, Marvel Games), Bill Rosemann (executive creative director, Marvel Games), Bryan Intihar (creative director, Insomniac Games, Marvel’s Spider-Man), and others.

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Marvel Animation: Marvel Rising

3:15pm – 4:15pm
Room 6DE

Marvel Rising brings together the next generation of Marvel Super Heroes for the next generation of Marvel fans. This is your chance to be among the first to see a sneak peek of this group of powered teens and their adventures that are full of heart, action, comedy, and powerful messages for every kind of Marvel fan. Join our Ghost-Spider Dove Cameron (Descendants, Liv & Maddie), our Quake Chloe Bennet (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nashville) our Squirrel Girl Milana Vayntrub (This Is Us, Silicon Valley), our Ms. Marvel Kathreen Khavari (Big Little Lies, Marvel’s Avengers), our Patriot Kamil McFadden (K.C. Undercover, Grown Ups 2), Cort Lane (SVP, Animation and Family Entertainment), Marsha Griffin (VP, Animation Current Series and Development), Mairghread Scott (Writer, Marvel Rising) and Sana Amanat (VP, Content and Character Development) for an action-packed panel that will showcase the first look of the animated shorts, special announcements, and so much more.

Friday 20th

Spotlight on Veronica Fish

11:30am – 12:30pm
Room 8

Veronica Fish (Archie, Spider-Woman, Slam! and now Blackwood for Dark Horse) offers tips on how to stay sane working at home, meeting deadlines and collaborating with your spouse in this fun chat session moderated by her husband, Andy Fish (Dracula, Geeks & Greeks, Blackwood).

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Comics in Animation

10:00am – 11:00am
Room 9

How do you adapt a comic book series into animation? Are the approaches to the characters different from one company to the next? What about independent comics? Can they even get into the game? Writers and studio executives including Stan Berkowitz (Avengers Assemble, Batman Beyond), Mike Carlin (creative director, animation, DC Entertainment), Cort Lane (senior VP of animation & family entertainment, Marvel), Craig Miller (Curious George, Beast Wars), Marv Wolfman (Transformers, Pocket Dragon Adventures), and Amy Wolfram (Teen Titans, DC Superhero Girls) talk about how they differ, what makes them the same, and how cool it is to work on characters you grew up loving.

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75 Years of Superhero Cereal Boxes

11:00am – 12:00pm
Grand 9, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina

You are invited to breakfast with cerealologists Mikal and Duane. Take the cereal box tour, starting with the first 1942 Superman box to current Marvel/DC Superheroes on the shelves today. Witness amazing graphic images and videos of the first Spider-Man, Batman, Hulk, TMNT, Justice League, Iron Man, and Wonder Woman super boxes. Explore superhero boxes from around the world. Learn how to collect cereal boxes and where to find these priceless pieces of cardboard and how to trade them. Hear bits of information from web pages, books, cereal box collectors, and secret insights not found on the web. Panelists include Mikal Vollmer (who created the first cereal box zine called Free Inside and is now Youtube’s Free Inside: Cereal Box Collecting series) and Duane Dimock (who has collected for 44 years and acquired over 10,000 boxes, from 1869 to present).

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Cartoon Voices I

1:00pm – 2:30pm
Room 6BCF

Once more, moderator Mark Evanier brings six top cartoon voice actors together to talk about their work, demonstrate their craft, and perform a script with insufficient prep time. This time out, the lineup includes J. P. Karliak (The Boss Baby: Back in Business, The New Looney Tunes), Julie Nathanson (Skylanders, Avengers Assemble), John Mariano (Animaniacs, Hey Arnold!), Kari Wahlgren (Bunnicula, Bunsen Is a Beast), Roger L. Jackson (The Powerpuff Girls, Ghostface), Matthew Mercer (Thundercats, Marvel’s Spider-Man), and maybe a surprise or two.

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Marvel Comics: Next Big Thing

1:45pm – 2:45pm
Room 6A

Editor-in-chief C. B. Cebulski and executive editor Nick Lowe are joined by Donny Cates (Cosmic Ghost Rider, Death of Inhumans) and Margaret Stohl (Life of Captain Marvel) to discuss the startling stories and initiatives that are truly the next big things in the Marvel Universe! In Fantastic Four, the Richards family is heading back to Earth, but they still have one more cosmic obstacle to overcome. Meanwhile, the specter of death hangs around the Inhumans and the Ghost Rider of a dark future in Donny Cates’s Death of Inhumansand Cosmic Ghost Rider. And as the Infinity Wars ignite, are any characters truly safe? All this, plus learn more about the definitive origin of Captain Marvel, as Margaret Stohl opens up about Life of Captain Marvel.

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Marvel Comics: Meet the Editor-in-Chief

3:00pm – 4:00pm
Room 6A

This is your chance to meet the new head of editorial at Marvel! In this exclusive one-on-one interview led by Skottie Young (Deadpool), freshly minted editor-in-chief C. B. Cebulski will talk about anything and everything involved in what’s next for Marvel. Want to know where to search for the Infinity Stones? Dying to find out what’s next for Wolverine? What does Forbush Man really look like without his helmet? Ask C. B. these questions and more in the Q&A! Plus, don’t miss a surprise exclusive giveaway variant comic.

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Hasbro Marvel

4:00pm – 5:00pm
Room 25ABC

The Hasbro and Marvel product experts discuss some exciting news around Hasbro’s ever-popular Marvel Legends action figure line. Attendees will get a sneak peek of upcoming, never-before-seen Marvel action figures, followed by Q&A for your Marvel action figure questions.

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IGN’s Gamechangers: Telling Original Stories

4:00pm – 5:00pm
Room 6BCF

IGN brings together the most brilliant minds from the worlds of film, TV, games, and comics-the “game changers” for their industries-and has them talk about what it takes to tell original stories in a world wonderfully filled with sequels, adaptations, and continuations. Moderated by IGN’s Daemon Hatfield, this panel featuring Insomniac’s Ted Price (Spider-Man, Spyro), DC comics writer Scott Snyder (Justice League, DC Metal) and director Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kong: Skull Island) will discuss the secrets to their success and what they try to bring to the table with original storytelling.

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Marvel Animation presents an action-packed, news-breaking panel that’ll leave you begging for more! This year they are going royal with the Wakandan king himself, T’Challa, as they preview the new season of Marvel’s Avengers: Black Panther’s Quest. Plus, tons of exclusive info on fan-favorite series Marvel’s Spider-Man, as well as other exciting projects. Hosted by the calamitous Cort Lane (SVP, Animation and Family Entertainment), the effervescent Eric Radomski (SVP, production and creative director, Marvel Animation), andthe horrendous Harrison Wilcox (senior director, development and production), you’ll get eyefuls of never-before-seen information and sneak peeks . . . plus surprise panelists and a can’t-miss Marvel Team-Up live! Get there!

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“Ask Her Anything” Spotlight on Ann Nocenti

3:00pm – 4:00pm
Room 4

Comic-Con special guest Ann Nocenti has written for Marvel (Daredevil, Spiderman) created Longshot, Mojo, and Spiral with Arthur Adams, created Blackheart and Typhoid Mary with John Romita Jr., and was the editor of The X-Men books in the 1980s. For DC Comics she wrote Catwoman, Klarion, and other comics. Her new comic is The Seeds, for Berger Books/Dark Horse, with Marvel’s Hawkeye artist David Aja. Nocenti will answer any questions about her 30-year career in comics.

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Why Geek Is the New Cool

3:00pm – 4:00pm
Grand 1 & 2, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina

Pop culture is now embracing and promoting intelligence. American Mensa members and partners from entertainment to gaming to animation discuss the surge in popularity of the quirky, yet relatable, protagonists representing intelligence. Geek has always been cool-now it’s hot. Panelists include Leif Gantvoort (actor and Mensa member, 60 Yard Line, The Amazing Spider-Man), Christopher Lastrapes (Mensa member and VP of content strategy for Theorem Media), LaRae Bakerink (chair of American Mensa, avid Comic-Con attendee), Trevor Mitchell (CEO and executive director of American Mensa), Brandon Davis (special assignment producer for ComicBook.com) and Lee Parkhurst (manager of digital brand marketing for Educational Insights). Moderated by Steven L. Sears (writer, producer, Xena: Warrior Princess).