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First Wave of WonderCon Guests Announced<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

WonderCon is delighted to announce the first group of special guests for 2025: Jessica Fong, Matt Forbeck, Todd McFarlane, and Adam Nimoy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jessica Fong<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Fong is a Bay Area\u2013based illustrator known for her stunning cover art in DC Comics’ GLAAD Award\u2013winning Poison Ivy<\/em> series. Her artwork blends surrealism with nature, often featuring dark yet beautiful imagery. Fong’s work captures the “terribly sublime,” a theme that is both haunting and aesthetically captivating. She contributes a range of covers for DC, Marvel, Mad Cave Studios, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, Heroic Signatures, and more. Her work can also be found in Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons & Dragons<\/em> and Magic: The Gathering<\/em>, Critical Role’s Midst series, Fandom Inc, and Marvel Snap.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Matt Forbeck<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Matt Forbeck is an award-winning and New York Times<\/em>\u2013bestselling author and game designer of over 35 novels and countless other books and games. His projects have won a Peabody Award, a Scribe Award, and numerous ENnies and Origins awards. He is also the president of the Diana Jones Award Foundation, which celebrates excellence in gaming. His latest work includes the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game Core Rulebook<\/em>, The Cataclysm of Kang campaign, and the X-Men Expansion and the Spider-Verse Expansion, plus Hard West 2, Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus, and the Shotguns & Sorcery 5E Sourcebook<\/em> based on his novels. This summer, look for his latest game book Minecraft: Roll for Adventure: The Temple of the Charged Creeper<\/em>, written with his son Marty.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Todd McFarlane<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Todd McFarlane is the Emmy and Grammy Award\u2013winning director\/producer and creator of one of the world\u2019s best-selling comics, Spawn.<\/em> He is known for his work on Spider-Man<\/em> and The Amazing Spider-Man,<\/em> where he co-created Venom. Todd is co-founder and President of Image Comics and is CEO of McFarlane Toys (which revolutionized the action figure industry), as well as Todd McFarlane Productions and McFarlane Films. Spawn <\/em>earned a Guinness World Record for \u201clongest-running creator-owned superhero comic book series.\u201d McFarlane\u2019s latest Kickstarter, Medieval Spawn,<\/em> was fully funded in under two minutes and became the fastest toys campaign to surpass $1M. In 2025, McFarlane is launching nine new comic titles.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Adam Nimoy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Adam Nimoy is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Loyola Law School. He practiced entertainment law for seven years before changing careers to become a television director. He directed over 45 hours of network television, including episodes of Ally McBeal, NYPD Blue,<\/em> and Gilmore Girls<\/em>. In 2016, he directed the documentary film For the Love of Spock, <\/em>the critically acclaimed documentary film about his father, Star Trek <\/em>actor Leonard Nimoy, which was an official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival. He was featured in the New York Times<\/em> article “To Boldly Explore Jewish Roots of Star Trek<\/em>,” and he published a Father’s Day piece about his relationship with his father for the Boston Globe<\/em>. <\/em>In 2024 Chicago Review Press published his memoir The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father Leonard Nimoy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday and Sunday only<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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