Celebrate a vast array of sentient beings, some of whom may occasionally be more sympathetic than human characters, with creators Dana Simpson (Phoebe and her Unicorn), Leah Thomas (When Light Left Us), Jim Pascoe (Cottons: The Secret of the Wind), Nicole Conway (Dragonrider Legacy series), and Cecil Castellucci (Shade: The Changing Girl), moderated by Maryelizabeth Yturralde (Mysterious Galaxy).
Saturday March 30, 2019 10:30am - 11:30am PDT
Room 300D
Mary Anne Butler (news editor, Bleeding Cool; EiC, Aggressive Comix), Dana Han-Klein (Mohawk Movie Review), Alexandra August (CBR, ScreenRant), and Thomas Parham (APU) discuss the expansion of journalism over the past decade, from the rise of citizen journalism to blogging to vloggers, podcasters, and online-only news sources. The session will be an interactive conversation with the audience about the role new media plays between their readers and the industries and communities they serve, varying levels of informality versus classic ideas of professionalism, show-specific outlets versus general news sites, moving from hobbyist to being a professional, legal challenges, and more.
UPDATED: Mon, Mar 18, 02:37PM
Saturday March 30, 2019 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Room 209
Get your questions answered in this panel with Peter J. Tomasi, a New York Times bestselling author known for his work on Batman: Detective Comics, Superman, Batman and Robin, Super-Sons, Green Lantern Corps, Brightest Day, and many others. Over the course of his career with DC Comics, Peter also served as a group editor ushering in new eras for Batman, Green Lantern, and JSA along with special projects like Kingdom Come. Peter is the author of the creator-owned books The Bridge: How the Roeblings Connected Brooklyn to New York with artist Sara DuVall (Abrams), House of Penance with artist Ian Bertram (Dark Horse), Light Brigade with artist Peter Snejbjerg (Dark Horse), and The Mighty with Keith Champagne, Chris Samnee, and Peter Snejbjerg (Dark Horse).
Saturday March 30, 2019 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
Room 213AB
From art direction at the famous Kubert School to art direction at DC Comics, WonderCon special guest Andy Kubert discusses his career as both artist and teacher, plus what it's been like to work on some of the biggest comics at both Marvel and DC.
Saturday March 30, 2019 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Room 207
You are cordially invited to a spotlight panel on WonderCon special guest Gerry Duggan. It will be unmoderated; however, it will be dungeon mastered. If you do not have a dice bag, you may borrow some of Gerry's dice, but we encourage you to bring your own dice because Gerry's are cursed. You will ask your questions of Gerry, and then you will both roll the dice to see what happens next. You may ask your question, or perhaps not. Perhaps you will be killed and asked to leave the room. Then perhaps Gerry will answer your question. He is a monster. Or maybe you will win Gerry's treasure.* Who can foretell what will happen? You will get a bonus to attack Gerry for dressing as a character Gerry's written. *One adventurer will win a single CGC graded 9.8 comic previously signed by Gerry.
Saturday March 30, 2019 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Room 209
Learn how to write and illustrate for kids with authors and illustrators Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn), Barbara Bottner (Priscilla Gorilla), Scott Campbell (Sleepy, the Goodnight Buddy), Molly Idle (Flora and the Flamingo), Lee Wardlaw (Won Ton and Chopstick), and Jo Whittemore (Supergirl). Moderated by Henry Herz (Good Egg & Bad Apple).
Saturday March 30, 2019 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT
Room 213AB
The shared mind of Venom & Eddie Brock joins Marvel Comics superstar writer and WonderCon special guest Donny Cates. Donny will discuss his ongoing monthly Venom book, as well as the new Venom event this August.
Saturday March 30, 2019 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Room 209
WonderCon special guests Julie Benson and Shawna Benson talk about their journey breaking into writing for television and comics. They are best known for their work on DC Comics Batgirl and the Birds of Prey and Green Arrow, CW's The 100, and Wu Assassins for Netflix. They're excited to discuss how they work as a team and answer audience questions.
Saturday March 30, 2019 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Room 207
Spooks and specters, ghastlies and ghoulies, monsters and mayhem are all part of daily life for the characters in these authors' novels. Nadine Armstrong (occasional bookseller, always reader) leads the discussion of the dark fantastic with Stephen Blackmoore (Eric Carter series), Jessica Cluess (Kingdom on Fire series), Kristi Charish (Kincaid Strange series), Tania del Rio (Warren the 13th series), and Sam Hooker (Terribly Serious Darkness series).
Saturday March 30, 2019 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
Room 208
Successful novelists, screenwriters, and actors each bring a different perspective to a discussion on how to create a utopian society for storytelling. Panelists include David Brin (The Uplift War, Existence), Gigi Edgley (Farscape, Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge), Robert Meyer Burnett (Free Enterprise), David Alexander English (Rainbow Gathering organizer, author of 28 books), Jimmy Diggs (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9), Marc Scott Zicree (Space Command, Star Trek: TNG). Moderated by Mark O'Bannon (The Dream Crystal, Aia the Barbarian).
Saturday March 30, 2019 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
Room 300D
This seminar by award-winning writer Marv Wolfman is intended for those who want to write but are not sure how to go about it. Marv will discuss character creation, characterization, how to plot and how to make your characters come alive on the page. If you're a brand-new writer, this seminar is meant for you. Come early as the seminar room fills up fast.
Saturday March 30, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Room 210
The Big Bang Theory writers will take you behind-the-scenes of TV's #1 comedy one final time before the series signs off in May. From huge guest stars to the final goodbye, find out what it takes to bring this show from a theory to the longest running multi-camera comedy in television history. The show's executive producers and writers will take you inside the writers' room for a lively discussion and special video presentation. From Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc. in association with Warner Bros. Television, The Big Bang Theory airs Thursdays at 8/7c on CBS.
The Internet is the planetary-scale nervous system for our species, and these days it consists of four giant sites filled with screenshots from the other three. The lesson of this moment in late-stage capitalism isn't that Facebook has figured out how to build a mind-control ray: Rather, it's that they've figured out how to scale up the paltry sums they extract from your personal life into piles so big, they add up to billions. WonderCon special guest Cory Doctorow shows us that fixing technology isn't a matter of paying for things instead of seeing ads: It's all about seizing the means of information and controlling your tech, rather than being controlled by it.
Saturday March 30, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Room 211
From Batgirl and Doom Patrol to Watchmen and Y: The Last Man, an ever-expanding number of comic-based TV shows have graced our screens, but how do you translate one visual format to another? Alex Freedman and Nick Watson (Paper Team) bring an all-star group of writers and producers to discuss comics and TV. Panelists include Tamara Becher (Doom Patrol, Daredevil), Marc Bernardin (Castle Rock, Treadstone), Julie and Shawna Benson (Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, The 100), Christopher Monfette (Hellraiser, 12 Monkeys), J. Holtham (Cloak & Dagger, Pitch), and Samantha Levenshus (Nightflyers, Neon Future).
UPDATED: Mon, Mar 18, 11:59AM
Saturday March 30, 2019 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Room 207
Jim Sullos (president, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.), Cathy Wilbanks (vice president of operations, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.), author Christopher Paul Carey (director of publishing, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.), artist Thomas Yeates (Groo vs. Tarzan), and filmmaker Robert de Young (Tarzan Revisited) discuss new releases featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous literary heroes, including comics, novels, role-playing games, collectibles, and Robert's award-winning documentary. Moderated by author Scott Tracy Griffin (director of special projects, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.).
Saturday March 30, 2019 4:30pm - 5:30pm PDT
Room 208
Come see this annual all-star, insider look at your favorite TV series from the scribes behind some of today's hottest genre shows. This time they're bringing the writers' room to you as they discuss making an episode of a one-hour dramatic TV series in this amazing super-sized panel. Our heroic line-up this year includes moderator Chris Parnell (co-president, Sony Pictures Television), Gabrielle Stanton (Titans, The Flash), Ashley E. Miller (Lore, Fringe), Amy Berg (Counterpart, Eureka), Steven Melching (Star Wars Rebels, The Clone Wars), Ryan Condal (Colony), Deric Hughes (Arrow, The Flash), Bo Yeon Kim (Star Trek: Discovery, Reign), Kay Reindl (Swamp Thing, Freakish), Jesse Alexander (Lost, Heroes, American Gods), Sarah Watson (The Middleman, Parenthood), Brian Ford Sullivan (Arrow), Marc Bernardin (Treadstone, Castle Rock), and Mark A. Altman (The Librarians, Agent X). Also win a chance to receive a free copy of the new Final Draft 11.
Saturday March 30, 2019 5:30pm - 6:30pm PDT
Room 300D
In an industry plagued by monolithic power struggles, readers and fans crave new stories and voices from the real and diverse world in which they live. The obvious place to start is with the upcoming generations. Come hear from educators, entertainment journalists, and industry professionals in the conversation as we discuss the fast-changing industry and how to get #ownvoice creators into these difficult-to-manage spaces from the classroom to the boardroom.
Saturday March 30, 2019 6:00pm - 7:00pm PDT
Room 300B
Moderator Spiro Skentzos (Arrow) and several genre showrunners, executive producers, and TV executives including Mark Kruger (Midnight Texas), Rockne S. O’Bannon (Farscape), Gabrielle Stanton (Titans), and Ryan Mickels (manager of current programming, Universal Content Productions) discuss navigating the TV spec terrain, including beginner's mistakes, what producers look for in a writer, and what it takes for you to write a killer spec that will stand above the crowd. There will be a huge Q&A component, so bring your questions.
UPDATED: Tue, Mar 19, 10:40AM
Saturday March 30, 2019 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Room 213AB
This panel addresses what a new writer needs to do once they have material ready to go out to the masses. The shifting 21st century digital frontier means the age-old methods of building a career have been rendered irrelevant and this group of Hollywood screenwriters and graphic novel creators share insider information, publishing secrets, and the professional realities on how to develop your ideas into a viable property and market yourself accordingly. Moderated by 2015 Disney/ABC Writing Program winner and 2014 Eisner Award nominee Brandon Easton (Transformers: War for Cybertron, Marvel's Agent Carter), the panel includes producer Geoffrey Thorne (Black Panther's Quest, The Librarians), artist/writer Tony Puryear (Queen of the South, the Schwarzenegger film Eraser), writer Ubah Mohammed (DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Gang Related), and writer Brandon Thomas (Catalyst Prime: Noble, Skybound's Horizon).
Saturday March 30, 2019 7:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Room 207
Annie Wilkes, sledgehammer, your ankles. Is this your writing fear or your pinnacle of excellence? Or do you fear your writing will never hit a pinnacle of excellence? Don't fear your fears because these panelists will help you channel them into writing, especially horror. Nelson Soler (Co EP, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists), Lia Martin (Netflix's Family Reunion, "Mediocre Mom"), Kristine Huntley (Freakish, Mind Games), Kayreth Williams (Humanitas New Voices Winner), Suzanne Park (Untitled Novel, Spring '20 release), and Teresa Huang (SEAL Team, Superstition). Moderator: Ken Choy (Essential Quintessential Harry Potter Collector).
UPDATED: Mon, Mar 18, 11:59AM
Saturday March 30, 2019 7:30pm - 8:30pm PDT
Room 213AB
