SUNDAY, MARCH 23 2025
164 FORT COUCH ROAD
CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL
PAST GUESTS
Special Guest Artists + Creators
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Pittsburgh Comic Book Show has had the pleasure of hosting the below comic book and cover artists at our past shows.
Arthur Suydam
Renowned artist on Deadpool, Wolverine and more, Arthur Suydam, "The Zombie King," as he is known, rose to stardom for his work on the smash hit series Marvel Zombies, the lines at his booth at any given show are a testament to the enduring "zombie craze," with Suydam as a forerunner. He is also renowned as the Deadpool cover artist on Merc with a Mouth. As well as The Walking Dead. He is credited as one of the first artists to bring fine art painting techniques to the world of comics in books such as Cholly and Flytrap and Mudwogs.
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Recent awards for Arthur include "The Spike TV Scream Award (Best Artist)," "Spectrum Gold Award for Institutional Art," "The San Sebastian Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award," as well as the "University of Maryland Eastern Shore Lifetime Achievement Award," among others.
His work can also be seen in works for Aliens, DCeased, The Walking Dead, Deadpool, Batman, Wolverine, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Ghost Rider, Army of Darkness, Moonknight, Vampirella, Sheena, Red Sonja, Tarzan, and too many to name here. His "Cholly and Flytrap" series has recently been compiled into a collected volume, marking that great achievement and its place in comic history.
Bill McKay
Michigan-based comic cover + pinup artist. Bill's work includes Zombie Tramp, Lady Death, Red Sonja, Vampirella and Unnatural. In late 2022, he launched his first creator owned title, Kim the Delusional, to great success.
See his work here.
Bob Hall
​Bob Hall has worked on many of Marvel’s books and characters including pencils for The Champions, Spiderman, Thor, What If, Doctor Strange, New Mutants, Team Up The Fantastic Four, three runs on The Avengers, the graphic novel, Emperor Doom and many others including the movie books for Willow, Darkman and the notorious 1980s Captain America film. He co-created The West Coast Avengers and Squadron Supreme and drew the Spiderman/SNLTeam-Up. He was an editor there in 1978.
For Valiant/Acclaim Comics, he wrote and penciled Shadowman, wrote Timewalker and created the “comic book-noir” series Armed and Dangerous. For DC, he wrote and drew the graphic novels, Batman DOA, I, Joker and It’s Jokertime and did issues of Batman and Chase.
He has done a variety of work since, working for Future Comics, a Platinum Kiss Comic, the new Valiant and covers for Marvel.
Recently he has created an educational/fantasy comics about the measles virus, Carnival of Contagion, mosquitoes in Mosquitoes Suck, and a weekly comic page for kids on COVID, called C’rona Comix
He is also a theatre director, having directed over 200 plays professionally and founded a Shakespeare Festival in 2001 in Lincoln Nebraska
Khoi Pham
Khoi Pham is an artist and art mentor. His works include DC's Teen Titans, Marvel's Mighty Avengers, X-Men Legacy, Scarlet Spider, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Chaos War, Incredible Hercules, Gambit, Mighty Thor, X-Factor, and Topcow's Cyberforce
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See his work here.​
