Don’t Miss FCBD This Weekend at CC&C!
The 2025 Baltimore Comic-Con returns to the Inner Harbor’s Baltimore Convention Center on October 17-19, 2025. The Baltimore Comic-Con is privileged to welcome comics guest Jeff Smith to this year’s event. Bone fans (and everyone else!) can purchase tickets now on our website!
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Jeff Smith is the writer and artist of comics and graphic novels like Bone, RASL, Tuki, Thorn, and SHAZAM: The Monster Society of Evil. Both Bone and RASL were self-published and are New York Times Bestsellers. Bone began the current YA Graphic Novel explosion by launching Scholastic Books’ Graphix imprint and has won 48 national and international awards, including 10 Eisner Awards and 11 Harvey Awards and has been published around the world in 33 countries. RASL won an Eisner for Best Graphic Novel. CXC, the Columbus comics festival co-founded by Jeff, his wife Vijaya, and Lucy Caswell, celebrated its 10th year in 2024. Jeff continues to work on Deluxe Library Editions of his catalog, with Bone Part Two: Phoney Strikes Back, shipping Spring 2026.
>Cartoon Books announces BONE Deluxe Edition Part One: The Valley, an oversized compilation volume that reprints the first two BONE graphic novels and is filled with bonus extras like photos, early scripts, drawings, articles and reviews, revealing the story behind the making of BONE and Cartoon Books.
This is the second book in the Cartoon Books Deluxe Edition series. The first was launched last year with Smith’s THORN: The Complete Proto- BONE College Strips 1982 to 1986, collected in its entirety for the first time. The rest of the Cartoon Books library, including RASL and TUKI, will be released in Deluxe Editions in subsequent years.
The Baltimore Comic-Con will be Jeff’s only 2025 show appearance outside of his home state of Ohio.
“Like all kids young and old, I love Bone!” said Marc Nathan, show promoter for the Baltimore Comic-Con. “All of Jeff’s work is spectacular, but Bone holds a special place in my heart, as does Jeff. We are so excited that he is able to join us for this year’s event, and people will want to make sure they get a chance to catch Jeff at this year’s Baltimore Comic-Con!”
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Fans in the Baltimore area will not want to miss the show’s host store Cards, Comics & Collectibles‘ amazing Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) event featuring Baltimore Comic-Con guests and friends Jim Calafiore (Deadpool), Steve Conley (The Middle Age), Mark Morales (Thor), and Matt Wieringo (Stargate Atlantis: Gateways).
Visit us on May 3, 2025 from 10am-7pm at 51 Main St., Reisterstown, MD 21136! We will have free comics all day (while they last!), plus free food and beverages!
In addition, Saturday and Sunday, get 50% off paperbacks, hardcovers, manga, Artist Editions (excludes New This Week items and subscription holds), and modern back issue bins (back issue bins and boxes only). Don’t miss it!
Tickets that are now on sale include:
- Weekend
- Friday only
- Saturday only
- Sunday only
- VIP
As always, children 10 and under are free with a paid adult admission!
2025 GUESTS
This year’s confirmed guests for the show include: Kaare Andrews (Spider-Man: REIGN 2), John Beatty (Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars), Josh Blaylock (Mercy Sparx, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Russ Braun (The Boys), Jim Calafiore (NED, Lord of the Pit), Keith Champagne (Stranger Things), Howard Chaykin (Time Squared), Jim Cheung (Young Avengers), Frank Cho (Harley Quinn), Amy Chu (Emma Frost: The White Queen), Chris Claremont (X-Men), Matthew Clark (Adventures of Superman, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Becky Cloonan (Somna), Steve Conley (The Middle Age), Michael W. Conrad (Manowar: Invictus), Jeff Dekal (Something is Killing the Children), David Finch (Moon Knight), Trish Forstner (Feral), Franco (Deadman Tells the Spooky Tales), Barbara Friedlander (Swing with Scooter), Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (DC Nation), Mike Grell (Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters), Brian Haberlin (Spawn, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Mike Hawthorne (Deadpool), Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Incredible Hulk), Tula Lotay (Barnstormers), Kevin Maguire (Justice League), Laura Martin (Nubia: Queen of the Amazons), Shawn Martinbrough (Red Hood: The Hill), Ron Marz (Green Lantern), Mike McKone (Red Goblin), Bob McLeod (New Mutants), Adriana Melo (Action Comics), Josh Middleton (Aquaman), Al Milgrom (Spectacular Spider-Man), Mark Morales (Thor), Trevor Mueller (Albert the Alien), Sarah Myers (TMNT Saturday Morning Adventures), Tom Nguyen (The Switch), Mike Norton (Battlepug, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Kevin Nowlan (Batman: Sword of Azrael), Dan Parent (Sabrina the Teenage Witch), Andrew Pepoy (Simone & Ajax), Barbara Perez Marquez (The Cardboard Kingdom), Tom Raney (Green Lantern), Amy Reeder (Power Girl), Esad Ribic (Conan the Barbarian), Afua Richardson (Kahhori: Reshaper of Worlds), Craig Rousseau (Herculoids), Jim Rugg (Street Angel), Louise Simonson (The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special), Walter Simonson (Thor), Jeff Smith (Bone), Joe Staton (Dick Tracy), Mark Waid (Justice League Unlimited), Keith Williams (Web of Spider-Man), Maria Wolf (Phoenix), Rich Woodall (Electric Black), John Workman (Wild Things), and Thom Zahler (Love and Capes).
In the coming weeks, look for more announcements from the Baltimore Comic-Con. We are looking forward to highlighting our guests, the Ringo Awards, programming, and more. The latest developments can always be found on our website, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages, and follow us on YouTube, TikTok, BlueSky, and Snapchat.