OMG! Brand new to the HeroesCon 2010 Guest List today is rising-star wunderkind Sean Gordon Murphy, whose Joe the Barbarian book with Grant Morrison is already one of the most talked-about books of the coming year! Holy cow this guy can draw too–I wasn’t that familiar with him myself, but after Dustin Nguyen pointed his work out to me, I was pretty floored. Holy mackerel. Besides a collaboration with Morrison–nothing to sneeze at, for sure, it hasn’t hurt Ethan Van Sciver or Phil Jimenez‘s career too much (although what ever happened to occasional New X-Men fill-in artist Igor Kordey?)–Sean’s art has also graced Teen Titans, Batman/Scarecrow: Year One, and a whole slue of unpublished Hellblazer pages. I’m not sure why they aren’t published yet, but if you check out Sean’s Deviant Art site, you can see those badboys–whoa.

Also attending HeroesCon for the very first time this year will be wife-husband team Colleen Coover and Paul Tobin. The two have worked both separately and together on a number of Marvel titles, including the upcoming Girl Comics, X-Men First Class, and Power Pack by Colleen; and the just-announced Spider-Man: Marvel Adventures, Spider-Man & The Secret Wars, and Black Widow & The Marvel Girls by Paul. Colleen is also the creator of the Banana Sunday series some of you may remember from the indie side of the store a few years ago.

The three luminaries are joined on the list this week by returning greats Thomas Boatwright (Cemetery Blues, Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo), Jeremy Dale (GI Joe, Popgun), and Nate Lovett (Xombie: Reanimated). Oh! And one last first-timer, and a fellow North-Carolinian to boot: Chris Stevens will be attending his first HeroesCon this year–he’s worked extensively with Udon Studios and on books including Exalted and Dungeon Magazine! Although he’s buddies with both Tim Townsend and Casey Jones, which frankly doesn’t say much for his character, BELIEVE ME. Here’s hoping he’s just fallen in with rough crowd!

Okay, one more Joe the Barbarian image, this one swiped from Sean Murphy’s Deviant Art page: