Geof Darrow blew minds when he teamed with Frank Miller to create the monument to dizzying detail Hard Boiled. My eyeballs are still recovering! Geof teamed with Frank again to create Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, another oversized comic adventure which was later turned into an animated television series.  He was head conceptual artist on the Wachowski Brothers I trilogy and has worked on various other film projects with directors Ridley Scott, J.J. Abrams, and Mc G. His latest comic, The Shaolin Cowboy, was created, written, and drawn by him and published by the Wachowski Brothers‘ Burlyman Entertainment which is being made into an animated film written and co-directed by Geof!

Indie Island anchorman J. Chris Campbell will be holding it down again at  HeroesCon 2011. Besides being the creator of the funny book Zig Zag and illustrator of the comic Recalcitrant Jones and the Dead Beats. He is the publisher of Wide Awake Press which has published over 50 mini-comics, 20 of which were authored by him including It’s the Attic Bugs.

HeroesCon 1st-timer Becky Cloonan is an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator who started self-publishing mini comics in 1999. Since then she has worked for publishers like Vertigo, Dark Horse and Marvel, with editions of her work in print in several different languages. Becky is currently working with Gerard Way on a new series from Dark Horse called True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, and still tries to self-publish one comic every year. I’m pretty sure she designed that bad ass spider that is all over everything in the latest My Chemical Romance videos, too.  Make sure to check with her when you welcome her to her first HeroesCon!

Dave Crosland (aka King Gum) is an illustrator who specializes in stylized art that is a harmonious collision of traditional aesthetics and modern, urban sensibilities.  Crosland’s notable works include Yo Gabba Gabba! Comic Book Time and Scarface: Scarred For Life, art for the pop band Gym Class Heroes‘ gold album “As Cruel As School Children”, and in-game illustrations for the Kick-Ass video game for Sony’s PS3.

Jen Van Meter has been writing comics since 1998.  Best known for her Hopeless Savages stories from Oni Press, she has also written short stories, single issues and mini-series for Marvel, DC, Dynamite and Dark Horse.  She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, writer Greg Rucka, and their children.  Currently, Jen is working on a new volume of Hopeless Savages material intended for a 2012 release.

That’s not all; Chris DiBari, Gary Friedrich, Matteo Scalera, Charles Soule have also been added to the HeroesCon 2011 guest list today!