DSTLRY & Neon Ichiban at San Diego Comic Con 2025
DSTLRY & the recently announced Neon Ichiban are storming San Diego Comic-Con next week with a host of panels highlighting the most cutting storytellers, artists, and innovations lying around the corner.
Take a look below at these panels and live draws (in chronological order) and say hello!
NEON ICHIBAN: The Future of Digital Comics and Manga
Thursday, 7/24/25, 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Room: 25ABC
Discover Neon Ichiban, a new all-in-one digital comics and manga hub from Comixology Vets David Steinberger and Chip Mosher. Launching with a stellar line up of publishers—(in alphabetical order) Dark Horse Comics, DC, DSTLRY, Kodansha, Marvel Comics, Oni Press, Vault Comic and more to be announced—NEON ICHIBAN lets fans read, buy, sell, and collect digital comics like never before.
This panel offers a first look at key features: same-day releases, limited digital collectibles, resellable digital comics, and Neon Ichiban’s exclusive remarques technology—where creators can sign and sketch on your digital comics. If you love comics, manga and innovation, this is your new home.
Editor Vs. Creator with Will Dennis, Jock & Pornsak Pichetshote
Friday, 7/25/25, 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Room: 23ABC
We would not be here, at this convention, without one person tirelessly working to ensure creators are supported, deadlines are met, and typos obliterated. The editor stands at the nexus of the comic pipeline, straddling the creative and the logistical to guide every script, bristol board, and lettering file into a glorious whole. This panel dives into how the best editors and creators harmonize to create epic stories that will be read for decades, while only taking weeks to produce. Join Will Dennis (DSTLRY Founding Editor, DC/Vertigo) and Pornsak Pichetshote (Former Vertigo Editor), alongside illustration maestro Jock (Gone, Batman) as they pull back the curtain on the process of cultivating dreams to the printing press. Moderated by Ernie Estrella.
Neon Ichiban Live Draw: Digital Remarques
Friday, 7/25/25
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Room: 24ABC
Igniting this Summer, Neon Ichiban is a new multi-publisher digital comics and manga platform revolutionizing how fans read and collect. This hub allows readers to get their digital comics signed and sketched with Digital Remarques, a new innovation that empowers fans to bring the convention to them, giving access to original, one-of-a-kind art and signatures on their digital comics. Join world-class artists including Cully Hamner (Blue Beetle, Life cover artist), Joshua Hixson (The Deviant, Spectregraph cover artist), and Natalie Andrewson (Through the Boughs cover artist) as they sketch in real time and talk about their art process. Moderated by Neon Ichiban co-founders David Steinberger & Chip Mosher.
Building New Worlds with DSTLRY
Saturday, 7/26/25, 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Room: 24ABC
The pioneers of creator-owned comics work whole-cloth to not only construct characters and plot, but conjure sprawling worlds with a scope that defies belief. The creators on this panel represent this era’s biggest mythmakers, traversing media to establish new frontiers of fiction. Join Tula Lotay (Somna), and Joe Henderson (The Big Burn) (and some other potential special guests) as they deconstruct the art of summoning new universes from their imaginations.
DSTLRY: The Art of the Cover
Saturday, 7/26/25 3:30PM - 4:30PM
Room: 5AB
The most striking comic covers condense entire plotlines and pages into one iconic image. This panel unites a host of the most talented, trailblazing artists to prove that sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. Join Becky Cloonan (Somna), Natalie Andrewson (cover artist on Through the Boughs), Soo Lee (cover artist on Warm Fusion), and some secret guests as they discuss the art of crafting inspired eye candy. Moderated by DSTLRY Marketing Director Sean Edgar.
The Jock Live Draw
Sunday 7/27/25, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Room: 11
No artist’s work is as inimitably recognizable as Jock’s. His hands have redefined such mythological figures as Batman and Judge Dredd, as well as sculpted new creations like The Losers, Wytches, and the tortured souls of DSTLRY’s You Won’t Feel a Thing. Join Jock as he draws in real time alongside moderator and legendary editor Will Dennis.
