The Architects of What's Next

Brian Michael Bendis is a Peabody award winning comics creator, Amazon and New York Times bestseller most known for Co- creating MILES MORALES, JESSICA JONES, RIRI WILLIAMS, MARIA HILL, NAOMI and dozens of other characters and stories that populate the Marvel, DC and all new original universes.

Terri Libenson (pronounced LEE-ben-son) is a New York Times bestselling children’s book author and award-winning cartoonist of the syndicated daily comic strip, The Pajama Diaries, which ran from 2006-2020. Previously, she was an award-winning humorous card writer for American Greetings.

Peter Kuper is a 2026 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. His work appears regularly in Charlie Hebdo, The New Yorker, The Nation, and Mad , where he has written and illustrated “Spy vs. Spy” since 1997. He is the co-founder of World War 3 Illustrated, a political comix magazine now in its 47th year of publication.

Danny Fingeroth is a longtime popular culture critic and historian. He writes and speaks about topics that tell us about ourselves and the cultural icons that impact our lives.