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BALTIMORE COMIC-CON 2026 GUEST
Courtesy of Abrams
Chip Kidd
Writer and Artist
Booth 1902
The Avengers in the Veracity Trap!

Chip Kidd is a VP art director and Editor-At-Large at the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Kidd, a four-time Eisner Award winner, has design covers for the best writers in the business, including Cormac McCarthy, Bret Easton Ellis, Anne Rice, Frank Miller, Michael Crichton, Alex Ross, Charles Schulz, Osamu Tezuka, Gengoroh Tagame, David Sedaris, Donna Tartt, and Haruki Murakami, among many others. His most recent book as author is The Avengers in the Veracity Trap! published by Abrams Comic Arts, in conjunction with Marvel Comics.

Chip Kidd panels and programming:

Comics, Design, and the Art of Dissent: Derf Backderf and Chip Kidd in Conversation
Saturday September 26, 2026 1:00 pm to 1:45 pm | Room: 338

Join Derf Backderf (My Friend Dahmer, Trashed, Kent State) and writer/designer Chip Kidd (Only What’s Necessary, The Essential Peanuts) for a spirited conversation about their newest graphic novels, The Dissidents and The Avengers in the Veracity Trap!, as well as the collaborations they have worked on together over the past two decades. Moderated by Charles Kochman, Editor-in-Chief of Abrams ComicArts.

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