The official San Diego Comic-Con Souvenir Book 2026, commemorating this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, taking place this weekend, spotlights Star Trek, and includes a tribute to the late Dave Taylor, written by David Scroggy.
2026’s exclusive content, available to download here as a PDF, focuses on a number of anniversary celebrations. Rich Handley provides an entertaining guide to the history of Star Trek in its 60th Year, while Paul Levitz offers a look back at the very first DC Marvel Comics crossover, Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-man, accompanied by an interview with writer Gerry Conway who has, sadly, passed. Steven Thompson celebrates 50 Years of Fantagraphics, publishers of the long-running Comics Journal, Love and Rockets and more.
Plus, longtime fan Joe Siclari marks 100 years of Amazing Stories with a fascinating guide to the SF magazine, and Mark Arnold wishes a happy 75th birthday to America’s Dennis the Menace; the character created by Hank Ketcham, not the BEANO character, which, unfortunately, captioning of imagery suggests, bizarrely, that they are one on the same, which I’m sure was not the article author’s intent as an expert on Dennis the Menace, author of the authoritative Pocket Full of Dennis the Menace, back in 2017.
Marvel’s X- Men are also in the spotlight, too, marking Ultimate X-Men #1, written by Mark Millar, published25 years ago.
The Souvenir Book also includes a “Yearbook” section, featuring bios and photos of all of Comic-Con 2026’s Special Guests, a look back at 2025’s awards, and a special “In Memoriam” section, with tributes to, among others, Sal Buscema, Gerry Conway, Sam Kieth, Drew Struzan and Dave Taylor.
(It was a pleasant a surprise to see a cropped photo I took at a Lancaster Comic Day 2015 featured, albeit credited to someone else entirely, but since this is Dave, and probably the closest I’ll ever get to being part of SDCC, which I’ve never attended, I’ll take it!)
San Diego Comic-Con (aka Comic-Con International) is a California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation organised for charitable purposes and dedicated to creating the general public’s awareness of and appreciation for comics and related popular art forms, including participation in and support of public presentations, conventions, exhibits, museums, and other public outreach activities which celebrate the historic and ongoing contribution of comics to art and culture.
If you weren’t able to attend San Diego Comic Con, then you might just want to consider a trip San Diego Comic-Con Málaga, taking place over 1st to 4th October in Spain, which is closer to home.
Over four days, San Diego Comic-Con Málaga brings together films, TV, comics, gaming, anime, cosplay, family activities, and unique experiences, giving every fan the freedom to experience the convention their own way.
Announced comic creator guests, who’ll appear alongside film, TV and video game stars, include 2000AD creator Pat Mills, Michael Golden, Dan Mora, David Messina and more.
• San Diego Comic-Con Souvenir Book 2026 Is available to download here as a PDF
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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