COMICON NAPOLI reaches its milestone 25th edition this year – and fans are ready for the long four-day festival, to be held from 1st to 4th May 2025 at the Mostra d’Oltremare in Naples, Italy.
Guests at the 25th edition of COMICON Napoli 2025, will include Álvaro Martínez Bueno, the co-creator of the post-apocalyptic horror series The Nice House on the Lake, one of the most-awarded comics series at the Eisner Awards, and Angouleme’s festival awards, in recent years.



Álvaro Martínez Bueno is a Spanish comic artist, working exclusively with DC Comics. He is the co-creator and artist on the best selling series by DC Black Label The Nice House on the Lake, written by James Tynion IV, coloured by Jordie Bellaire and published in English by DC Comics. The Nice House By The Sea, a second maxi-series, launched back in July last year.
In his long career as a cartoonist for the American comic market, he has also worked on other DC series such as Detective Comics, Justice League Dark, Batman & Robin Eternal, Aquaman and Grayson, among others, and on work for Marvel and Valiant Entertainment.
Throughout his career, Martínez Bueno has illustrated scripts by James Tynion IV, Scott Snyder, Ram V, Tom King or Tim Seeley and has collaborated with artists such as the inkers Stefano Gaudiano and Raül Fernández, or colourists Brad Anderson and Jordie Bellaire, among others.


This year’s COMICON will be fully packed with activities, from comics to video games, from cinema to TV series, gaming, cosplay, live music and LARP. Only last year the festival was able to count on 175,000 visitors and 580 events in four days, 400 exhibitors from Italy and abroad, more than 8000 accredited trade visitors.
More than 450 guests attended the last edition, including Frank Miller,Troy Beker, Jerome Flynn, John Romita Jr., Go Nagai, Lucy Lawless, Moebius, Liam Cunningham and others.
This year is a special anniversary. The lineup is packed with guests from all over the world. Among the confirmed guests: Altan, one of the most beloved and esteemed comic artists and satirical cartoonists of all time, creator of ‘Pimpa‘, will be awarded the COMICON 2025 Special Award for Lifetime Achievement; Darick Robertson, the American comic artist and screenwriter has been on the scene for over 30 years. He is the co-creator of ‘Transmetropolitan’ and the comic turned hit tv series ‘The Boys’.

As previously reported, the COMICON Napoli 2025 poster is an image created for the occasion by Jamie Hewlett, the British artist known especially for having co-created with Damon Albarn Gorillaz, the virtual band that became an international sensation. The protagonist of the poster is Murphy, a girl unflinching fan of comic art, animation and pop culture, ready to do anything to get to her favourite festival!
“Mini Murphy has a missing tooth and a black eye, the trophy’s of a fun weekend in the woods on her BMX bike. However painful, these injuries are not enough to prevent her from attending her favourite gathering, Comicon!” Jamie Hewlett said.
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