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SDCC ‘26: The countdown to 30 years of Oni Press starts at San Diego Comic Con

  • Writer: Ollie Kaplan
    Ollie Kaplan
  • 6 days ago
  • 4 min read

Oni Press revealed on Monday, July 13, its full slate of panels and signings for Comic-Con International 2026, and the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher has big plans for this year’s convention, as 2026 marks the countdown to its 30th anniversary.


Running Wednesday, July 22, through Sunday, July 26 at Booth #1829, Oni’s presence spans four major panels and a jam-packed signing schedule featuring Bryan Lee O’Malley, Tradd Moore, Matt Kindt, Brian Hurtt, Corinna Bechko, Tyler Crook, Rosie Knight, Christian Ward, and many more.


Oni Press SDCC 2026 panel schedule

The Countdown Begins


Kicking things off Thursday is Oni Press: The Countdown to 30 Years (Room 28DE), where President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson and Editor-in-Chief Sierra Hahn will be joined by O’Malley, Crook, Moore, and the Super Mondo Mega Mutts team of Curt Pires and Juan Gedeon for what promises to be a slate of surprise announcements.


Read the official panel description below:


Oni Press: The Countdown to 30 Years

Date: Thursday, July 23

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: Room 28DE

 

The countdown to 30 years of Oni Press starts right here at San Diego Comic Con as the groundbreaking publisher of Scott Pilgrim, EC Comics, Gender Queer, and more celebrates a stunning slate of new releases for 2026 and beyond with creators Tyler Crook (Out of Alcatraz, Archie Goes to Hell), Bryan Lee O’Malley (Scott Pilgrim), Tradd Moore (Touch Me Someplace Nowhere), Curt Pires & Juan Gedeon (Super Mondo Mega Mutts), and Christian Ward (The Forever Home), alongside President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson, Editor-in-Chief Sierra Hahn, and more surprise guests for breaking news, announcements, and more!


A Spotlight for Tradd Moore


Friday brings Focus on Tradd Moore (Room 23ABC)—the artist’s first-ever solo spotlight panel. Moore, who broke out with The Strange Talent of Luther Strode over a decade ago and has since worked on Silver Surfer: Black and Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise, will look back on his career and tease what’s next in Touch Me Someplace Nowhere.


Read the official panel description below:


Focus on Tradd Moore

Date: Friday, July 24

Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm 

Location: Room 23ABC

 

More than a decade ago, artist and illustrator Tradd Moore made his comics debut with The Strange Talent Of Luther Strode, immediately cementing his status as one of the industry's most unique and influential sequential storytellers. Now, after a string of groundbreaking, visually stunning series – including Silver Surfer: Black, All-New Ghost Rider, and Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise – Moore will survey his career thus far and reveal what's coming next in conversation with Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson and Editor-in-Chief Sierra Hahn for his first-ever spotlight panel, only at San Diego Comic Con.


Archie Turns 85


Saturday’s Archie Comics: 85th Anniversary Celebration (Room 7AB) marks a major milestone for the character’s 1941 debut, with Bechko, Crook, Patrick Horvath, Dan Parent, and Ben H. Winters previewing new Oni-published Archie titles, including Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Archie in Hell.


Read the official panel description below:


Archie Comics: 85th Anniversary Celebration

Date: Saturday, July 25

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Location: Room 7AB


In 1941, Archie Andrews made his first appearance in Pep Comics #22 ... and changed the course of comics history forever! Now, as Archie Comics prepares to mark 85 years of America's favorite teenager, get the inside track on Archie's exciting new line of comics published in collaboration with Oni Press at an anniversary celebration for the ages! Look ahead at all-new series including ARCHIE, SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH, and ARCHIE IN HELL as creators Corinna Bechko, Tyler Crook, Patrick Horvath, Dan Parent and Ben H. Winters join Archie's own Jesse Goldwater and Oni Press' Hunter Gorinson, Sierra Hahn and Bess Pallares to discuss the past, present, and future of all things Riverdale!


Inside Flux House


Rounding things out is Inside FLUX HOUSE with Matt Kindt & Brian Hurtt (Room 5AB), spotlighting the horror-adjacent imprint’s new titles MIND MGMT: New & Improved and FORT PSYCHO.


Read the official panel description below:


Inside FLUX HOUSE with Matt Kindt & Brian Hurtt

Date: Saturday, July 25

Time: 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Location: Room 5AB


From the mind of New York Times best-selling, Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Matt Kindt (BRZRKR, Dept. H), welcome to FLUX HOUSE – the first and only comics imprint designed to conjoin directly with your nervous system to deliver controlled bursts of paranoia, anxiety, and adrenaline. Returning with a slate of new titles – beginning with MIND MGMT: NEW & IMPROVED and FORT PSYCHO – this summer at Oni Press, go inside FLUX HOUSE as Kindt, his longtime collaborator Brian Hurtt (The Sixth Gun), Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson, Editor-in-Chief Sierra Hahn, and Director of Marketing Ben Bailey surveil their newest, most groundbreaking series yet and reveal what's coming next for the acclaimed comics imprint in 2026 and beyond.


Alongside the panels, Oni’s signing schedule runs nearly nonstop across all five days, with O’Malley, Kindt, Hurtt, Crook, Bechko, Moore, Sarah Gailey, Christopher Cantwell, and others rotating through meet-and-greets—full times are listed on the Oni website.



With Archie, Flux House, and The Forever Home all ramping up, Oni Press is treating this year’s SDCC as a warm-up act for its 30th anniversary. Fans headed to San Diego can catch it all at Booth #1829.

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