The popular entertainment and comedy podcast returns to San Diego Comic-Con for their 5th year! Moderated by Tim Drake (Funny or Die, Buzzfeed, Robot Butt), an award-winning filmmaker, writer, author, and Second City alumnus. Tim's jokes/tweets have been featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, and Larry King Now. Tim will be joined by actor and writer Austin Grant (Midsommar, Yellowstone, Wind River), as well as a special celebrity guest, talking film, TV, and comedy.
Drop on the deck and flop like a fish because it's a celebration for 20 years of SpongeBob SquarePants! Dive deep down into the making of SpongeBob's brand-new special “SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout!” with co-executive producers Vincent Waller and Marc Ceccarelli. Voice actors Tom Kenny (SpongeBob), Bill Fagerbakke (Patrick), Rodger Bumpass (Squidward), Carolyn Lawrence (Sandy), Mr. Lawrence (Plankton), and Clancy Brown (Mr. Krabs) will discuss what it was like to portray their characters in front of the camera for the first time in this live action-animation hybrid episode. Plus, they're covering 20 years of nautical nonsense, so be sure to bring it around town!
Thursday July 18, 2019 1:45pm - 2:45pm PDT
Room 6A
He's the hardline cop bringing justice to the mean futuristic streets of Mega-City One, but is Judge Dredd a hero or a villain? Is he a law enforcement role model, or, in the light of recent years, is he becoming a worrying vision of the future? This panel of creators and commentators debate the pros and cons of the ultimate lawman of the future.
Thursday July 18, 2019 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Room 29AB
UPDATED: Tue, Jul 16, 07:31PM Let’s settle this inside! Fearless captain Aisha Tyler (Archer, Criminal Minds) returns with a new group of celebrity nerds for one of Comic-Con’s most popular panels. Join Felicia Day (The Magicians, Supernatural), Thomas Lennon (Reno 911, The Odd Couple), Travis McElroy (My Brother, My Brother and Me; The Adventure Zone), Amber Nash (Archer), Naomi Ekperigin (co-host of podcast Couples Therapy), and Dani Fernandez (iHeartRadio’s Nerdificent, Ralph Breaks the Internet) as they debate some of the biggest, best, and funniest issues in the geekverse. Is Darth Vader a worse parent than Homer Simpson? Were you sadder to see the MCU end, or Game of Thrones? Who is science fiction’s ultimate coolest Captain? You’ll vote on all the winners, so remember: with great paddle comes great responsibility. Plus, you can get your own questions argued by Earth’s Mightiest Debaters!
Thursday July 18, 2019 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Ballroom 20
Hear from the cast and creators of the hit YouTube Original Series Cobra Kai, which launched its second season last spring to another round of fanfare and critical acclaim. From its iconic roots in The Karate Kid film franchise to the current YouTube series, fans can learn the moves it took to bring these popular characters back for a new generation—and try to wrestle free the surprises in store for its upcoming third season.
Thursday July 18, 2019 4:45pm - 5:45pm PDT
Ballroom 20
The classic adult swim animated series is celebrating its 20th anniversary with the first-ever Home Movies panel. The fan-fave series is feted with a cast reunion featuring co-creators Loren Bouchard (Bob's Burgers) and Brendon Small (Metalocalypse), plus cast members H. Jon Benjamin (Archer, Bob's Burgers) and Melissa Galsky (Bob's Burgers). Revisit your favorite characters, episodes, and more with the team that brought them to you!
Thursday July 18, 2019 4:45pm - 5:45pm PDT
Room 6BCF
Role-playing game entertainment (or RPG-E) has never been more popular, and Geek & Sundry has been a pioneer in creating much of the RPG-based programming fans love. This panel will cover the range of G&S's RPG-E content and delve into this popular style of collaborative game-based storytelling, fueled by imagination and presented as content for an audience of gaming enthusiasts as well as anyone who likes a good story. Hear from both the creators and the talent as they share personal stories, insider advice, and thoughts on the future of this new and exciting entertainment format. Moderated by Denise Pantoja (producer, Relics and Rarities) and featuring Deborah Ann Woll (Relics and Rarities, Marvel's Daredevil, True Blood), Jason Charles Miller (Starter Kit), Amy Dallen (Callisto-6. TBD RPG), B. Dave Walters (Vampire: The Masquerade: LA by Night; writer; Dungeons & Dragons: A Darkened Wish), and Eric Campbell (Callisto*6, Shield of Tomorrow).
Thursday July 18, 2019 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Room 7AB
Attention, Cloud 9 shoppers! Universal Television brings NBC's hit workplace comedy Superstore to Comic-Con 2019. From the bright-eyed newbies and the seen-it-all veterans to the clueless seasonal hires, together the employees tackle the day-to-day grind of rabid bargain hunters and riot-causing sales, as well as the varied complex issues facing the American working class today. Join your fellow Cloud 9 employees for a Q&A session with the cast and producers: America Ferrera (Ugly Betty), Ben Feldman (Mad Men), Mark McKinney (Saturday Night Live), Lauren Ash (Super Fun Night), Colton Dunn (Parks and Recreation), Nico Santos (Crazy Rich Asians), Nichole Bloom (Shameless), Kaliko Kauahi (Raven's Home), and executive producers Justin Spitzer (The Office), Gabe Miller (The Office, The Mindy Project), and Jonathan Green (The Office, The Mindy Project).
UPDATED: Fri, Jul 12, 04:44PM Featuring executive producer and showrunner Jonathan Kimmel, voice talent David Alan Grier, Chelsea Peretti, and Bobby Moynihan, and production designer Gary Kordan with moderator Brian Posehn, the panel will offer fans never-before-seen clips from the new season as well as behind-the-scenes anecdotes from the making of the series.
A behind-the-scenes look at the popular YouTube channel "How It Should Have Ended" (HISHE), featuring new, unreleased content as well as an opportunity to help write "How Spider-Man Far From Home Should Have Ended." Come hear a discussion with creators Daniel Baxter and Tina Alexander along with the rest of the HISHE team.
Thursday July 18, 2019 7:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Room 7AB
“'Member Looney Tunes?” “Oh, I 'member.” “'Member Charlie Brown?” “Mmmm . . . I 'member.” “'Member all the classic Nickelodeon cartoons: Hey Arnold!, Doug, and Rugrats. Oh—Reptar was on Rugrats, 'member him?” “'Member the time that South Park created the Member Berries to capitalize on the interest in reboots and nostalgia?” The cartoons of our youths, across a variety of genres and sources and generations, often hold a special place in our hearts. They can influence everything from the products we wanted in our lunchboxes, to the figurines on the mantles of our first homes or apartments, to the shirts we buy for our own children and grandchildren. There are classic characters that have endured for decades, such as the Flintstones and Scooby-Doo. There are movies and shows, like My Little Pony, Transformers, and Care Bears, that are known as much for their merchandise as their sequels and reboots. April Fugett, ph.D. (professor, Marshall University), Keith Beard, psy.D. (professor, Marshall University), Britani Black, psy.D. (instructor, marshall University School of Medicine), Carrie Dean, m.A., and Casey Collins, M.A. (Marshall University) will discuss their research and findings from a study of participants examining personality measure results with selection of preferred “nostalgic” characters and shows demonstrating how personality informs our choices of the characters we identify with and follow, often for our entire lives. Specific traits that are associated with over 500 nostalgia-inducing characters and their associated rankings will be reviewed. Additional results and other psychological/personality factors will be discussed.
Thursday July 18, 2019 7:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Room 25ABC
UPDATED: Thu, Jul 11, 07:08PM One of television's top-rated and longest running comedies is making its official Comic-Con debut in the show's first-ever panel. Come see why millions of people love these four lifelong friends and comedians who have turned their hidden-camera TV show into a global sensation. Joe, Murr, Q, and Sal have sold out worldwide tours, their very own cruise festival (back for a 4th year), a feature film in the can, tons of merchandise (including a mobile game, action figures, and Halloween costumes), and a new TV game show on TBS called The Misery Index.Brian “Q" Quinn, SalVulcano, James “Murr” Murray, and Joe Gatto share their secrets to success and how four guys from Staten Island built an incredible and hilarious franchise from the ground up. Moderated by Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants).
Would you date a superhero, villain, anime character, or show protagonist? Let the Ready Set Geek! team convince you one way or the other on a fictional character's date-ability! Alix Catherine (host, Ready Set Geek!), Cole Garrison (host, Saturday Night Geek), and JPG (CEO, Geek Say What? Network) will present a comedy panel performed alongside the puppet cast of Perception Studio (Art Vega, Amber Reeder-Vega, and Danny Montooth).
The network that brought you the Simpsons, the Griffins, and the Belchers now presents the Harts! FOX's new half-hour comedy, Bless the Harts, features your new favorite good ol' Southern family. Jenny Hart (Kristen Wiig) supports her lottery scratcher-obsessed mother, Betty (Maya Rudolph), and her witty creative daughter, Violet (Jillian Bell). With the help of her eternally optimistic dreamer boyfriend Wayne (Ike Barinholtz), they hope to one day achieve the American dream. While they are always struggling to make ends meet, they're already rich in friends, family, and laughter. Get an exclusive first-look into your next animation obsession with executive producers, Emmy Award-winner Emily Spivey (Wine Country, Parks and Recreation, Saturday Night Live), and Academy Award winners Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The LEGO Movie, 21 Jump Street) and the all-star cast behind the Harts.
Based on The New York Times bestselling comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys is a fun and irreverent take on what happens when superheroes—who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians, and as revered as Gods—abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It's the powerless against the superpowerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about The Seven and Vought—the multi-billion-dollar conglomerate that manages these superheroes and covers up all of their dirty secrets. The series stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capon, Karen Fukuhara, and Elisabeth Shue. The Boys is executive produced by Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty, and Ori Marmur, as well as Ken Levin and Jason Netter. Panelists include: Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capon, Karen Fukuhara; executive producer Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen, Jessie T. Usher, Elisabeth Shue, moderated by Aisha Tyler. Premiering July 26 on Amazon Prime Video, the eight-episode Amazon Original series is co-produced by Amazon Prime Video and Sony Pictures Television Studios with Point Grey Pictures, Kripke Enterprises, and Original Film.
Friday July 19, 2019 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Ballroom 20
UPDATED: Tue, Jul 09, 04:24PM Always one of the most entertaining panels at Comic-Con, the Emmy Award-winning animated FOX series Bob's Burgers returns to San Diego with a few surprises in store! Creator and executive producer Loren Bouchard will break news about the upcoming season, and the always entertaining cast including H. Jon Benjamin, Dan Mintz, John Roberts, Kristen Schaal,Larry Murphy, and Megan Mullaly will have you howling with laughter with never-before-seen footage followed by a lively panel discussion and audience Q&A.
Archer, FXX's award-winning animated comedy series, returns to San Diego in celebration of its 10th season. In Archer: 1999, fans find Sterling Archer, Lana Kane, and their crew of acid-tongued misfits onboard the M/V Seamus salvage ship exploring deep space and trying to outsmart giant aliens, intergalactic pirates, and vicious bounty hunters. See an exclusive sneak peek of the season 10 penultimate episode followed by a lively Q&A with the voice cast of H. Jon Benjamin, Aisha Tyler, Jessica Walter, Chris Parnell, Judy Greer, Amber Nash, and Lucky Yates, plus executive producers Matt Thompson and Casey Willis.
Acclaimed director and television star Fred Savage cannot wait a second longer to share the world of The Flare, the most mindbending, thrilling, edge-of-your-seat sci-fi show never created. The Flare, based on T. J. Whitford's classic series of sci-fi book series The Moon Is the Sun at Night, not only sizzled its way into living rooms nationwide but also inspired Fox to create its first ever aftershow, What Just Happened??! With Fred Savage . Fred, alongside stars of The Flare,Shiri Appleby (Roswell), Kevin Zegers (Fear the Walking Dead), Tyler Ritter (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), co-creators Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser, and director Jon Cassar (24) will give attendees a sneak peek screening of the fourth episode of the aftershow dedicated to exploring the fandom surrounding the The Flare . Fred's half-hour hybrid comedy/talk show, airs on FOX on Sunday nights. Screening to be followed by conversation moderated by Fred Savage and fan Q&A.
Showrunners Alan Freedland and Alan Cohen (American Dad, King of the Hill) discuss the project with Blake Anderson and Adam Devine (Workaholics) and the exciting process of adapting this iconic 50-year-old comic book IP into a series. They will be joined by twin-brother artists and writing team Jeremy Lehrer and Daniel Lehrer (Snapchat’s “Highly Gifted”). Moderator TBA.
Friday July 19, 2019 7:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Room 6BCF
UPDATED: Wed, Jul 17, 04:49PM Executive producer Seth Rogen and cast celebrate the beginning of The End. As AMC's Preacher inches closer to the series finale, God's endgame for the universe begins to click into place. Trapped between heavenly prophecies, hellish prisons, and all-out nuclear war, Jesse, Tulip, and Cassidy make their bloody way to the Most High. Whether they can reach God in time—or whether all this carnage is part of His divine plan—will soon be revealed as Preacher barrels toward the end of the world. Moderated by Terri Schwartz (IGN), panelists Ruth Negga, Dominic Cooper, Mark Harelik, and Julie Ann Emery will dive into past seasons that often pushed the boundaries with the most outrageous scenes on TV and reveal a sneak peek at the final season, which promises fans of the comic book they're going out with a bang!
Come for the fun and sing-along as the California Browncoats screen the fan fave Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, then wow the audience with your own rendition! Karaoke signups for individuals and small groups will be available in the screening room just prior to screening. Space and time is limited-first to come, first to rock out!
Friday July 19, 2019 9:15pm - 10:45pm PDT
Room 6DE
Not for the faint of heart! This program theatrically premiered The Spirit of Christmas (Matt Stone, Trey Parker), Frog Baseball (Mike Judge), Happy Tree Friends (Kenn Navarro), and Dr. Tran (Breehn Burns, Jason Johnson). Bear witness to the outrageous hilarity of everything possible and impossible in Sick and Twisted Animation. You, the lunatic fringe of society, vote on the films as they screen in front of you. Highlights this year include the deranged Daisey and Big, Fat, Dumb, Stupid Baby, not to mention a celebration of 40 years of animation with some great classics like Happy Tree Friends and Home, Honey I'm High . Meet Spike, who will be introducing the show in person. Watch for the Spike and Mike documentary Animation Outlaws .
Friday July 19, 2019 9:30pm - 11:30pm PDT
Room 6BCF
The Simpsons is now 30 years old and part of the mighty Disney empire. Get inside insights and secret tips on the upcoming season from Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike B. Anderson, Stephanie Gillis, and Yeardley Smith. There will be freebies!
Saturday July 20, 2019 12:00pm - 12:45pm PDT
Ballroom 20
UPDATED: Fri, Jul 19, 10:11PM From creator Michael Schur comes the critically acclaimed and unique comedy series about what makes a good person. Hear from the stars Ted Danson, Kristen Bell, William Jackson Harper, D'Arcy Carden, Jameela Jamil, and Manny Jacinto and executive producers Michael Schur and Drew Goddard for a forking great conversation.
UPDATED: Mon, Jul 08, 11:01PM It's a Smith-family Funday with “Hayley” (Rachael MacFarlane), “Steve” (Scott Grimes), and “Klaus” (Dee Bradley Baker), “Principal Lewis” (Kevin Michael Richardson), plus executive producer and co-creator Matt Weitzman and producers Kara Vallow and Jeff Kauffmann, who will treat American Dad! fans to a first-look at scenes from new episodes coming soon to TBS . . . plus a few surprises!
Saturday July 20, 2019 1:00pm - 1:35pm PDT
Ballroom 20
Hear from the cast Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Mike Henry and executive producers Rich Appel, Alec Sulkin, and Kara Vallow from FOX's hit animated comedy Family Guy as they celebrate their 20th anniversary! Take a look back at some favorite moments over the last 20 years, and get a sneak peek at the hilarity and hi-jinx in the upcoming season!
Saturday July 20, 2019 1:40pm - 2:15pm PDT
Ballroom 20
Kevin Eastman, co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is celebrating 35 years of Turtles this year alongside multitudes of Turtle fans worldwide. In May of 1984, the first copy of TMNT hit stores and it's been a wild ride ever since. Kevin is thrilled to be self-publishing again, especially in this special anniversary year with his newest projects: Drawing Blood and the Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls . Hear Kevin discuss all things self-publishing. He will be accompanied by writer and co-creator of Drawing Blood,David Avallone and artist Ben Bishop.
Saturday July 20, 2019 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Room 28DE
Celebrate four years of Invader ZIM comics with Oni president and publisher James Lucas Jones, Jhonen Vasquez (Invader ZIM creator and overlord), Eric Trueheart (Invader ZIM writer), Sam Logan (Invader ZIM comics writer), and others. Gain exclusive insight into Invader Zim comics, including information about the fabled issue #50 coming out in December.
Saturday July 20, 2019 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
Room 24ABC
Experience a live performance of the epic drama Mean Girls as a Shakespeare play, complete with Elizabethan verse, iambic pentameter, Shakespearian monologues, and theatrical stage directions! Based on the book from bestselling author Ian Doescher (William Shakespeare's Star Wars), the audiobook narrators will perform select scenes from this cult classic. Power struggles. Bitter rivalries. Jealousy. Betrayals. When you think about it, it's pretty surprising William Shakespeare didn't actually write Mean Girls . Thou shalt wear pink upon the morrow!
TBS and the talented team behind The Conan O'Brien Show, called Team Coco, developed an online comedy club for Snapchat. By creating a montage of short animated clips, they were able to transform a joke into a visual storytelling adventure. Zookeeper, the talented team behind Team Coco's Comedy Club, will showcase how quickly animations can be made using innovative software like Adobe Character Animator, Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects.
Saturday July 20, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Room 11
Cartoonist Scott Shaw! (Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!, Sonic the Hedgehog, Simpsons Comics) once again presents his uniquely hilarious slideshow of "the craziest comic books ever published!" Once you've seen this mind-roasting presentation-which has played to standing-room-only crowds in San Diego for the better part of four decades-you'll never forget such covers as those of the "crotch-centric" issues of Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane, those with someone getting slapped with a "fish-in-the-face," and those Silver Age issues of Batman and Detective Comics with "Robin-in-the-corner!" Scott promises, "My hilarious presentation is for everyone who's enjoyed reading a comic book, whether as an avid collector or as a young patient in a dentist's office-in fact, even for people who have never read a single comic book in their life. Even if you've seen my acclaimed slideshow presentation many times before, when you see their covers blown up to the size of the side of a barn, you'll be amazed and delighted at the unbelievable imagery that is revealed." Scott Shaw!s Oddball Comics! will be a thick, full-color book published in 2020 by TwoMorrows.
Saturday July 20, 2019 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
Room 7AB
Do you enjoy slice-of-life stories about vampires and other creatures of the night? Bree Paulsen, author and artist of Patrik the Vampire, will host a fun conversation about webcomics, big stories with small stakes, and the joys of writing about monsters in mundane situations. Moderated by Claire Hummel (In the Valley of Gods).
Saturday July 20, 2019 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Room 29AB
Based on the feature film of the same name from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, What We Do in the Shadows is a documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of four vampires who've "lived" together for hundreds of years. Come for a special screening followed by a spirited discussion with series stars Matt Berry, Kayvan Novak, Natasia Demetriou, Harvey Guillén, Mark Proksch, and the creative team behind TV's #1 vampire comedy! BAT!
Saturday July 20, 2019 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Room 6BCF
Come Join the Night Shift with the Nine-Nine! Universal Television brings NBC's hit comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine to Comic-Con. The hilarious heroes of New York's funniest police precinct solve crimes like only they can-with tons of humor and the heart to match. Featuring Andy Samberg, Melissa Fumero, Terry Crews, Joe Lo Truglio, Dirk Blocker, and Joel McKinnon Miller and executive producers Dan Goor and Luke Del Tredici.
Saturday July 20, 2019 7:45pm - 8:45pm PDT
Room 6BCF
There's nothing worse than a great movie that blows it at the end. Moderator Grae Drake (Ms. Moviefone) asks you to pitch your alternate (not necessarily happy) endings for otherwise-great films to a panel of judges made up of movie critics, filmmakers, actors, comedians, and other opinionated movie-lovers. You know, like a live version of that Change.org petition you signed that one time! Each idea is ranked on its merits by the judges and audience, and at the end of the panel the winner will be declared and a team of improv performers will bring the new improved scenario to life in front of your very eyes. Does anybody have a therapy dog?
Saturday July 20, 2019 8:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Room 28DE
Celebrate 45 years of Troma and 50 years of filmmaking by Lloyd Kaufman (president of Troma, creator of The Toxic Avenger) with the man himself and panelists Dolph Ziggler (stand-up comedian, WWE superstar), Chuck Tingle (world's greatest author), Trent Hagga (star of Terror Firmer, director 68 Kill), James Rolfe (Angry Video Game Nerd, Cinemassacre), Patricia Swinney Kaufman (producer of RTNH and Poultrygeist), and others. Moderated by Megan Silver.
Saturday July 20, 2019 9:00pm - 10:00pm PDT
Room 25ABC
Pack your Scooby Snacks and join the Mystery Inc. gang as the teen sleuths embark on a wild and spooky vacation with zombies and cat people on Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island, an all-new, original film. Be among the first live audience to see this follow-up to the classic, best-selling Scooby-Doo! film, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, as this new animated adventure finds Scooby-Doo and his pals taking a much-deserved vacation to a tropical island. Instead of getting rest and relaxation, however, they find themselves wrapped up in one of their biggest mysteries yet! Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the film arrives on Digital starting September 3, 2019 and on DVD October 1, 2019 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
Sunday July 21, 2019 10:15am - 11:45am PDT
Room 6BCF