Meet the Theme Night Artists
May 8, 2024
Comic-Con: The Cruise is thrilled to announce its partnership with renowned PaperFilms artists Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti for the creation of original artwork for the upcoming 2025 cruise theme nights. Amanda and Jimmy are the creative minds behind “Comic-Con: The Cruise Celebrates Sci-Fi” and “The Sci-Fi Adventures of Nautalie.”
Amanda created the original character of Nautalie, who will serve as the emblem of the Sci-Fi night festivities. Together, Amanda and Jimmy will continue to craft artwork for the three remaining theme nights, each piece infused with their signature style while featuring unique characters tailored to the theme of the night.
Comic-Con: The Cruise is excited to continue with PaperFilms artists Amanda and Jimmy and can’t wait to witness their creations yet to come.
Learn more about the Artists!
Amanda Conner
Amanda Conner is a multi-talented award winning writer and artist that has worked on many of the top titles in comics for companies like Marvel, DC, and Image Comics.
Amanda’s work can also be seen, in such places as ABC’s Nightline, New York Times, MAD Magazine, Arm & Hammer, Nickelodeon and on shows like The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon. She has also enjoyed a huge success with her husband Jimmy Palmiotti, reimagining the DC Comics title Harley Quinn into the character you see today in film and animation. She continues to currently work on her own creator owned titles as well as other companies’ top characters like Powergirl, Silk Spectre, Painkiller Jane, and so many more.
Jimmy Palmiotti
Writer, Editor and Creator. Multi Award winning character creator with a wide range of experience in advertising, production, consulting, editorial, film writing, development and production, media presentation and video game development. Just a few of his clients include Nike, Nickelodeon, Universal Pictures, Disney, Warner Brothers, DreamWorks, Lion’s Gate, Vidmark, Starz, Fox Atomic, Alliance films, New Line, Spike TV, MTV, 2kgames, Midway, Radical games, Activision, and THQ games.
Co-founder of such companies as Event Comics, Black Bull Media, Marvel Knights, a division of Marvel comics, and the current Paperfilms, where he is partners with his wife, Amanda Conner. Several of his contributions for both DC and Marvel can be found in major motion pictures and TV series including Black Panther, Painkiller Jane, Daredevil, Suicide Squad, Harley Quinn animated series, Suicide Squad, Random Acts of Violence, Deadspace:Downfall and more.
