Heroes Comic Con invites Marvel’s Stormbreakers

Marvel Comics’ elite artists head to Brussels Expo

July 8, 2025

Every few years, Marvel composes a new class of ‘Stormbreakers’. That class is constructed with the most promising and impactful artists of recent years, selected for their style, achievements, and groundbreaking work. Heroes Comic Con managed to convince 7 artists of the class of 2023 to head to Brussels Expo on October 18-19, for a wonderful comic con event.

Elena Casagrande

At a young age, Elena followed her passion for drawing and enrolled at the International School of Comics in Rome. For Marvel, her work has included the current RUNAWAYS series, BLADE, and BLACK WIDOW, which won the 2021 Eisner Award for Best New Series.

Jan Bazaldúa

Jan started her career as assistant of Sixto Valencia, one of the most prominent comic book artists in Mexico. For over two decades, she worked in almost every genre in Mexican comic books, penciling over 3,000 covers. Jan brought her hyperkinetic art style to Marvel on titles including MR. AND MRS. X, LOKI, and IMMORTAL THOR – as well as the upcoming MARVEL ZOMBIES: RED BAND miniseries.

Chris Allen

Chris made his Marvel Comics debut illustrating the movie tie-in MARVEL STUDIOS’ GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 PRELUDE, followed by MARVEL STUDIOS’ ANT-MAN AND THE WASP PRELUDE. The Texas-based artist steadily built his reputation on projects like the BLACK PANTHER ongoing series launch with writer Eve Ewing and the epic PREDATOR VS. BLACK PANTHER crossover with writer Benjamin Percy.

Martin Coccolo

Born in Colonia, Uruguay, Martin developed an interest in art and comics very early on in life. After years of being an art assistant, pursued a career in the comics industry across multiple publishers. In 2021, Martin began working with Marvel on titles such as X-FORCE, the Deadpool series launch and, most recently the launch of the new WOLVERINE ongoing series, where he is the lead artist.

Lucas Werneck

Lucas is a Brazilian comic book artist and illustrator. He began working in the comics industry in 2019 and has since worked for major publishers before making Marvel his home. He has already worked on major titles such as TRIAL OF MAGNETO, FANTASTIC FOUR, IMMORTAL X-MEN and the ongoing STORM solo series.

C.F. Villa

C.F. is a concept artist and illustrator born in Hermosillo, Sonora, México with 12 years of experience working in film, animation, and more recently the comic book industry. In 2018, his work at Marvel began with his first two miniseries, LOCKJAW and SHATTERSTAR. After beautiful runs on series such as BLACK CAT and issues of X-MEN, C.F. launched the 2024 AVENGERS ongoing series with writer Jed MacKay. Most recently, C.F. is dipping his toe back in the work of X-Men across various projects.

Federico Vicentini

Italian artist Federico is a fast-rising star, having proved his flair for drawing web-slinging action with a pair of wall-crawlers on AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and ABSOLUTE CARNAGE: MILES MORALES. Federico illustrated the FALCON & WINTER SOLDIER team-up comic book series before turning his attention to another high-profile Marvel character in X DEATHS OF WOLVERINE. Increasingly in demand, Federico launched the 2023 MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN ongoing series with writer Cody Ziglar and is currently one of the lead artists on the major event series IMPERIAL alongside former Stormbreaker Iban Coello and writer Jonathan Hickman.

Come and join the next generation of Marvel legends on October 18-19, in Brussels Expo! Heroes Comic Con is held together with the Asian convention Made in Asia, and the gaming event GameForce, all on the same location, on the same weekend. For tickets & more info, head to www.heroescomiccon.be/en.