Featured Session: Not All Superheroes Wear Capes: Out of the Kitchen, Into the Comic

Event ID: PP1149132

Tue, Mar 17, 2026 | 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Venue: Hilton Grand Ballroom (Salon HJK) (Hilton Austin Downtown)

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Summary

Throughout history, food and art have served as two of humanity’s most universal languages. This panel explores their powerful intersection: how culinary storytelling and comic books can combine to reach two deeply passionate, nearly obsessive fanbases. From the global influence of Oishinbo to Anthony Bourdain’s Get Jiro, food-focused comics prove that something magical happens when chefs enter the frame. Following the success of Feeding Dangerously, a graphic novel about his humanitarian organization World Central Kitchen, Chef José Andrés is joining the Marvel Universe to fight—and feed—alongside Spider-Man and friends. Join Andrés, writer Steve Orlando, and Marvel editor Nick Lowe as they discuss the universal appeal of food and comics, and how the two worlds can come together to inspire new audiences.

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