Pensacon 2025 is nigh! I missed last year’s show due to illness, but I’m excited to be back this year. It’s my favorite event of the year every year. From the Pensacon website, here’s what you need to know:
Pensacon 2025 will take place from Friday, Feb. 14 to Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. The primary convention venue, the Pensacola Bay Center, is where ticketing, celebrity autographs and photo ops, and the vendor floor will be located. Our other official venue is the First United Methodist Church of Pensacola. Most official events and activities will take place from 1-7 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday.
I’ll be there all three days. You can find me on he third floor of the 0Center at N21, between Roland Paris and Rhiannon Owens. As will be the case at almost all of my appearances this year, I’ll be presenting as Tony Isabella because I figure that’s who the fans want to see and to sign their Isabella-written comics. The charge for signatures remains $10 per item.
In addition to signing stuff, I will have two exclusive items for sale. The first is a limited edition Tigra poster by my good friend Jay E. Fife. The prints are $30 each.
The other item: the signed and numbered exclusive-to-me reprint of the first appearance of Misty Knight. Only 1500 of these were printed as part of the special deal between Marvel and me. For $10, you get an exclusive comic book AND my signature. That’s a pretty great deal if I say so myself and, obviously I do say so myself.
Now that the business end of today’s bloggy thing is over, let’s talk about the amazing Pensacon guest list.
Artists and Writers: Andy Price, Arthur Suydam, Bill Morrison, Bill Reinhold, Brian LeBlanc, Christpher Burdett, Dave Dorman, Derec Donovan, Guy Gilchrist, Jim Califiore, John Dell, Larry Hama, Lily Butler, Linda Lessman Reinhold, Mark Maddox, Matt Lindham, Michael Golden, Mike Baron, Mitch Byrd, Pat Broderick, Rhiannon Owens, Robert Pope, Roland Paris, Steven Butler, Timonty Zahn, Thom Zahler and me.
Media guests (and forgive me for not listing all of them): Alex Kingston, Angie Harman, Emily Swallow, Hayley Mills, Jeffrey Combes, John Wesley Shipp, Jonathan Frakes, Julie Brown, Lou Diamond Phillips, Mindy Sterling, Phil Morris, Ray Wise, Richard Kern and many others.
Pensacon will also have a great many panels, photo ops, gaming, stage performances, local partner events, a film festival and a giant vendors area. To get all the details, you should visit the Pensacon website or download the Pensacon app on your phone. I’m too much of an unfrozen comic-book writer cavewoman to do the app thing, but that’s why I have children.
Pensacola is a lovely city. If you’re flying to the show, you’ll be landing at the Pensacola Intergalactic Airport, temporarily renamed for the convention. Indeed, all the airport gates will be labeled star gates.
Many of the excellent restaurants in the city will adopt themes related to the convention or offer specialty drinks related to the convention. Maybe one of them will offer a Black Lightning, a Misty Knight or a Tigra.
The fans at the convention and the people of Pensacola are among the nicest people you will ever meet. Maybe the only people who are nicer are the Pensacon promoters, staff and volunteers. It’s a magical experience each and every year.
I hope a lot of you will visit me at my booth. Even if you don’t have anything for me to sign or anything you want to buy from me. I’m happy just to answer your questions about my career and chat with me about this and that. Pensacon gives so much to me and I love to pay that forward.
That’s all for today. I’ll be back soon with more stuff.
© 2025 Tony Isabella
I look at the guest list and know I'll not be invited, which is the only way I can afford to go, so I am a little envious of you, but I don't begrudge it, you earned your way.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a superfantastic time there and at all your conventions. I lived in Central Florida for years and this is about the best time to go, as you're surely aware.
Roch and Roll, Jenny!